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Re:Evidence that overnight fasting could extend healthy life... by ketanmaheshwari on Sunday October 03, 2021 @12:15PM (#28738250)
Why do they even need fruit flies to do this kind of study? How difficult would it be to find human subjects for this?
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Re:Evidence that overnight fasting could extend healthy life... by amelius on Sunday October 03, 2021 @12:34PM (#28738394)
It takes much longer to test this on humans, because of the greater average lifespan.
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Re:Evidence that overnight fasting could extend healthy life... by MattGaiser on Sunday October 03, 2021 @12:22PM (#28738293)
Human subjects have a lot of rules around their use.
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Re:Evidence that overnight fasting could extend healthy life... by humanlion87 on Sunday October 03, 2021 @01:31PM (#28738883)
Apart from the other points mentioned, I want to add that funding could be a potential issue for studies based on human subjects. More expensive and time consuming compared to studying flies.

The general flow of such research is to test various hypothesis on animals and then move forward to human studies only for the most promising ones.

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Re:Evidence that overnight fasting could extend healthy life... by hyperbovine on Sunday October 03, 2021 @01:33PM (#28738892)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_review_board
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