Funny that you bring up the gut enzymes. Im not disputing that raw milk is prolly healthier, but again I wouldnt want to drink the milk raw that comes from the commercial farms. Im sure a small farm is fine, or even having your own cow, or if you werent picky, sheep/goat milk is just as good. I actually tolerate those milks better, im guessing again, because of the tick bite.

Anyway that article come out a few weeks back about how fasting can increase heart disease lmao. You know, if that were true, the jews and muslims would have died out long ago. Since their religous practices include it.

Come across this article, and this sounds more in tune with my own person experiences on the matter.

https://www.sciencealert.com/fasting-style-diet-seems-to-result-in-dynamic-changes-to-human-brain

Researchers from China studied 25 volunteers classed as obese over a period of 62 days, during which they took part in an intermittent energy restriction (IER) program – a regime that involves careful control of calorie intake and relative fasting on some days.

Not only did the participants in the study lose weight – 7.6 kilograms (16.8 pounds) or 7.8 percent of their body weight on average – there was also evidence of shifts in the activity of obesity-related regions of the brain, and in the make-up of gut bacteria.

"Here we show that an IER diet changes the human brain-gut-microbiome axis," said health researcher Qiang Zeng from the Second Medical Center and National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases in China when the results were published in December 2023.

"The observed changes in the gut microbiome and in the activity in addiction-related brain regions during and after weight loss are highly dynamic and coupled over time."

Right now it's not clear what causes these changes, or whether the gut is influencing the brain or vice versa. However, we do know that the gut and the brain are closely linked, so treating certain regions of the brain could be a way to control food intake.