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Intermittent Fasting

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Steve Mount on intermittent fasting, metabolic health, aging and longevity, with a focus on the science. Intermittent fasting is sustainable; I've been at it for over 20 years.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why do our cells age? It's not just wear and tear, accumulated damage. Loss of cell identity takes center stage. A new Nature paper and connection with prior work that substantially advances the science of aging. In the new Ground Truths. erictopol.substack.com/p/loss-of-ce...
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Loss of Cell Identity Drives Human Aging
That’s What Biological (Epigenetic) Aging Clocks Are Measuring
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Your wearable or mattress sensor is giving you your HRV and a "Readiness" score every day? What are these metrics and do they have value? erictopol.substack.com/p/the-big-ho...
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The Big Holes in Wearable Heart Rate Variability And Readiness Scores
A Gaping Lack of Evidence for Health Benefits
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Eric Topol on HRV (heart rate variability) as used by fitness trackers. He is, as usual, insightful and informative. I plan to post about this myself (Whoop vs. Fitbit) sometime soon. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-big-ho...
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The Big Holes in Wearable Heart Rate Variability And Readiness Scores
A Gaping Lack of Evidence for Health Benefits
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Your daily reminder. Like a Soviet commissar, Russell Vought wants to take over ALL federal grant-making from Meals on Wheels to cancer research. We can stop him. But it means everyone taking action. Write to your members of Congress today. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...
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Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees
On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
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Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The editorial: diabetesjournals.org/care/article... The WaPo article: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Tamar Haspel lists 3 pieces of nutrition advice you can count on. One is: "Most saturated fat raises heart disease risk" Her argument: most saturated fat raises LDL cholesterol, and LDL is causal for heart disease. But what about people whose LDL cholesterol is in the healthy range? wapo.st/3O10Xds
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Column | Nutrition advice is often unreliable. Here are 3 things you can count on.
Most dietary guidance relies on lousy evidence. How are we supposed to know what to eat?
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This YouTube by Michael Breus, is very informative about waking up at night, but is includes some advice that isn't right, at least not for me. I'll address six points in my replies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpdR...
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How to fall back asleep in the middle of the night
YouTube video by Sleep Doctor
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I wake up most mornings at 3 or 4, and sometimes lay awake for long time. Anahad O'Conner at the Washington Post has exactly the same sort of insomnia! www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... Most of his piece references Michael Breus, "The Sleep Doctor." I'll talk about his advice in my next post.
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5 tips for when you’re wide awake at 3 a.m.
Middle-of-the-night insomnia is common. These techniques might help.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A blockbuster expose by @jeneeninterlandi.bsky.social on RFK's CDC. Read it. Get angry. And get on the phones to your elected members of Congress. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside the Turmoil at RFK Jr.’s CDC, as Told by Current and Former Employees
Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable.
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Alternate day fasting (which I've done for 21 yrs) seems best. "more substantial weight losses ... accompanied by reductions in visceral fat and cardiometabolic improvements." "lowered total cholesterol, triglycerides, and non-high density lipoprotein" www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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Intermittent fasting strategies and their effects on body weight and other cardiometabolic risk factors: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials
Objective To assess the effect of intermittent fasting diets, with continuous energy restriction or unrestricted (ad-libitum) diets on intermediate cardiometabolic outcomes from randomised clinical ...
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This is a very important story. The government essentially censored news reports about a taxpayer-funded study because they feared that it might reflect badly on RFK Jr.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
On the cyclic benefits of intermittent fasting and metabolic switching, this is an outstanding new perspective @naturemetabolism.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Varady remains unconvinced of effects independent of calorie restriction. “... I don’t think that there are any benefits ... beyond weight loss,” she says. Mattson is equally sure of the opposite: “... considerable evidence of benefits ... that cannot be explained by reduction in calorie intake.”"
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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Everything you ever wanted to know about the science behind intermittent fasting… as always, many questions remain open but there are suggestions that its effects might not be simply a function of calorie restriction… 🧪 @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Fasting for weight loss is all the rage: what are the health benefits?
Intermittent fasting has gained a following, in part because of tantalizing hints that it can boost cognition, fend off cancer and even slow ageing.
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If you are a scientist, or a nutritionist who follows the science, and you think beef tallow is healthier than seed oils, or if you just avoid seed oils, tell me why. I'm looking for citations.
