Originally Posted by MinnMan

One study doesn't establish that IF increases risk for heart disease, and certaintly not for all cohorts. As already highlighted, there could be biases in the study that won't be understood until there are more studies. that's why well-studied connections between diet/lifestyle/environment and disease risk are subject to many studies with different experimental design, followed by metanalysis of those many studies together. And I have yet to see any well-framed hypothesis, in this thread or otherwise, of a causal mechanism.

But it's worth watching and worth further study.

Generally speaking, people are too quick to either fully accept or wholesale reject epidemiological studies that they do or don't like for whatever reason, not really understanding the key roles of replication and varying the designs of study in the step-wise improvement of our understanding.

Shorter: it's not all or nothing, folks.