Eat less and live longer to add ironclad evidence? American scientists: Starvation at critical times can prolong life by 18%
The Ming Dynasty medical book "Short Life Tiao Bian" said that "overeating hurts people, and starvation cures all diseases"; "Bigu" originated from Taoism has also been passed down for more than 3,000 years. These ancient wisdoms from our ancestors seem to tell us that eating less or not eating is good for health and even prolongs life.
Not only that, a study published in the top journal of biological science "Nature" added modern scientific color to "eating less and prolonging life", and discovered a less-eating plan that prolongs the time of fasting at night, which can prolong life by 18 years %.
01. Eat less to prolong life? Not eating after lunch is the key
The study was led by Mimi Shirasu-Hiza's team at Columbia University in the United States. The researchers developed four eating schemes for visual comparison.
(1) Eating at will: 24H food supply, eat when hungry, exists as a control group
(2) Fasting at 12:12: eat from 6:00 to 18:00 every day, and fast from 18:00 to 6:00 am
(3) Fasting every other day: Fasting all day for one day, eating normally all day the next day, cross cycle
(4) Do not eat after noon the next day: fast from 12:00 noon to 8:00 the next day, then eat normally, and fast again at noon on the third day.
The results of the study showed that among all the schemes, only the fourth one, not eating after noon every other day, can extend the average life span of female fruit flies by 18%, and the average life span of male fruit flies by 13%.
Not only that, the researchers were surprised to find that not eating after noon every other day not only prolongs the survival period of Drosophila, but also significantly improves the aging state of Drosophila: the crawling ability is improved, the aggregation of proteins related to aging is reduced, and the leaky gut senile disease is improved. It must be relieved. In other words, they not only survived longer than the other groups, but they were also healthier.
In fact, this is not the first time that the scientific community has discovered that restricting diet is related to longevity. Some scientists have even discovered this phenomenon in humans.
In 2018, a study in "Cell" stated that after an in-depth study of the diets of 1,000 centenarians in Okinawa, Japan, they found a commonality: their daily total calorie intake was 20% lower than that of elderly people in other regions- 40%.
However, previous studies only proved that restricting diet may be beneficial to longevity, and did not specify the specific fasting time. However, the scientists conducted an in-depth analysis this time. Without changing the fasting time, if the nighttime fasting is changed to the daytime fasting, the life extension effect will be significantly reduced. It can be seen that not eating after noon may be the key.
02. Hunger prolongs life? But the suffering of hunger is unbearable
Why so much emphasis on "starving at night"? Fudan's anti-aging science team "Shiguangpai" gave an explanation for this problem. In the state of starvation at night, the human body will automatically trigger a function called "autophagy", that is, normal cells will quietly swallow (clean up) aging and damaged cells. Cell aging is the first step in human aging. After normal cells phagocytose senescent cells, the aging process will naturally be delayed to a certain extent.
Having said that, for most people, it is a very painful thing to resist the temptation of eating delicious food and drinking spicy taste buds. Not only that, but due to the different levels of health of each person, it is not good for the body to skip lunch at will.
In response to this concern, Sailorui, an anti-aging scientific and technological achievement that focuses on activating cell energy, provides a more effective solution for everyone, which can achieve the same effect as "diet restriction" and can prevent people from aging. Suffering from starvation, and the result has already been popular from Japan's Daimaru Department Store to China's J&D channel. Not only that, Cellar has added the industry's top-level cell activation patented Cellrator ingredient, which mainly focuses on the cell level and locks in youth.
However, its exaggerated four-digit price is beyond the reach of ordinary people, and it is dubbed the Hermes of the anti-aging industry by netizens. Not only that, some netizens even named and commented that this kind of technology is a new type of social game for rich people who are "stupid and rich". Every word is filled with the stench of money.
03. Challenge the life ceiling?
Time is the only fair resource in the world, but "borrowing another 500 years" from the sky seems to have become an exclusive game for celebrities and rich people. The above-mentioned research on prolonging life by eating less food by Professor Mimi Shirasu-Hiza is quite similar to the bigu popular in the rich circle before. Although it is a common way of health preservation in Taoism, it still needs the guidance of professionals, and it must be carried out in a prescribed place. One course is Tens of thousands of yuan, ordinary people can hardly hold a candle to.
With the continuous improvement of human living standards and life expectancy, the rich people's fear of death has become more and more intense. Singer Justin Beebo spent several million to buy an oxygen chamber that can also rejuvenate cells and use it at home. It is said that he wanted to relieve the damage caused to his body by inhaling du in his early years. Not only that, but now the technology adopts the lightweight material of high-speed rail, and it has been iterated to the smarter fourth-generation hyperbaric oxygen chamber O2ark. Its main mechanism is to reduce the aging cells in the human body and achieve the same anti-aging effect as Celery , and both have sky-high prices, and have won the favor of rich people in China.
However, although most anti-aging technologies are still out of reach today, we have every reason to believe that the cost will gradually drop in the near future, and every ordinary person can benefit from it.