Can IF Help Prevent Dementia?
Dementia is a deterioration of mental functions. It can include memory loss, confusion and loss of mental abilities such as calculation and understanding language. Dementia comes in many forms, one…
Autophagy: What’s Eating You?
Autophagy (aw-TOFF-uh-jee) is one of the hoped-for outcomes of intermittent fasting. What is it? What gets it going? Does IF turn on autophagy in humans? What is Autophagy? The roots…
Take these small steps and celebrate menopause
Menopause is one of the biggest two-sided stages of human physiology; some might argue whether the loss of fertility is a plus or minus, but few women miss having periods. Menopause…
Losing Fat in the Real World
When scientists are evaluating an experiment done on mice, they’re usually careful to avoid jumping to the conclusion that what is true for mice in a laboratory cage is true…
Paging Dr. Weil
Dr. Weil, on your site’s weekly bulletin, you have a headline of “How To Gain Bad Belly Fat,” and report that “a new study suggests that skipping meals can add…
Review of Fasting Now Available
The excellent review of fasting written by Valter Longo and Mark Mattson and published in February 2014 has passed its first birthday a while back, so it’s now available to the public…
The Cost of Not Eating Too Much
In a study by Yanovski et al of holiday weight gain, the typical American gained about 1.3 pounds (0.6 kg) per year, about half of it during the holiday season. The subjects…
Giving their “ol”: Sugar Alcohols & Erythritol
*** UPDATE 2023-02-28 *** A recent study found that long-term use of erythritol may double the risk of heart attack and stroke, which would mean sustained use is as big…