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Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging [pdf]

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Re: Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging [pdf]

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I was heading to the gym near the Twitter HQ in SF yesterday and saw Jack Dorsey walk past. He looked extremely thin and borderline sick to me. I think he does more extended fasts over the weekend but it’s a bit unnerving when someone in a position to influence behavior like he is seems to be taking fasting to an extreme.

Re: Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging [pdf]

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Here is a different link - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12325-018-0746-5

This is a different article altogether (which may be what you mean).

Here's a link to a webpage for the OP article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S15504...

Re: Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging [pdf]

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>For healthy, non-obese adults, ADF is safe to practice for several months They might just be saying this because they didn't test any further, but does anyone know any reasons why it might stop being safe after several months?

IMO it’s not unsafe. The longest supervised fast was a whole year long. The person was obese and only supplemented vitamins if I remember correctly.

Fasting is how we evolved to eat. We didn’t have Costco and fridges 10k years ago.

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post #4

I was heading to the gym near the Twitter HQ in SF yesterday and saw Jack Dorsey walk past. He looked extremely thin and borderline sick to me. I think he does more extended fasts over the weekend but it’s a bit unnerving when someone in a position to influence behavior like he is seems to be taking fasting to an extreme.

Just as we shouldn't make the assumption that fat people are lazy and gluttonous, we shouldn't make the assumption that skinny people have an eating disorder.

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>For healthy, non-obese adults, ADF is safe to practice for several months They might just be saying this because they didn't test any further, but does anyone know any reasons why it might stop being safe after several months?

I could think of gallstone disease, but I'm not a doctor.
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