Intermittent fasting has gone from being a trend to a practice adopted by many people looking to improve their health, control their weight, or simply feel better. But beyond meal schedules, there's a ...

Scientists have discovered that when we give ourselves a break from eating – something extraordinary begins to happen to us. Our cells don’t just “rest”. They wake up and repair. They do a house ...

Three years ago, I wrote a column about intermittent fasting. I had researched it and was intrigued by what I found, but I wasn’t a practitioner. In other words, I wrote an informative column but did ...

A session of exercise at the beginning of a fast can help you reach ketosis three hours faster. With Thanksgiving just a day away — and the most anticipated meal of the year already in the works — the ...

Exercising at just about any time could be expected to benefit our well-being, and research has shown how when combined with fasting it can produce some surprising effects, such as supercharging the ...

Researchers led by Congcong He at Northwestern University have found that exercise caused contracting muscles to secrete a glycoprotein called fibronectin (FN1) that induced autophagy in the liver ...

Certain biological buzzwords spring out of relative scientific obscurity and lodge themselves in the popular consciousness — phrases like serotonin, ketosis, or probiotic. In some corners of the ...

The coming of spring harkens spring cleaning; a time to de-clutter your home and discard things that are no longer needed. In the body, a cellular process called autophagy occurs regularly to ...

Intermittent fasting, or only eating food in certain time windows, is one practice that may carry certain health benefits and assist with weight loss. One type of intermittent fasting is ...