This is the title of a recent documentary by director Susan Styron. Its mission is to reduce the stigma of migraine, often wrongly stereotyped as a lifestyle disorder of nervous white middle-class women. Migraine, in fact, is a complex, genetically determined neurological disorder, the second most important cause of disability, after low back pain. It… Read more »
In fact, it is now mainstream, based on a century of research in animals. Caloric restriction reduces ageing effects and increases lifespan in animals, presumably by limiting production of damaging oxygen free radicals. With fasting, metabolism is switched from liver-derived glucose to adipose cell-derived ketones. Periodic flipping of this switch by intermittent fasting leads to… Read more »
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