A new study gives more details on how fasting works.
Fasting’s effects on our body might be more complicated than we thought. New research in mice suggests that fasting can speed up the healing of intestinal stem cells, but possibly make them more susceptible to becoming cancerous. The findings could help us optimize popular diets like. In a previous study, they found that fasting can increase the regenerative ability of intestinal stem cells, but now they’ve zeroed in on how this process seems to work.
“The major finding of our current study is that refeeding after fasting is a distinct state from fasting itself. Post-fasting refeeding augments the ability of intestinal stem cells to, for example, repair the intestine after injury,” study researchers Omer Yilmaz,While this boost in regeneration might allow our gut cells to heal faster, the researchers also found that it could come with a price under the wrong circumstances.
“As biological pathways are highly complex and interconnected, the main take home message of our current study is that careful studies should be done to test the effects of any dietary intervention on the human body,” the researchers said. “While intermittent fasting is a very popular diet used by millions of humans around the world and has been shown to have immense benefits in multiple diseases, careful dissection of the contribution of each of the fasting phases will give us a greater understanding of how to plan such dietary interventions to maximize regeneration while avoiding increased risk of other diseases such as cancer,” the researchers said.
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