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Supercharge Your Sleep and Improve Your Longevity Using the Power of Intermittent Fasting & Circadian Biology with Dr. Satchin Panda

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The Benefits of Eight-Hour Intermittent Fasting

In mice, people believe that intermittent fasting means you have to stick to eight-hours. But in subsequent papers, we have actually gone back and systematically tested eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, up to fifteen hours. And in mice, what we have seen is eight, nine and ten have very similar health benefits. So that means mice can eat for nine or ten hours every single day or nine-hours, ten-hours for five days and two-hours, cheat day - they get a lot of benefits. In humans, although people talk about eight-hours intermittent fasting, in some studies where we started telling people, you should be eating for eight-hours,. They'll

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