{"id":100045,"date":"2019-12-22T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T01:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/is-intermittent-fasting-the-longevity-life-hack-weve-been-waiting-for"},"modified":"2019-12-22T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T01:23:51","slug":"is-intermittent-fasting-the-longevity-life-hack-weve-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/is-intermittent-fasting-the-longevity-life-hack-weve-been-waiting-for","title":{"rendered":"Is intermittent fasting the longevity life hack we\u2019ve been waiting for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-intermittent-fasting-the-longevity-life-hack-weve-been-waiting-for.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Intermittent fasting means interspersing periods of abstaining from food with periods of eating regularly. You could skip breakfast and eat a late lunch, for example, or fast all day long, once or twice a week.<\/p>\n<p>The research suggests that intermittent fasting is a simple, effective life hack for solving many age-related problems, but the evidence is far from conclusive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere really is no one weird trick for the perfect diet for everyone,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.ucsf.edu\/john.newman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Newman<\/a>, geriatrician at the University of California, San Francisco told <em>Inverse<\/em>. Science is leading us toward the idea of maintaining some flexibility in our body\u2019s metabolism, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intermittent fasting means interspersing periods of abstaining from food with periods of eating regularly. You could skip breakfast and eat a late lunch, for example, or fast all day long, once or twice a week. The research suggests that intermittent fasting is a simple, effective life hack for solving many age-related problems, but the evidence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}