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 ...

Recent research at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), at the Paris Cité University, and at the University of Graz ...

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 ...

Fasting triggers autophagy in our body. The body switches on the waste disposal system in the cells and gains new energy. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne ...

Diabetic mellitus (DM), a chronic, metabolic disease, is currently considered the seventh leading cause of death worldwide 1,2. In addition to causing many other diseases such as cardiovascular ...

One of the most influential reviews on the subject was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2019 by researchers including Valter Longo and Mark Mattson.

(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 ...

Switching to normal diet (ND) is the regular therapy for high-fat diet (HFD)-induced nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Intermittent fasting (IF) is a unique treatment which may exhibits better ...

As the world population has grown older, Alzheimer's disease has become increasingly common. Alzheimer's disease is the most prevalent form of dementia. Dementia is a term used to describe a range of ...

Millions of people practice intermittent fasting for weight loss and better health, but research suggests the truth may be ...