More Fasting News

[Berzerker]

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-...enerative.html

I got a 3 day vacation at cfc - my first ever ban from any site, so here I am with more medical news

As people age, their intestinal stem cells begin to lose their ability to regenerate. These stem cells are the source for all new intestinal cells, so this decline can make it more difficult to recover from gastrointestinal infections or other conditions that affect the intestine. This age-related loss of stem cell function can be reversed by a 24-hour fast, according to a new study from MIT biologists. The researchers found that fasting dramatically improves stem cells' ability to regenerate, in both aged and young mice.

In fasting mice, cells begin breaking down fatty acids instead of glucose, a change that stimulates the stem cells to become more regenerative.

Just 24 hours! I think its somewhat amazing fasting has such a long history, seems people have known a long time about the benefits. I'm gonna have to try fasting for 24 hours maybe once a month or more. See if it helps with my acid reflux. I know reflux isn't quite the same thing as GI infections, but it cant hurt. Might lose a little weight.

[ZEE]

What the Hell did a tiddlywink like you do to get banned?

[Berzerker]

its a little complicated, but basically I pissed off some Democrats by blaming their party for ruining the lives of black people with their drug war in the Jordan Peterson thread... Then it carried over to another thread

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threa....631993/page-2

and the moderator used that as an excuse to ban me for pissing off Democrats

Timsuptonothing got banned so they banned me too

[ZEE]

Broken Erika? Zkribbler?

Poly has taken over CFC! (Again.)

[Broken_Erika]

Broken Erika? Zkribbler?

Poly has taken over CFC! (Again.)

Where do you think the Civ2 scenario league went?
https://forums.civfanatics.com/forum...io-league.428/
It's still undead, with a certain undead staff member...

[rah]

its a little complicated, but basically I pissed off some Democrats by blaming their party for ruining the lives of black people with their drug war in the Jordan Peterson thread... Then it carried over to another thread

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threa....631993/page-2

and the moderator used that as an excuse to ban me for pissing off Democrats

Timsuptonothing got banned so they banned me too

It was only a matter of time

[Broken_Erika]

Like i said, you need to present your arguments as if you were an analyst for the Colbert Report.

[BeBMan]

Not that I'm with Trump, but if we all agree on everything someone has to be advocatus beelzebooboli.

[Broken_Erika]

I wonder how long until the American 2-party system consists of the Greens and Libertarians; With the Democraps and Repooplicans being the fringe parties.....

[pchang]

Back to fasting, one of my friends fasts every Tues and Thurs. he has lost a significant amount of weight and brought his cholesterol under control.

[Lorizael]

Well yeah, reducing your caloric intake by 2/7 will do that.

[Aeson]

I think the effect in the OP can be replicated on keto (high fat, minimal carb) diets without fasting, though there are various other benefits of fasting as well.

[Berzerker]

My golfing buddy does the Atkins diet every once in a while, meat and protein and no carbs. Maybe carbs are bad for us. Not the complex kinds, but if we evolved eating bugs, vegetation, fruits, seeds and nuts followed by meat and fish and then agriculture, maybe we're better off without them because our diet was loaded with protein. I read somewhere hunter gatherers experience less pain in childbirth than farmers because both the woman and child are shaped differently. Hunter gatherers are taller and more slender and so are their babies. Farmers babies are thicker and more squat, or something like that.

[Dinner]

But then I would have to endure a moderate amount of discomfort. As a modern westerners this is clearly not what I want to do.

well, maybe I could do a "juice fast" but that sounds like a lot of effort. Especially since Ethiopians and other third workers get this benefit for free simply from their economic class. :joking:

[Dinner]

I recently got a one month ban on a forum because the idiot left wing owner, not the original owners who valued free speech (which was supposedly the whole reason that forum broke away from its mother forum), claimed speaking out against illegal immigration, I.E. people who knowingly and willingly break the law for personal gain, is supposedly exactly the same as racism. Which, of course, ignores that legal immigration is desirable and good and should be encouraged, but making a distinction between being legal and illegal was just not allowed because... reasons.

Some people really are too stupid to live and you have to hope they do not pollute the gene pool.