Fasting may protect against Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
Reducing your calorie intake could help your brain, but doing so by cutting your intake of food is not likely to be the best method of triggering this protection.”
Lead researcher Mark Mattson
People who fast one or two days per week are at a lower risk of developing degenerative diseases of the brain such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, US researchers say.
Many studies have already showed benefits of cutting daily calorie intake or fasting.
In their new study on lab mice, researchers at the National Institute on Ageing in Baltimore found that cutting food intake for one or two days a week could significantly prevent brain disease and even severe conditions such as stroke. ENTIRE ARTICLE AT SOURCE