Nutrition Research Shows Intermittent Fasting Improves Male Cognition

[Yanny18]

Intermittent Fasting Improves Male Age-Related Frailty and Cognition

Article Highlights​

• Fasting every other day improves frailty measures including muscle function and cognition for aged male mice.
• Intermittent fasting also increases the production of a possible anti-aging chemical compound hydrogen sulfide in the kidney.

 

[John K]

Here is the full text for those interested:

Late-life intermittent fasting decreases aging-related frailty and increases renal hydrogen sulfide production in a sexually dimorphic manner - GeroScience

Global average life expectancy continues to rise. As aging increases the likelihood of frailty, which encompasses metabolic, musculoskeletal, and cognitive deficits, there is a need for effective anti-aging treatments. It is well established in model organisms that dietary restriction (DR), such...

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[Don Fairbanks]

Along the lines of something I read a while back stating as waist size increases brain volume decreases, and brain volume increases with an increase in muscle mass.

 

[ali]

Missed off 'in mice' there, in the title of the thread.

 

[silveraw]

Missed off 'in mice' there, in the title of the thread.

Sometimes I wonder if the first mouse to live to a hundred is already alive in a lab somewhere.
Fasting research is so interesting to read. The difference between mice and humans is weird. Considering we all crawled out of the same pond of goo billions of years ago (don’t quote me on that time scale)