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It's worth noting that there's some controversy about the extent of adult neurogenesis in humans. If it exists it's likely at the scale of a few neurons per day
by ckemere 6y ago
It's worth noting that there's some controversy about the extent of adult neurogenesis in humans. If it exists it's likely at the scale of a few neurons per day. Whether or not that means that increasing it by fasting is important is unclear.
- jmcgough 6y agoYeah, a 2018 UCSF study was unable to find any adult neurogenesis in humans, so it's still a controversial subject when it comes to humans. Even if we had confidence that adult neurogenesis occurs in humans, we can't really expose humans to a stimuli, kill them and then do a BrdU stain, so it's difficult to know how well any rat study translates over to humans.
- ckemere 6y agoThe early evidence in humans was based on radioisotopes present in the atmosphere after atomic tests. You could diffentiate neurons in people's brains (after they died) if they had been born before the 1940s.