General / Off-Topic Volume 1 Issue 1 Free to read, Journal of Nature Ageing

[Robin of Spiritwood]

Nature Aging - Aging in unity

The cover image of Nature Aging’s first issue illustrates the notion that aging concerns everyone, pointing to the need for social unity and joined...

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Valter Llongo has a piece in it:

Intermittent and periodic fasting, longevity and disease - Nature Aging

Intermittent and periodic fasting are emerging as important interventions with the potential to extend longevity and healthspan. This Review discusses how they affect longevity and healthspan in model organisms and humans, their connection to major nutrient-sensing signaling pathways and the...

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"Intermittent and periodic fasting (IF and PF, respectively) are emerging as safe strategies to affect longevity and healthspan by acting on cellular aging and disease risk factors, while causing no or minor side effects. IF lasting from 12 to 48 hours and repeated every 1 to 7 days and PF lasting 2 to 7 days and repeated once per month or less have the potential to prevent and treat disease, but their effect on cellular aging and the molecular mechanisms involved are only beginning to be unraveled."

Of interest to space travel, autophagy triggered by fasting seems a useful strategy to combat the cell damage caused by prolonged spaceflight.

 

[Patrick_68000]

For my part, I eat only one real meal a day since 20 years and I do a lot of sport.

I do not have a serious health problem and appear to be ten years younger than my actual age.

I hope my body will resist for a long time to come. Although inside I feel the old age slowly coming.

With discipline, still good years ahead of me I hope.

 

[Gwyther]

I only eat when I feel hungry, and then it is healthy food only.
People now days eat out of habit. Wake up - have breakfast, mid day - have a sandwich, nightime - have dinner.

If you eat out of habit then your body will start to store fats. If you only eat when you feel hungry (which is your bodies way of telling you it needs fuel) then that is more natural.

Some days if I am not feeling hungry, I can go all day without eating anything except maybe a few biscuits with my tea.

As a result my weight is at an acceptable limit, I'm healthy and I actually seem to have more energy too. And the 'bit of a stomach' that I used to have went years ago because my body used that fat for fuel when I wasn't eating as much.

 

[Patrick_68000]

I only eat when I feel hungry, and then it is healthy food only.
People now days eat out of habit. Wake up - have breakfast, mid day - have a sandwich, nightime - have dinner.

If you eat out of habit then your body will start to store fats. If you only eat when you feel hungry (which is your bodies way of telling you it needs fuel) then that is more natural.

Some days if I am not feeling hungry, I can go all day without eating anything except maybe a few biscuits with my tea.

As a result my weight is at acceptable limit, I'm healthy and I actually seem to have more energy too. And the 'bit of a stomach' that I used to have went years ago because my body used that fat for fuel when I wasn't eating as much.

There is a saying :

We must eat to live, not live to eat.

 

[Gwyther]

There is a saying :

We must eat to live, not live to eat.

I like that.

 

[Stigbob]

I only eat when I feel hungry, and then it is healthy food only.
People now days eat out of habit. Wake up - have breakfast, mid day - have a sandwich, nightime - have dinner.

If you eat out of habit then your body will start to store fats. If you only eat when you feel hungry (which is your bodies way of telling you it needs fuel) then that is more natural.

Some days if I am not feeling hungry, I can go all day without eating anything except maybe a few biscuits with my tea.

As a result my weight is at an acceptable limit, I'm healthy and I actually seem to have more energy too. And the 'bit of a stomach' that I used to have went years ago because my body used that fat for fuel when I wasn't eating as much.

Sounds good in theory and I used to do it however it messes with your blood sugar by spiking and dropping to the point I wound up pre-diabetic a year or so ago.

By forcing myself to have breakfast every day (fruit and porridge skimmed milk smoothie) I've lost weight and cleared up the pre-diabetes.

 

[NL_Mutso]

People now days eat out of habit. Wake up - have breakfast, mid day - have a sandwich, nightime - have dinner.

If you eat out of habit then your body will start to store fats. If you only eat when you feel hungry (which is your bodies way of telling you it needs fuel) then that is more natural.

This is highly inaccurate.

Also there are so many factors to consider when you follow a diet, that people shouldn't follow advice on the internet.
Go to doctor or a dietician, it's a personal experience.

Intermittent fasting could work for some people but for some could damage their health (physical or mental). Especially when you have pre-existing medical conditions or disorders, or even trigger ones.

 

[Robin of Spiritwood]

In general, if an organism eats ad libitum it will die quicker than if feeding is restricted in some way.

It is up to individuals and their health care provider how to use the information to match the goals they want to set. A pro wrestler with gallstones is going to be a very different situation from a young pregnant woman, or an old man.

Optimizing to gain muscle, grow a healthy baby, avoid cancer, or extend life are all valid strategies. We should expect a journal about Ageing to focus on longevity, but that doesn't have to be everybody's goal.