I don't voluntarily fast, though I can and often do go up to x (sometimes 18!) hours a day without food (I just drink coffee and barely sweetened tea) because I often sleep too late to get hungry enough or to have time enough to eat once I do get up, which is all rather routine and has been since I first started working nights ~25 years ago.
But when I was getting repeatedly sick over the last few years from peanut butter reactions, the flu this year, other causes, I'd invariably be in bed too sick to eat (or even move) for days at a time, which forced me to involuntarily fast. I think the flu starving me completely reset things, this time, because once I got over it (maybe weeks later) I realized I haven't felt this good in years.
This is in no way to suggest that you or anyone do a fast, though. I'm kind of on the fence as to whether it's a good idea or even of any help or not (maybe I'm just having a placebo effect from knowing what the research suggests). On days I have a big appetite, and want to eat, and have the time to, I think it would bother me enough I could probably not get through it.
I know nothing about fasting and RA (though it was probably an idea I ran by my mom at some point - only because if there was an idea out there about any health issue she had, I probably ran it by her at some point).
But the median ages mentioned in that article sort of confuse and worry me: my mom's onset, was, I'm pretty sure, before what the first line says, and gah, I'm actually not at that point in life when it seems women become most at risk.
ETA: I mixed up mean and median not just on page but in my head. Median: half higher, half lower. So I could be older than my mom was when she got it and still not have it, since that is all within range.
But I think they need to study RA more to quantify even things as simple as age of onset, which is either not set in stone or else hasn't been studied enough (and that's what I mean by it being a "complicated" topic - the more I read on RA and autoimmune diseases in general, the more I see the research is hardly looking like settled matters of fact).
no subject
I don't voluntarily fast, though I can and often do go up to x (sometimes 18!) hours a day without food (I just drink coffee and barely sweetened tea) because I often sleep too late to get hungry enough or to have time enough to eat once I do get up, which is all rather routine and has been since I first started working nights ~25 years ago.
But when I was getting repeatedly sick over the last few years from peanut butter reactions, the flu this year, other causes, I'd invariably be in bed too sick to eat (or even move) for days at a time, which forced me to involuntarily fast. I think the flu starving me completely reset things, this time, because once I got over it (maybe weeks later) I realized I haven't felt this good in years.
This is in no way to suggest that you or anyone do a fast, though. I'm kind of on the fence as to whether it's a good idea or even of any help or not (maybe I'm just having a placebo effect from knowing what the research suggests). On days I have a big appetite, and want to eat, and have the time to, I think it would bother me enough I could probably not get through it.
I know nothing about fasting and RA (though it was probably an idea I ran by my mom at some point - only because if there was an idea out there about any health issue she had, I probably ran it by her at some point).
But the median ages mentioned in that article sort of confuse and worry me: my mom's onset, was, I'm pretty sure, before what the first line says, and gah, I'm actually not at that point in life when it seems women become most at risk.
ETA: I mixed up mean and median not just on page but in my head. Median: half higher, half lower. So I could be older than my mom was when she got it and still not have it, since that is all within range.
But I think they need to study RA more to quantify even things as simple as age of onset, which is either not set in stone or else hasn't been studied enough (and that's what I mean by it being a "complicated" topic - the more I read on RA and autoimmune diseases in general, the more I see the research is hardly looking like settled matters of fact).