Longevity And Epigenetic Analysis

Intermittent fasting, the notion of food restriction or withholding from eating outside a given window of time, isn’t a novel concept. Certain cultures and religions in the East, such as Islam and its observation of Ramadan requires followers to not eat or drink from sunrise to sunset for a month, have been around for centuries. It’s been in recent years with growing obesity rates skyrocketing in the United States, that this style has caught on in the West and has turned into a lifestyle choice based on the concept of longevity and epigenetics (environmental and nongenetic factors influencing gene expression).
The idea is based on mitochondrial hormesis, or mitohormesis. Through many studies, it has been demonstrated that during fasting, reactive