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Re:Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old i... by wpietri on Friday June 06, 2014 @01:19PM (#7859150)
One of the things I've been up to the last couple years is reducing the divergence between my life and the conditions I probably evolved for. E.g., much less processed food, reduced use of artificial light that diverges from the normal day/night cycle, more frequent modest physical exercise, very low sugar consumption, way less alcohol and caffeine. To me it feels a lot like when I'm debugging a system and am trying to get back to a baseline by eliminating complicating factors.

Lately I've been wondering about fasting in that context. Not eating occasionally was presumably pretty normal for our ancestors. Have other self-hackers here experimented with this?

Re:Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old i... by niels_olson on Friday June 06, 2014 @01:53PM (#7859369)
I've been eating one meal a day for 2.5 years now. More about that here

http://nielsolson.us/blog/2012/08/28/my-diet/

Re:Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old i... by consideranon on Friday June 06, 2014 @04:20PM (#7860089)
Intermittent fasting has long been a standard staple in the Paleo diet[0] and bodybuilding[1] communities, both for health and aesthetic reasons.

[0] http://www.marksdailyapple.com/health-benefits-of-intermitte... [1] http://www.leangains.com/2010/04/leangains-guide.html