Hope everyone had an awesome Christmas, I sure did.
Just saw this piece on another site:
“..both calorie restriction and intermittent fasting along with vitamin and mineral intake, increase resistance to disease, extend lifespan, and stimulate production of neurons from stem cells.
In addition, fasting has been shown to enhance synaptic elasticity, possibly increasing the ability for successful re-wiring following brain injury. These benefits appear to result from a cellular stress response, similar in concept to the greater muscular regeneration that results from the stress of regular exercise.
Additional research suggests that increasing time intervals between meals might be a better choice than chronic calorie restriction, because the resultant decline in sex hormones may adversely affect both sexual and brain performance”
And then she made the following, false, statement
“It should go without saying that short-term cognitive and physical performance is not boosted by fasting, due to metabolic changes including decrease in body […]

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