An international team of scientists suggests intermittent fasting may be beneficial for recovery
With intermittent fasting, a person refusesfrom meals at certain periods or severely restricts calorie intake. Of course, this diet is mainly used for weight loss, but scientists are studying its properties in order to find applications in medicine.
Now it turns out that intermittent fastingpromotes the recovery of neurons of the peripheral nervous system of mice after damage. Animals were injured sciatic nerve. Half of the mice adhered to intermittent fasting - one day they ate as much as they wanted, and the next they did not eat at all. The other half ate as usual.
It turned out that the rate of recovery of axons in mice that were starving was about one and a half times higher.
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