I always welcome more discussion, even on older posts. Not like this one is that old!
I watched a few Dr. Fung videos yesterday and I completely understand now about the benefits of allowing the “wider swings between highs and lows”. Dr. Ken Barry also points out that we have a gallbladder just for purpose of dealing with huge saturated-fat-filled meals interspersed between periods of fasting. It makes a lot of sense. I could have figured it out myself because lately I’ve been thinking A LOT about how our ancestors out on the savanna must have been eating, but I was just contemplating the rarity of high carb foods on a yearly cycle instead of the rarity of all food on a daily cycle and I missed putting that particular two-plus-two together that way.