/r/FastingScience/

r/FastingScience

22k members
r/FastingScience is a subreddit with 22k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses fasting, autophagy, water fast, weight loss, and health.
Discussions around the research of fasting and the benefits thereof.

Popular Themes in r/FastingScience

#1
Advice Requests
: "What are your thoughts?"
15 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "fasting hunger pains"
2 posts

Popular Topics in r/FastingScience

#1

Fasting

: "Me every few hours when I'm Fasting for 48 hours."
324 posts
#2

Autophagy

: "Thoughts on this new Autophagy and fasting study?"
32 posts
#3

Water Fast

: "My 7 day Water Fast might have cured my loss of smell from Covid-19"
24 posts
#4

Weight Loss

: "Eating 1 meal a day? Science behind this for Weight Loss?"
21 posts
#5

Health

: "Curious if this is Healthy for my friend."
20 posts
#6

Weight

: "Intermittent Fasting Weight loss- EXPLAINED"
19 posts
#7

Water

: "28 days in on Water fast"
14 posts
#8

Exercise

: "Optimizing for Autophagy Healing: A Year in Review - EAAs restriction, Exercise, calories restriction and planned starvation "
11 posts
#9

Electrolytes

: "Will this work for Electrolytes?"
10 posts
#10

Weightloss

: "Ive lost 13 pounds in a month in a half"
8 posts

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Yearly
+2k members(8.7%)

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Last updated: September 10, 2026