In 2019, a group of LifeOmic employees voluntarily did a modified fast of 90 to 120 hours for National Fasting February. For more than a year we had been researching and reading the scientific literature on the mechanisms of prolonged water fasting and its potential...
The Halloween sugar high can be scary. Sometimes we find ourselves eating as much candy as we can out of the kids’ pumpkin buckets – because let’s be honest, they need that sugar way less than we do! But there are things we can do to blunt the negative impacts of...
Introduction Intermittent fasting (IF) has gained popularity as a health-promoting diet [1]. It started in the late 19th century with experiments on the lifespan of rodents under the condition of IF. Abstract Background: Intermittent fasting (IF) is defined as an...
In a recent study published in Cancer Cell, researchers in Colorado found that leukemia cells may hijack glucose metabolism to soak up as much energy as they need to rapidly grow and divide. In doing so, they also deprive healthy tissues of glucose. Leukemia cells...
If you have been practicing intermittent fasting for a while, you might have heard that autophagy is one of its many benefits. But what is it and why is it important for your health? What you’ll find in this article: What is autophagy? | How does autophagy happen in...
What is intermittent fasting Fasting is an ancient practice that involves avoiding calories for a period of time. It is a simple way to control your weight that doesn’t require you to follow a specific diet, count calories or measure food. Intermittent fasting...
Abstract Ketone bodies (KBs), comprising β-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate and acetone, are a set of fuel molecules serving as an alternative energy source to glucose. KBs are mainly produced by the liver from fatty acids during periods of fasting, and prolonged or...
Fasting is an ancient practice where people abstain from food (and sometimes drink) for a limited period of time [1]. It’s been part of many cultures for centuries. The reasons behind this practice were mostly of spiritual and religious nature, but people have been...
Abstract Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of human death worldwide. Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved degradation pathway, which is a highly conserved cellular degradation process in which lysosomes decompose their own organelles and recycle the...