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by ivanhoe 1977 days ago
There's now a number of studies on effects of fasting on chemo therapy patients, and they all make the same claim of regeneration through autophagy for some types of leukocytes.
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Could you explain how this is used to support statements like:

> I've hit a key milestone in cellular regeneration

What's key about it? In what way is it a milestone? What's the expected health impact in human patients?

Well, if he was a mouse you still would have those same questions in the air until you do the proper blood tests, right?

Of course this is a naive, over-simplified interpretation of science findings, but it doesn't mean the science it's inspired by is bad.

One thing that I couldn't find any research on is what are the effects of repeated fasting cycles (and that's how most of people do it now). Traditional fasting is something you do few times a year, and then you have a recovery period afterwards. Can't find that research now, but I remember reading a paper saying that it takes about 2 weeks of normal food intake to get back to the initial white blood cells counts. What happens if you don't let the body recover and instead create a new calorie deficit stress seems unclear?

> Of course this is a naive, over-simplified interpretation of science findings, but it doesn't mean the science it's inspired by is bad.

I am complaining entirely and exclusively about the interpretation, I’m sure the science is fine.

If so, why not cite those?
Because it's easy to google it, and I don't have that much free time... these links are on a first page of google results when you search it:

Effects on stem-cells: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4102383/

Reducing toxicity of chemo therapy: https://jeccr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13046-019-...

clinical trials on humans: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01175837

I will add a non comprehensive list of relevant papers at the end of the post for anyone who wants to look further into the research.