Eating less and living longer adds to the hard evidence? American scientists: starvation at critical times can extend life by 18%
In the Ming Dynasty medical book "Short-Life Dialogue", it is said that "too fullness hurts people, and hunger cures all diseases"; the "bigu" originated from Taoism has also been circulated 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 sciences "Nature" adds a modern scientific color to "eating less and prolonging life", and also discovered a less eating plan to prolong the night fasting time, which can prolong lifespan18 %.
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, and the researchers developed four eating regimens for visual comparison.
(1) Eat at will: 24H food supply, eat when you are hungry, exist as a control group
(2) 12:12 fasting: eat from 6:00 to 18:00 every day, and fast from 18:00 to 6:00 in the morning
(3) Fasting every other day: fasting all day 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 programs, only the fourth one could prolong the average lifespan of female fruit flies by 18% and the average lifespan 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 prolonged the survival of the fruit flies, but also significantly improved the aging state of the fruit flies: improved crawling ability, reduced aging-related protein aggregation, and leaky gut geriatric disease. Certainly relieved. That means they not only lived longer than the other groups, they were also healthier.
In fact, this is not the first time that the scientific community has found that diet restriction is associated with longevity, and 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 one commonality: their total daily calorie intake was 20% lower than that of the elderly in other regions- 40%.
However, previous studies have only shown that dietary restriction may benefit longevity without specifying a specific fasting time. This time, scientists conducted an in-depth analysis and found that without changing the duration of fasting, if the night fasting was changed to daytime fasting, the effect of prolonging life was significantly reduced. It can be seen that not eating after noon may be the key.
02. Starvation to prolong life? The suffering of starvation
Why so much emphasis on "starvation at night"? Fudan's anti-aging science team "Time School" 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 phagocytose (clean up) aging and damaged cells. Cellular aging is the first step in human aging. After normal cells engulf senescent cells, the aging process will naturally be delayed until a certain extent.
Having said that, for most people, resisting the temptation to eat and drink spicy taste buds is a very painful thing. Not only that, because everyone's physical health is different, skipping meals after noon at will is not good for the body.
In response to this concern, Celeron, an anti-aging scientific and technological achievement that focuses on activating cellular energy, provides a more effective solution for everyone, which can achieve the same effect as "diet restriction", and can avoid people Suffered from starvation, and the product has long been popular from Japan's Daimaru Department Store to China's Jing & Dong channel. Not only that, Celery has joined the industry's TOP-level cell activation patented Cellrator ingredients, mainly focusing on the cell level and locking in youth.
However, the exaggerated price of its big four figures is beyond the reach of ordinary people, and it is dubbed by netizens as Hermes in the anti-aging world. Not only that, some netizens even named and commented that this kind of technology is a new social game for the rich with "silly people and a lot of money", and ridiculed that the name Celery was specially created for the rich, "to win the time, enjoy the new life", Every word is overflowing with the copper stench of money.
03. Challenge the lifespan 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 the rich and famous. Professor Mimi Shirasu-Hiza's study on eating less and prolonging life is quite similar to the previous popular inedia in the rich circle. Although it is a common way of health preservation in Taoism, it still needs professional guidance, and it needs to be carried out at a specified location. One course is Tens of thousands of dollars, it is difficult for ordinary people to match.
With the continuous improvement of human living standards and life expectancy, the fear of death among the rich has become more and more intense. Singer Justin Beepo spent millions to purchase an oxygen chamber that can also rejuvenate cells for use at home. It is said that he wanted to relieve the damage caused to the body by inhaling du in his early years. Not only that, but now the technology uses lightweight materials for high-speed rail, and it has been iterated to the more intelligent fourth-generation hyperbaric oxygen chamber O2ark. Its main mechanism is to reduce aging cells in the human body and achieve the same anti-aging effect as Celeron. , and both have a high threshold for sky-high prices, which have won the favor of the rich domestically.
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.