We finally dig into one of our highest requested topics...fasting. Although the concept of fasting has been around for centuries, it continues to gain in popularity due to the profound benefits it exhibits on yeast, rodents, monkeys, and more recently, humans.  There is a wide variety of fasting techniques: intermittent fasting, time-restricted eating, alternate-day fasting, 5:2 fasting, extended water-only fasting, etc. This week, Andy and Aaron break down:

• The various types of fasting methods
• The health benefits of fasting
• The current research on fasting 
• Our personal experience with fasting
• Best practices and warnings for implementing your own fasting routine

 Resources:

• Early Time‐Restricted Feeding Reduces Appetite and Increases Fat Oxidation
• Time-restricted feeding (16/8) in resistance-trained males
• Fasting: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Applications
• Calorie Restriction and Fasting Diets: What Do We Know?
• The effects of intermittent fasting: a randomized trial in young overweight women
• Alternate day fasting (ADF) 
• Flipping the Metabolic Switch
• Intermittent fasting: a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs
• Effects of A One-week Fasting Therapy
• Fasting and growth hormone secretion
• (GH) secretory burst frequency during a two-day fast in normal men
• Randomized cross-over trial of short-term water-only fasting
• Autophagy: cellular and molecular mechanisms 
• Short-term fasting induces profound neuronal autophagy
• mTOR as a central regulator of lifespan and aging
• Caloric restriction improves health and survival of rhesus monkeys
• Calorie restriction in biosphere 2
• CALERIE Biobank Analysis
• Calorie restriction and aging
• Fasting and Markers of the Circadian Clock, Aging, and Autophagy in Humans
• Fasting: Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Applications
• Zero fasting app
• Life fasting app

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