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Interestingly, the legacy of Biosphere 2 includes the recently emerging fasting and fasting-mimicking science demonstrating some interesting healthspan promoting properties. Dr. Roy Walford of Biosphere 2 helped kick off the caloric restriction field thanks to his experiences.

Valter Longo explains that his tenure in Walford's lab as one of the preludes to some of his great work demonstrating that some of the benefits of CR are achievable by using discrete periods of fasting as opposed to long-term restriction, which has obvious challenges of practicality and undesirable effects like emaciation just to name a few.

He talks about Dr. Walford's time in biosphere 2 and how it impacted both Walford's work and, ultimately, his own.

Starts around here around 00:01:45... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PyyatqJSE&t=00h01m43s