re: Help me out on when to eat....

No im not wasting time explaining things to a troll who isnt even part of the conversation but inserts themselves in it for some reason.

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Very stupid new "fad diet" 

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Is this what you mean by a troll interjecting?

Sorry, I mean "inserting."

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yeah it is, its the new popular thing that everyone is talking about and trying. People might have been doing it years ago, but they werent talking about it. And once all the average joes start doing it, like keto...thats when its turned into the new popular fad thing to do.

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what if I do intermittent w/ low carbs? Am I the fad diet god?

I think a lot of people just assume that because they've never studied something in detail (or at all) and start hearing about it in the mainstream, it must be just a BS fad. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't.

We are just starting to understand a lot of the pathways for inflammasomes (eg NLRP3) and the potential benefits of beta-hydroxybutyrate as an inhibitor of same and the ways it might be a cell-fuel source for people with insulin resistant cells, including brain cells, because bhb doesn't need insulin to cross the blood-brain barrier.

CICO is often a straw man in these conversations. Yes, in a very real, thermodynamic sense, weight loss is indeed all about CICO (and really more the CI part as a lifestyle focus--"abs are made in the kitchen" and all that). However, so many debilitating and deadly ailments and diseases are metabolic, and if you're bedridden or dead, then CICO doesn't matter a whole lot.

And the research at USCw and other major institutions, on fasting to help therapeutically utilize BHB + autophagy, apoptosis, mTor, mitochondrial up regulation, etc is very real stuff. This isn't quackery.

And of course time-restricted feeding isn't a fad. Food scarcity and limited food variety throughout history has meant that people have--for most of man's existence - - eaten in a smaller feeding window and often went days without food. Our bodies are designed/evolved for that way of eating. And but-for things like public sanitation, germ theory, and step-function improvements in infant/birthing mother mortality rates, we'd have much worst/lower healthspans/lifespans than our ancestors.

Yes, some of the benefits, and especially weight loss, of time-restricted feeding are due to simple caloric restriction. But the big picture is far far more complex and interesting.