A Critical Assessment of Fasting to Promote Metabolic Health and Longevity

Abstract excerpt

The adaptive starvation response allows us to survive periods of starvation-a characteristic of the environment in which humans evolved. We are now in an evolutionary transition from a global environment that was characterized by periods of famine to a world where obesity and caloric excess have become a new reality, but the mechanisms of fasting physiology remain relevant. First, many parts of the world are...