Intermittent fasting (IF) doesn’t inherently increase calorie burn or burn fat faster than other diets, but some people do succeed with it for weight loss—and here’s why that can happen. The myth that IF turbocharges metabolism oversimplifies things, so let’s bust that and explain the real mechanism.

The Carnivore diet as the ultimate fat-loss diet: The carnivore diet—an all-meat, zero-carb approach—works strikingly well for some people and terribly for others because of individual differences in biology, health conditions, and lifestyle factors. Let’s break it down.