Intermittent fasting may reduce the risk of severe COVID-19 complications

A recent study, labeled the ‘Intermountain Study’, has found that COVID-19 patients who practiced regular water-only intermittent fasting had lower risk of hospitalization or death than patients who did not fast. The study, published in BMJ Nutrition, enrolled patients from the INSPIRE registry – a voluntary health registry at Intermountain Healthcare (UT, USA) – who tested positive for COVID-19 between March 2020–February 2021, prior to the vaccine roll-out. Researchers identified 205 patients who had tested positive for COVID-19, 73 of which reported that they regularly fasted at least once a month. It was found that those these patients experienced a...