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> This suggests that fasting might have negatively affected the health of the mice, to cause less benefit than simple calorie restriction at the same body weigh
by fouc 5y ago
> This suggests that fasting might have negatively affected the health of the mice, to cause less benefit than simple calorie restriction at the same body weight did.
This doesn't make sense. He's comparing 28% lifespan increase on calorie-restriction vs 11% on fasted, and then wildly jumping to "fasted is NEGATIVELY healthy"
Fasting is a helluva lot easier than calorie-restriction, and I'd take a gain of +11% lifespan increase.
- rajup 5y agoYeah agreed, that Twitter thread is weird. Sinclair promoting his company does seem like a conflict of interest as far as his tweets are concerned, but the claims in this Twitter thread were equally all over the place.
- fouc 5y agoYeah, good point about that conflict of interest
- salmonellaeater 5y agoIn the mouse study, both groups were on calorie-restriction. The difference was whether they fasted or not. "fasted is NEGATIVELY health" is right.