My starting point for this article is this: there are no good models, but some models are useful. In other words, nothing is hard and fast in science. Our understanding also applies all the time, and with it the world around us. And I'm not necessarily saying that having our understanding assessed means that we understand better. Sometimes we just come to a point where we realize we don't understand anything. And these can be crucial factors conveying they make us go back to basics and start all over again.
So aging, prolonging life, and improving health (and appearance!) in old age... It seems science has come back to basics on this. And there's an easy principle that keeps coming up in every longevity study: eat less. Now, there are two main ways to eat less. Suppose you decide to reduce your caloric intake to X energy per day. (NB: I don't know how much X should be for you - it will depend on body weight, physical exertion, etc.) portioned meals. Conversely, you can eat the same amount of energy for an eight-hour window (i.e. eat less but larger meals) and fast for sixteen hours. This latter strategy is called intermittent fasting and the latter's scientific literature says it's the way to go, if you want to live longer, look and feel better. in better health. Thus, researchers at the University of Alabama conducted a study with a small group of obese men with prediabetes. They compared a form of intermittent fasting called “early time-restricted eating,” where all meals were slotted into an early eight-hour period of the day (7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.) or spanned 12 hours (between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.). After five weeks, the eight-hour group had significantly lower insulin levels and significantly improved insulin sensitivity, as well as significantly lower blood anxiety.
Another study compared the effect of eating one afternoon meal a day for eight weeks and reported a 4.1 percent weight loss compared to an isocaloric diet eaten at three meals a day. . One meal a day was also associated with reductions in fasting blood sugar and improvements in LDL and HDL
cholesterol.
I can continue to cite other studies. Many of these are on rats, where intermittent fasting has conclusively extended life and lifespan by at least 10pc (which, by the way, in the rat world means many years ). But I want to bring this dialogue back to the essentials, which was my starting premise. Remember that in every religion some form of fasting is an important practice. Do you think it's for religious purposes per se? And you think it's a coincidence that all religions recommend incorporating a regiment of fasting? I think not. I consider that people have always intuitively known what was best for them. And this intuitive knowledge is reflected in religious texts which relate to something like manuals for healthy living. , don't overeat, etc.), you might live longer and healthier (provided of course you throw away the institutional "religious" crap that has been superimposed to serve the ego's purposes of the higher lessons). Now science is coming in and saying the same selection that religions have been preaching for centuries - intermittent fasting seems to support repair processes in the body which in turn affect health, feel the appearance, and prolong life. Isn't it interesting! and prolonging the service life. Isn't that interesting! and prolong the service life. Isn't that interesting!