Rhonda Patrick· PhD
So, we did, I think it was the first study published, where we asked, are there effects of intermittent fasting better, different, or quantitatively greater or less with intermittent fasting and calorie restriction? So, there's a certain strain of mouse that when we put them on every-other-day fasting, on the day they do have food, they ate pretty much twice as much food as they normally eat. And so, they remain, over time, they don't lose any weight. Okay. So, they're intermittent fasting, but no calorie restriction. And then, we had calorie restriction group. And another group we called pair feeding. But, anyway, the bottom line is, what we found is that we see no studies on the brain. We saw clear, beneficial effects of intermittent fasting on the brain that are independent of calorie intake.