Your health is your wealth

The Fasting Cure Is No Fad



New research is showing the profound benefits—for weight, longevity and fighting disease—of eating only during limited hours


By Andreas Michalsen
Aug. 1, 2019 12:21 pm ET

Fasting is one of the biggest weight-loss trends to arise in recent years. Endorsed by A-list celebrities and the subject of a spate of best-selling books, it was the eighth most-Googled diet in America in 2018.

But fasting shouldn’t be dismissed as just another fad. At the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, I’ve employed what’s called intermittent fasting, or time-restricted eating, to help patients with an array of chronic conditions. These include diabetes, high blood pressure, rheumatism and bowel diseases, as well as pain syndromes such as migraines and osteoarthritis.

There are different ways to go about it, but I advise patients to omit either dinner or breakfast, so that they don’t ingest any food for at least 14 hours at a stretch. That makes lunch the most important meal of the day. It also reduces the time spent each day processing food and lengthens the period devoted to cleansing and restoring the body’s cells, both of which have positive health effects.

Longevity In A Bottle



The Targeting Aging with Metformin (TAME) trial is a multicenter study in the US that aims to enroll 3,000 men and women between the ages of 65 and 79 to test whether metformin—a prescription drug used to treat type 2 diabetes—can delay the onset of aging-related diseases.


Read more from Asian Scientist Magazine at: www.asianscientist.com/2018/08/print/nmn...rmin-longevity-pill/

Awesome chat with Prof David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School and a world leading authority on why we age and why we don't have to.

Graphic shows the major significance of NAD+ to various health aspects of our bodies.
Exercise and diet help. So will NAD+ boosters which are already available as supplements. These are mainly Nicotinamide Riboside (brand name Tru Niagen) and NMN.

Source: Prof David Sinclair's webpage
genetics.med.harvard.edu/sinclair/research.php

further reading: jbiomedsci.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12929-017-0327-y