Extended fasting, including multi-day fasts, may be detrimental to lifespan by depleting the stem cell pool. — Whalespan
Extended fasting, including multi-day fasts, may be detrimental to lifespan by depleting the stem cell pool.
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We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“there's there's this hayflick limit cells can only replicate 50 times and then their telomeres are too short and they they kick off and there's some really good data in it in animals that shows that it over extreme exposure to fasting dramatically shortens the life span because it just craters the stem cell pool”