This kind of finding is one of the benefits of centralized medicine, storing medical records in standardized electronic formats. It gives a rich base for findin

This kind of finding is one of the benefits of centralized medicine, storing medical records in standardized electronic formats. It gives a rich base for finding out relationships. Those relationships still need to be investigated for biological mechanisms, but when you start with a biomarker to important medical outcome you are able to start the next phase of research with the important "so what" question already answered. Also, I am encouraged that my practice of intermittent fasting might directly fight against the chronic low level inflammation that this article draws attention to. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24886300 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24886300 From this abstract "our results suggest that IF induces adaptive responses in the brain and periphery that can suppress inflammation and preserve cognitive function in an animal model of systemic bacterial infection." One more reason to keep up IF