Super interested in how the mice who experienced daily 24 hr food deprivation for 3 months did in the study.
We were upstairs when we realized it was the first ice cold night of the year.
So we went down and mice are cuddled in the cold , and apparently out of food.
Someone decided fruit loops mixed in with mouse food was a good idea. One mouse went and ate. Other one was clearly in roughed shap.
First mouse took a fruit loop, walked it over, and kept putting it against the others mouth. After couple minutes she started eating.
The sheer empathy of one mouse helping another still gets to me.
They both were fine after eating and being moved to a warm spot.
For those interested here is a great interview with David Sinclair, Harvard Researcher on aging:
I'm not against doing these kinds of studies on mice but the only conclusion you can really get is that we should do longer studies on animals that are closer to humans or on humans themselves.
Most probably, weight loss will be less than pound in water calorie restriction.
Also, there was studies on Ramadan fasting and they've found almost two fold increase of serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor at the end of fast. Level of BDNF correlates with neuroneogenesis in brain.