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#066 Dr. Mark Mattson on the Benefits of Stress, Metabolic Switching, Fasting, and Hormesis
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How Does Intermittent Fasting Affect Brain Health?
During evolution, organisms evolved in environments that were very stressful. Cells evolve mechanisms where they actually incorporate iron into proteins and use the iron adaptably in ways that help them cope with stress. And certainly food scarcity is a stresser, and animals will starve to death if they don't get food. But that stress of the food scarcity is actually a motivating factor in nervous systems which can overcome it many different ways.
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