I am hoping that Michael can respond to this question: If my 500 calories are spread throughout a fasting day, will that interfere with the mechanism of calorie deprivation that switches the body into cellular repair mode? For example, does eating an apple in the middle of the fast day (instead of going 12 hours with no food between meals) send mixed signals to the body and negate the “famine” signal that the body needs to turn inward and start repairing itself? Or are the 500 calories that are ingested throughout the fast day still so minimal, that the repair mechanism is not adversely affected? Hoping to obtain clarification ASAP. Thank you.

Thanks Humphrey, but I am still not clear (even though Dr. Harvie’s studies did spread food throughout the day) on the impact of some food vs. NO food in a 12 hour time span on the mechanism that switches the body into cellular repair mode with a famine signal. I understand that one needs to pick a plan that you can stick to, but my question is a very specific one that focuses only on the difference in impact on the efficacy of the body’s repair mode at the cellular level if the famine signal is blunted by a snack in the middle of the 12 hour span between 7am to 7pm on a “fasting” day.