Intermittent fasting: the truth and the falsehood of a practice with “many beliefs and little evidence” Mélanie, a thirty-year-old Parisian, discovered “intermittent fasting” by following “naturopath” accounts on Instagram. Since then, she has been depriving herself of breakfast from time to time and eating nothing between dinner and midday.

It would quite simply be “the best detox cure”, praised Saturday evening on France 2, Doctor Frédéric Saldmann.