Dr. Rhodes shares what happens to your body during an extended fast and which benefits you might actually feel. The post What ...

In a groundbreaking first for nutrition science, researchers have published pilot clinical trial data showing that the 5-day Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) was associated with increased activity of the ...

Unlike many trendy diets, intermittent fasting appears to deliver real benefits—provided dieters can stick to the schedule, which usually restricts eating to an eight-hour window each day. Dieters, ...

Certain biological buzzwords spring out of relative scientific obscurity and lodge themselves in the popular consciousness — phrases like serotonin, ketosis, or probiotic. In some corners of the ...

Learn how intermittent fasting offers more than just weight loss. From increased energy and better focus to improved heart ...

The liver plays a central role in maintaining systemic energy homeostasis during fasting by mobilizing lipid reserves, a ...

The coming of spring harkens spring cleaning; a time to de-clutter your home and discard things that are no longer needed. In the body, a cellular process called autophagy occurs regularly to ...

A Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi earned a Nobel Prize in medicine after discovering one of the body’s most powerful self-healing mechanisms. During periods of fasting, the human body begins to ...

Autophagy, a natural cellular process, recycles damaged components, boosting health and anti-aging benefits. Fasting, exercise, and calorie restriction may induce it, though research remains ongoing.

As modern life-styles and high calorie diets drive the UK's obesity levels up, researchers from the University of Warwick have found how cells respond to fasting and activate the process called ...

(Left: Mouse liver) The panel shows the Hematoxylin-Eosin staining in the liver from 24-h-fasted mice. Control mice exhibited a significant accumulation of lipid droplets, whereas this accumulation ...