Great article @suesa - anecdotally (i.e. this works for me,) I find the 16-8 intermittent fasting the easiest to work into my life style. I go from 12 midnight - 4 pm each day (again, this works for me). And I have found that knee joint and shoulder joints seem to have less ongoing pain related to arthritis. I do ensure that I eat accordingly and get my calories that i need with fruits, veggies, and proteins, etc. during the "eating" period. Again, to each their own. What works for one person may not work for others and this is completely anecdotal. The science base is there ... seems like there were some seriously restrictive caloric intakes on some of the studies. I'm not sure if I can compare my intermittent fasting with the studies, but my personal account with fasting seems to be that is reduces ongoing inflammation. However, I did not know there was a connection to fasting until your post... was doing it mostly to maintain the "dad" bod. :-)