{"id":252618,"date":"2012-03-10T12:17:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T12:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenesis.com\/intermittent-fasting-promotes-brain-health\/"},"modified":"2012-03-10T12:17:08","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T12:17:08","slug":"intermittent-fasting-promotes-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anti-aging-medicine\/intermittent-fasting-promotes-brain-health.php","title":{"rendered":"Intermittent fasting promotes brain health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Michelle Bosmier<\/p><p>According to a new study carried out at the  National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, fasting for one or two days  each week may help improve the condition of individuals suffering from  Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Researchers have found that stopping nearly  all food intake for short periods of time triggers a protection  mechanism within the brain which also works against the effects of  neurodegenerative disorders.<\/p><p><strong>Calorie intake impacts the brain<\/strong><\/p><p>Professor  Mark Mattson, lead author of the study and professor of neuroscience at  the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, explained at the  American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver that  \"reducing your calorie intake could help your brain, but doing so by  cutting your intake of food is not likely to be the best method of  triggering this protection. It is likely to be better to go on  intermittent bouts of fasting, in which you eat hardly anything at all,  and then have periods when you eat as much as you want. In other words,  timing appears to be a crucial element to this process.\" <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreddyclinic.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=113&amp;t=27561&amp;sid=e916aba6d41215e1f69ca9335fb55d3f\">Read more...<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.india-herbs.com\/aff\/dreddyclinic\/ayurgold\"><span>AyurGold for Healthy Blood <\/span><\/a><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6b07f_2974649792848292983-4134442072118430090?l=anti-aging-for-today.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div><p>Source:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/anti-aging-for-today.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss\">http:\/\/anti-aging-for-today.blogspot.com\/feeds\/posts\/default?alt=rss<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michelle BosmierAccording to a new study carried out at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore, fasting for one or two days each week may help improve the condition of individuals suffering from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Researchers have found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anti-aging-medicine\/intermittent-fasting-promotes-brain-health.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[577503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-aging-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}