Podcast: How do you know that? / Intermittent fasting: Eat rarely and grow old
The risk of developing cancer, heart attacks and other diseases is strongly influenced by one unstoppable factor: aging. If you want to stay healthy for a long time, you should above all try to slow down this process. But how? If you believe Harvard geneticist and aging researcher David Sinclair, then one thing in particular helps: eating less often.
In a new episode of the ZEIT-WISSEN podcast, Jakob Simmank and Linda Fischer clarify what is behind the interval fasting hype. Can it help not to eat for 16 hours a day – i.e. no calories between 8 p.m. and 12 noon, no chips or beer in the evening and not even milk in your coffee in the morning?
Jakob Simmank spoke to Morten Scheibye-Knudsen from the Center for Healthy Aging in Copenhagen, who is leading one of the few clinical studies on the topic, with the naturopath Andreas Michalsen and the aging researcher Valter Longo, who have been researching fasting for decades. And in the impossible column, Christoph Drösser examines the question of whether people who drink alcohol in moderation really live longer (14:41).
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The risk of developing cancer, heart attacks and other diseases is strongly influenced by one unstoppable factor: aging. If you want to stay healthy for a long time, you should above all try to slow down this process. But how? If you believe Harvard geneticist and aging researcher David Sinclair, then one thing in particular helps: eating less often.
In a new episode of the ZEIT-WISSEN podcast, Jakob Simmank and Linda Fischer clarify what is behind the interval fasting hype. Can it help not to eat for 16 hours a day – i.e. no calories between 8 p.m. and 12 noon, no chips or beer in the evening and not even milk in your coffee in the morning?
