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Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

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Re: Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

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Post by faichai »

pachico wrote: post #18
hourislate wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A mouse starves to death in 48 hours. I have gone 12 days without food (water fast) and was not even close to starvation. Probably could have gone another few weeks before I expired. I would say 16 hours for a mouse is probably more like 7 plus days without food for a Human.

I hope you don't mind me asking but why did you fast for 12 days?

Main goal for these kinds of fasts is weight loss, reducing insulin resistance and particularly extended fasts to achieve autophagy where your cells do internal house keeping to clean out broken cellular components and repair themselves.

Re: Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

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Post by staticassertion »

hourislate wrote: post #14
Nabati wrote: post #9

16 hours for a mouse is probably equivalent to fasting multiple days for humans.

A mouse starves to death in 48 hours. I have gone 12 days without food (water fast) and was not even close to starvation. Probably could have gone another few weeks before I expired. I would say 16 hours for a mouse is probably more like 7 plus days without food for a Human.

If you get the necessary vitamins and water I believe, depending on the person of course, you can survive for many months without food.

I've done 48 hour fasts. The major thing that keeps me from doing it longer is that it's really hard to do while also socializing.

Re: Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

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Post by woopwoop »

voisin wrote: post #22
chiefalchemist wrote: post #8

Can we get the title updated? This is for rodents.

Title is from the original study.

The title for a news site and the title for a scientific journal needn't be the same. The title here should absolutely reflect the fact that the study was in mice.

Re: Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

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Post by loceng »

mrfusion wrote: post #32

I fast pretty easily from 6pm to noon the next day. So I would be getting an awesome 18 hour fast daily however I have coffee with milk at 8am. Am I cancelling out those last 4 hours? I hate black coffee so I’m not sure what I could do.

Switch when you eat. So 8am to 2pm or 4pm eating time.

Re: Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

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Post by mrfusion »

faichai wrote: post #31
pachico wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope you don't mind me asking but why did you fast for 12 days?

Main goal for these kinds of fasts is weight loss, reducing insulin resistance and particularly extended fasts to achieve autophagy where your cells do internal house keeping to clean out broken cellular components and repair themselves.

Did you notice any benefits of autophagy?

I’ve always been curious if a long fast would clear up random stuff like knee pain (or even gum disease)

Re: Intermittent fasting increases hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

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Post by PicassoCTs »

Im not sure, if what the research here observed is real, stand-alone "neuro" genesis.

Several animal species, in times of hardship (like migration) reform their brains, by forgetting unimportant memories or reduce brain area dedicated to now unimportant skills. Quite similar to a stroke victim, that relearns speech, by "re-purposing" a different brain area.

Fasting indicates a food scarce environment, so the brain might do the same thing every body does - and reduce calorie consumption in all areas, including the brain. So the "reconnection" might just be a side-effect of the "down-sizing".

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