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UW-Madison study shows fasting combined with calorie restriction lead to longer, healthier lives for mice

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say fasting and calorie restriction resulted in mice living longer and healthier lives. The study authors say it sheds new light on how and when people eat can regulate metabolic health. Researchers studying the effects of calorie restricted diets in animals is nothing new. Dudley Lamming, an associate professor of medicine at UW-Madison, and graduate student Heidi Pak were in the midst of a calorie restriction study using mice when Pak noticed the mice ate the food they were given within two hours, going another 22 hours before eating again. "Heidi really picked up on this and wanted to see whether or not the effect of fasting for so long during the day was really contributing to the effects of calorie restriction," said Lamming. "And that's something that nobody else has ever really investigated." Lamming, Pak and 14 other researchers from UW-Madison and the University of Alabama, Birmingham devised a series of tests to measure potential health impacts in mice from eating fewer calories without fasting compared with mice eating fewer calories and fasting in between meals. Lamming said researchers used automated feeders to give some mice smaller meals throughout the day while others were given the same amount of calories once a day. [...] "And so, not surprisingly, when we looked at our calorie restricted mice, we saw that they had improved insulin sensitivity," said Lamming. "But that was true only if they also had a fasting period." Lamming says the improved insulin sensitivity meant the mice were better able to regulate blood sugar. "And so what we actually see happening in the animals that have a fasting period is they use a ton of sugar right after they eat and then for the majority of the day they're being fueled and using fats as energy," Lamming said. As the study progressed, the mice that fasted while on the calorie restricted diets were less frail, had better memories and lived longer than mice that didn't fast while on restricted diets. "So, overall, all these beneficial effects that we see in calorie restricted animals go away when we eliminate the fasting period," said Lamming. https://www.wpr.org/uw-madison-study-shows-fasting-calorie-restriction-lead-longer-healthier-lives-mice
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