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Slate Star Codex published an article investigating whether intermittent fasting extends lifespan, and found that the research is flawed: https://slatestarcodex

• toasterlovin 7y ago
  Luckily, whether intermittent fasting will work for you is really easy to test with an N = 1 study where you are the 1.
  • troydavis 7y ago
    > whether intermittent fasting will work for you is really easy to test This is only true for people who have something they want to change. In practice that basically means weight or a biomarker that’s practical to measure, like fasting blood glucose. For people with normal weight and insulin response, the possible IF benefits seen in mice are difficult or impossible to measure. For example, identifying autophagy in a standard CBC with diff is experimental at best (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/08a3/bf79055d69da0fe7305255bf3c8a72438d1a.pdf https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/08a3/bf79055d69da0fe7305255...).
• emmelaich 7y ago
  The research may be oversold, but I don't think you can conclude that (all) the research is flawed. From that SSC article .. > We, the authors, conclude that the evidence as it stands weakly supports the conclusion that CR modestly extends human life