How Intermittent Fasting Impacts Longevity: A Summary of the Research

[Quixote1818]

A very comprehensive article that goes into great detail.

How Intermittent Fasting Impacts Longevity: A Summary of the Research
By Diana Licalzi, MS, RD, CDCES, October 23, 2020

Intermittent fasting (IF) has risen in popularity, as numerous studies continue to illustrate its many benefits. In humans, intermittent fasting improves weight, insulin resistance, inflammation, dyslipidemia, and hypertension.[1] IF has also reduced tumor growth, boosted stem cell production, and increased lifespan in mice.[2] One compelling explanation for these outcomes relates to a term called adaptive stress—a type of physiological stress that elicits positive responses. During fasting, cells undergo adaptive stress, which activates different pathways in the body, resulting in a range of effects, including increased production of antioxidants, DNA repair, autophagy (the removal of damaged or dead cells), and decreased inflammation.[1]



https://blog.insidetracker.com/intermittent-fasting-impacts-longevity-summary-research

[cilla4progress]

1. Been doing this for a few years -

Brought my blood sugar right down!

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. I think it makes a lot of sense on the basis that we're ANIMALS ...

And animals in the wild have no choice but to fast intermittently.

As an aside, I won't be surprised if it's not also discovered that the key to a long life is to eat the EXACT SAME fruits, nuts, vegetables, and insects ... for days in a row.

Like chimps do when they find trees with fruits and/or nuts as they forage around the forest. They'll camp out at a tree stand for days and eat nothing but the fruits and/or nuts and bugs that are on it until it's bone dry, along with the leaves, if they're tasty.

I would bet this paradigm actually represents the most healthy way we could eat as humans.

Remember I told you first

[msongs]

3. does mcdonalds count as a tree? hmmm nt

[BigmanPigman]

4. Another study that says the opposite of

studies from previous years. They used to say fasting periodically to drop weight was a no-no. Studies, shmudies. My dad told me that you can get a "study" to support just about anything, same goes for polling stats.

[Quixote1818]

8. None of the latest studies show any harm. If you can find one I would be interested in seeing it.

It's up for debate whether it has any extra benefits that you can't get from regular calorie counting but there is some evidence it improves the matabolic system and prevents diabeties amung other things. For me it's the best way for me to lose weight as having set times when I can and can't eat works a lot better than calorie counting and becaues I have only a 7 hour period when I can eat, I tend to eat less. I'm personally skeptical that such a short amount of fasting can do much extra good but longer fasting periods from time to time have very solid science behind them because they induce autophagy.

https://www.healthline.com/health/autophagy#benefits

All the interest in fasting recently probably comes from this research: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1619876114#:~:text=On%20October%203%2C%202016%2C%20the,in%20a%20simple%20organism%E2%80%94baker's


Dr. Sinclair is a big proponent of Intermittent Fasting and is the leading scientist on how to slow aging. I think the research is pretty thin right now if intermittent fasting helps people live longer but it seems most of the top scientists in the field believe in it. We won't know until we end up seeing how long all these new fasters live. LOL :

[vercetti2021]

5. I did this and still do

I lost over 200 pounds in 2 years up to my transition

[Quixote1818]

9. Wow! That's incredible! Great job!

[William Seger]

6. Does once in the morning and once in the afternoon count as intermittent?

[tanyev]

7. Marking to read later.