Intermittent fasting is a spiritual practice of many religions, meanwhile before supermarkets served our every whim at godly and ungodly hours, humans generally did not eat three square meals a day. In recent years, fasting has become popular in the mainstream, with advocates touting it as a bio-hack to better health.
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Fasting diet a regenerates diabetic organa
These are the cells that detect sugar in the blood and release the hormone insulin if it gets too high. Dr Valter Longo, from the University of Southern California, said: “Our conclusion is that by pushing the mice into an extreme state and then bringing them back – by starving them and then feeding them again – the cells in the pancreas are triggered to use some kind of developmental reprogramming that rebuilds the part of the organ that’s no longer functioning.”
High dietary potassium and low sodium can help improve risk factors for heart, kidney disease
… team explored strategies to educate the public about the importance of potassium for blood pressure control and heart health. Suggested policies include: Requiring manufacturers to print potassium content on Nutrition Facts labels, Promoting …
Never mind the lungs. Air pollution can scramble your brain
A new study published this week found that older women exposed to air polluted by vehicle exhaust and other damaging particles are almost twice as likely to develop dementia. Others who carried a specific gene were almost four times likelier to develop loss of memory and reasoning skills.
Scientists shocked by discovery about brains
… USC Viterbi School of Engineering. The researchers analyzed data of 3,647 65- to 79-year-old women from the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS). These women lived across 48 states and did not have dementia when they enrolled. The …
New Prescription: Doctor Offices that Look Like Apple Stores
After a relative suffered a heart attack a few years ago, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Adrian Aoun got an unsettling look at a health-care system that he diagnosed as an inefficient and outdated mess. Now he believes he has a remedy.