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Can Intermittent Fasting Change How Your DNA Works?

Can Intermittent Fasting Change How Your DNA Works?

Fasting has known heart, cognitive and metabolic benefits, which may result from an impact on the circadian clock found in nearly every cell.

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

  • A 2023 animal study showed how limiting food to the hours of the day when you are most active may alter up to 80% of genetic expression in multiple organ systems

  • Activation of these pathways may help explain how fasting improves health and longevity. Roughly 40% of genetic expression in the hypothalamus, pancreas and adrenal glands was a…

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