{"id":199922,"date":"2024-11-21T19:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T01:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/fasting-style-diet-seems-to-result-in-dynamic-changes-in-human-brain"},"modified":"2024-11-21T19:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T01:25:17","slug":"fasting-style-diet-seems-to-result-in-dynamic-changes-in-human-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/fasting-style-diet-seems-to-result-in-dynamic-changes-in-human-brain","title":{"rendered":"Fasting-Style Diet Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes in Human Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fasting-style-diet-seems-to-result-in-dynamic-changes-in-human-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists looking to tackle our ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-isn-t-just-one-obesity-gene-linked-to-being-overweight\">obesity crisis<\/a> have made an important discovery: Intermittent calorie restriction leads to significant changes both in the gut and the brain, which may open up new options for maintaining a healthy weight.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from China studied 25 volunteers classed as obese over a period of 62 days, during which they took part in an intermittent energy restriction (IER) program \u2013 a regime that involves careful control of calorie intake and relative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/is-intermittent-fasting-or-calorie-counting-better-for-weight-loss-new-study-weighs-in\">fasting on some days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did the participants in the study lose weight \u2013 7.6 kilograms (16.8 pounds) or 7.8 percent of their body weight on average \u2013 there was also evidence of shifts in the activity of obesity-related regions of the brain, and in the make-up of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-contain-a-variety-of-microbiomes-heres-a-look-at-a-few-of-the-most-important\">gut bacteria<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists looking to tackle our ongoing obesity crisis have made an important discovery: Intermittent calorie restriction leads to significant changes both in the gut and the brain, which may open up new options for maintaining a healthy weight. Researchers from China studied 25 volunteers classed as obese over a period of 62 days, during which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199922","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}