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Wake up and drink your coffee! "Lower risks of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality were observed in people who mostly drank coffee in the morning." If you keep drinking coffee all day, not so much. www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...
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Coffee Drinking Tied to Better Survival, but Timing Matters
Lower risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality observed only among morning drinkers
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
There is no scenario where RFK Jr should be anywhere near HHS. Reporters, pundits and politicians trying to normalize this nomination are complicit in the coming disaster his rise represents. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Thousands of doctors urge Senate to block RFK Jr. as health secretary for Trump administration
Their letter calls the choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is known for promoting false medical claims, “a slap in the face” to health care professionals.
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) have beneficial health effects, are produced by microbial metabolism and are unique acyl lysine histone marks. These papers show that the last bit is important; it's a mechanism by which the microbiome alters gene expression.
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Interest in intermittent fasting appears to be lessening. There is an annual peak in Google searches right around this time of year, with the highest being 2020. Maybe this reflects the fact that most people already know what they want to know.
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I would favor allowing states to decide. Maybe Illinois wants to be Eastern with no time change, Alaska wants a time change, Florida wants Atlantic time (aka Eastern with permanent daylight savings). Let them.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
And you want something to do? WRITE AND CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW.
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The cardioprotective and anti-arthritic consequences of fasting are reported to depend on spermidine, acting via autophagy induction and hypusination of the translation regulator eIF5A. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spermidine is essential for fasting-mediated autophagy and longevity - Nature Cell Biology
Hofer et al. show that fasting promotes the synthesis of spermidine, which stimulates eIF5A hypusination to induce autophagy and increase lifespan in various species in a conserved manner.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
And now this. My father had polio when he was a child in the 1930s. He thankfully survived. Many did not. This is, well, evil. Let's not mince words. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
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Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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Adult single-nucleus neuronal transcriptomes of insulin signaling mutants reveal regulators of behavior and learning
St. Ange et al. provide a single-nucleus RNA sequencing atlas of adult wild-type and IIS mutant Caenorhabditis elegans neurons, identifying genes that turn on from L4 to adulthood, including GPCRs. Functional behavior experiments revealed the roles of genes expressed in single neurons, including previously unidentified IIS targets.
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Changes in RNA structure (3' UTR, alternative splicing) and base modifications with age in C. elegans, a new paper from Schiksnis et al. (Pasquinelli lab) This new paper is at the intersection of my core scientific interest (RNA processing) and aging. academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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Full-length direct RNA sequencing reveals extensive remodeling of RNA expression, processing and modification in aging Caenorhabditis elegans
Abstract. Organismal aging is marked by decline in cellular function and anatomy, ultimately resulting in death. To inform our understanding of the mechani
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This was on the first page of the print Washington Post today. It's a long article about research into the way different organs age at different rates. These ages can be inferred from plasma proteins. People are described as 'heart agers' or 'brain youthers'.
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Intermittent Fasting @ifdiet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is striking: "the effect of combined lifestyle interventions on type 2 diabetes risk partly persisted for many years after the intervention was withdrawn"
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Lamming Lab @lamminglab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Pleased to announce the publication of our new manuscript, "Late-life protein or isoleucine restriction impacts physiological and molecular signatures of aging" in Nature Aging today! www.nature.com/articles/s43... Free link: rdcu.be/d1DGk
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Late-life protein or isoleucine restriction impacts physiological and molecular signatures of aging - Nature Aging
Yeh et al. explore the effects of restricting dietary protein, or isoleucine specifically, in aged mice. They uncover benefits to metabolic health and certain indicators of aging and a sexually dimorp...
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Agingdoc⭐David Barzilai🔔MD PhD, MS, MBA, DipABLM @agingdoc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
SHADES OF BLUE Blue zones, supposed havens of longevity, have become a global brand. But skeptics think they rest on shaky science www.science.org/content/arti...
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Do ‘blue zones,’ supposed havens of longevity, rest on shaky science?
Critics say extraordinary life spans reflect faulty record keeping, not healthy lifestyles
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Alan Gerber @alangerber.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.
Figure showing the chromatographic resolution of the three nuclear DNA-dependent RNA polymerases from
Sea urchin embryos (Bob Roeder, 18 Feb 1969).
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Peter Sudmant @psudmant.bsky.social · 16/09/2023
New review from grad student Stacy Li, postdoc Manny Vazquez, and I www.cell.com/trends/genet... - super proud of their hard work!
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