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What is long term starvation in this context? Is a week already long term? The second point also goes against what I recall reading about cancer in calorie-rest
by joycian 8y ago
What is long term starvation in this context? Is a week already long term? The second point also goes against what I recall reading about cancer in calorie-restricted animals (I may be wrong).
The basal metabolic rate angle is interesting, did not directly come to mind.
- Retric 8y ago3 weeks at 50% calorie restriction = 5% skeletal muscle loss. This true even though it was surrounded by 3 weeks of 50% calorie surplus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26399868/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26399868/