AruraDangJoined: 10 Jun 2005
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Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:05 am Reply with quote
What do you know about fasting for healht? is it healthy? Research with mice shows that insulin tolerance is increased when mice eat and fast every day, but human and mice are very different. What do you think?
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Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:09 am Reply with quote
AruraDang wrote:
What do you know about fasting for healht? is it healthy? Research with mice shows that insulin tolerance is increased when mice eat and fast every day, but human and mice are very different. What do you think?
Can you describe this more specifically? What exactly does mice do?
AruraDangJoined: 10 Jun 2005
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Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:44 am Reply with quote
The starve the mices one day and give them double the amount of food the next day, and they continue to alternate fasting and feeding. And when measuring the levels of glucose the mices going through this treatment tolerate glucose tolerance tests better than those mices who aren't.
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Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:25 pm Reply with quote
AruraDang wrote:
Research with mice shows that insulin tolerance is increased when mice eat and fast every day, but human and mice are very different. What do you think?
Ok, another question. Is this a part of diabetes research? Also does this research suggest that mice do not need to take so much insulin?
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Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:22 pm Reply with quote
I think you need to be very wary about translating what happens to mice as though it were the same that happens to humans.
Aaron
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Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:21 pm Reply with quote
Some research findings are pretty interesting, but this research doesn't sound so fascinating.
