If most people in the study don’t have high blood sugar to begin with, intermittent fasting doesn’t make much of a difference in their long-term average blood sugar.

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The study found that intermittent fasting lowered HbA1c (a key blood sugar marker) in people with metabolic syndrome—even those without severe diabetes—so it does improve blood sugar control, which is the opposite of what the claim says.

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DOI: 10.1155/2022/6999907

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