Category: Video

This video goes into some of the mechanisms by which fasting is good for your brain.

From the video description: Mark Mattson is the current Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging. He is also a professor of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University. Mattson is one of the foremost researchers in the area of cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Interesting video on how to avoid/remove loose skin from big weight loss or gain. This is relevant in this blog both because it talks about fasting, and also because if you need to lose weight fasting is probably a very good idea.

Some of the suggested items that help:

• Vitamin C
• Berries
• Garlic
• Green tea
• Ginger
• Curcumin
• Fasting in general – because of autophagy

Pretty good video about fasting. For the skeptics, the bit at 21:20 address the old myth about fasting taking you into starvation mode, and a little later about muscle loss.

I also have to say I really like the simple refrigerator/freezer metaphor he uses to explain how the carb/fat usage and storage works.