Fastings effects on our body might be more complicated than we thought.
The findings could help us optimize popular diets likeintermittent fasting, the researchers say.
Scientists at MIT led the new research,publishedWednesday in the journalNature.
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The major finding of our current study is that refeeding after fasting is a distinct state from fasting itself.
But the lessons gained here could certainly better inform our understanding of fasting.
So theyre now planning to test whether polyamine supplements can be used to easily mimic fasting in future studies.
And they hope that these studies will help us make the most of fasting.
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