This is about intestinal stem cells in specific. And, of course, in mice. (Still noteworthy if you are trying to understand why fasting seems to help with many different ailments.)
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Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity (2018)
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#12Fasting is also good to pocket and limits exposure to unhealthy food.
And good for getting rid of lean body mass...
Re: Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity (2018)
#13Fasting is also good to pocket and limits exposure to unhealthy food.
It also gives body the time to recover from adverse effects of unhealthy food.
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#14Most higher* animals use fat for energy storage and "lose weight" by fasting. This is a universal fact.
All human cultures with abundant food had fasting as a part of their rituals... except for the modern American one... which then spread everywhere through food industry funded "science".
It's not that fasting is healthy... it's the other way around... eating too much all the time is unhealthy. Fasting is the default.
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#15So poor people are healthier? By poor I refer to third world countries, where people can spend a day or two without eating, not in the West sense where poor means eating junk food.
There a lot of industrial diseases like myopia or bad teeth/jaws that they avoid but in exchange they suffer from different but more severe illnesses due to lack of clean water and healthcare.
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#16Fasting is also good to pocket and limits exposure to unhealthy food.
And good for getting rid of lean body mass...
Fasting is not malnutrition. A typical human even lean one has enough fat to survive without food for 30-40 days without significant loss of lean mass. This sets us quite apart of other animals including apes.
One starts to loose lean mass during prolonged calorie deficit which takes months.
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#18What happens if I use this drug to switch to burning fat but keep eating carbohydrates? Where do they go?
In theory, that's a sure way to get diabetes. If muscles and organs don't take glucose from blood it remains there.
Re: Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity (2018)
#19This is about intestinal stem cells in specific. And, of course, in mice. (Still noteworthy if you are trying to understand why fasting seems to help with many different ailments.)
There's something to the whole regenerative thing and fasting.
Best I remember feeling in my adult life was after a 60 day fast. Not what I'd do today, or at least not the same way, but I highly recommend every healthy human fast for at least 7 days once every couple years.
The plural of anecdote is not evidence, YMMV, consult your doctor, I don't even play one on the internet, etc.
That being said, I'm currently on day 3 of an extended fast myself.
Re: Fasting boosts stem cells’ regenerative capacity (2018)
#20Not read the article, but I have few questions for kind folks who read it. 1. Was the study a human study or mice study? 2. If the study was human, how long should one fast for? 3. If the study was done on mice, what would be the equivalent hours of fasting in humans to observe same benefits? For example, rats fasted for 3 days experience autophagy, but rats would die if fasted for 5 days, so that 3 day cannot be app…
> The researchers found that fasting dramatically improves stem cells’ ability to regenerate, in both aged and young mice.
Need a human study to answer other questions.