The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Your brain, your body... Yeah, your brain prioritizes nutrients in the brain over it. It basically protects your body. So if you take an animal and you fast it for two days, a mouse, it loses a lot of weight, 25% of its weight. And now you take every single tissue and you weigh it, every tissue has shrunk. Except the brain. Some, like the thymus, have shrunk ridiculously. The kidney shrinks, which you wouldn't expect. The heart shrinks. The brain, nothing.
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The brain, nothing. Now, clearly, probably, in a mouse, you can't do that extrema fast. And so the body protects the brain from a nutrient point of view, yet mTRG1 activity is high there.
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