While I don't doubt the story, the video's title is misleading. The issue is not with intermittent fasting per-se but instead how she broke her fast. Any extended fast needs to be broken with healthy foods, and for those to be taken gradually into the body to get it used to it. I've done extended fasts without ever experiencing any issues, so this isn't something that happens "if you take intermittent fasting too far" but rather "if you don't properly reintroduce foods" after a fast.
Great way to highlight refeeding syndrome, especially in this time when people are doing all types of fasting, some to the extreme!
While I don't doubt the story, the video's title is misleading. The issue is not with intermittent fasting per-se but instead how she broke her fast. Any extended fast needs to be broken with healthy foods, and for those to be taken gradually into the body to get it used to it. I've done extended fasts without ever experiencing any issues, so this isn't something that happens "if you take intermittent fasting too far" but rather "if you don't properly reintroduce foods" after a fast.
Interesting. I didn't know overdoing intermittent fasting could be so dangerous!
I really feel it was the unthinking way the individual broke their fast which was probably most harmful