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Dr. Satchin Panda: Intermittent Fasting to Improve Health, Cognition & Longevity

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Time Restricted Feeding and Longevity

Caloric restriction, or the restriction of caloric intake, can extend the lifespan of mice by 10%./nThis effect is magnified when the calories are restricted to the active cycle, which is the cycle during which humans are supposed to be eating./nThe average lifespan in the United States is currently around 80 years, but this could be extended by 2535 years with the right diet and lifestyle.

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In this episode, my guest is Satchin Panda, PhD, professor and the director of the Regulatory Biology Laboratories at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. We discuss his lab’s discovery that “time-restricted eating” (TRE) aka intermittent fasting, is beneficial effects for metabolic health and longevity. Dr. Panda explains how TRE, and also longer fasts, can positively impact obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular health, age-related chronic diseases, and improve mood and cognitive performance. He also describes how the timing of eating, light exposure and exercise that ~50% of all people engage in, negatively impacts their health and explains how specific simple adjustments to these can positively shift their subjective feelings of health and biomarkers of cardiovascular function, glucose regulation and metabolism. We discuss how our circadian behaviors, which include our patterns of eating, sleeping and socializing, have an enormous impact on our biology, mood and health and how by simply confining our calorie consumption to a semi-regular daily window, can positively impact our physical health, mental health and longevity.

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