Many people report improved cognitive function while fasting but now we have some evidence of how that might happen. Autophagy, the ability of cells to renew themselves by by consuming then replacing damaged parts, is especially active in the brain during fasting.
The attached paper demonstrates in mice what we have observed for millennia in humans. Fasting makes you more alert, and improves the general health of your nervous system. I await evidence that it can help heal my neuropathy, an otherwise untreatable deadening of the peripheral nerves.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/auto.6.6.12376
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