Re: what about fasting periodically, and/or overall CR?/Welcome

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on 5/4/2004 9:50 AM, hermitlobster at hermitlobster@... wrote:

> I've just joined, and perhaps this issue is already well discussed.

> But it wasn't mentioned in today's Washington Post article, and yet

> I've read something about it somewhere -

>

> namely, an extension of the " eustress " hypothesis - restricted

> caloric intake being beneficial even if not prolonged - I seem to

> recall an experiment in which the subject animals fasted one day,

> then ate ad libitum the next day, and on and on - my memory is that

> although they weren't as thin as the constant CR group, they lived

> about as long -

>

> has this been discussed here, and is anybody trying it for themselves?