Eat Stop Eat style of flexible intermittent fasting is not only an effective way to lose body fat, but new research suggests it may help with Cognition and Brain Function in later life through its role in preventing Obesity.
New Research from University of California in Los Angeles has shown that key regions in the brain are smaller in older people who are obese compared to older people who are lean.
This ‘Brain Shrinkage’ can make their brains ‘look’ up to 16 years older than their true age. What’s worse, because brain shrinkage is linked to dementia, this adds evidence to the theory that being overweight may increase a persons risk of developing a brain condition later in life.
This new research suggests that body fat levels may be linked directly to brain shrinkage. Adding more strength to the suggestion that one of the keys to a longer life with a higher quality of life is to maintain a healthy body weight.
And while this research did not study the effects of fasting directly, flexible intermittent fasting is one of the easiest ways to prevent obesity especially when combined with resistance training.
Eat Stop Eat style flexible intermittent fasting offers additional benefits as it can increase the secretion of human growth hormone (HGH for short). HGH also seems to play an important role in brain health.
HGH plays a role in a process called neurogenesis, which is how the brain creates new cell growth. When HGH levels drop in old age, so does neurogenesis, this leads to less cell production and general memory decline.
Elderly patients treated with synthetic growth hormones have experienced improved memory in clinical research trials.
So there are two important take away messages here.
1) Keeping a leaner bodyweight throughout your life is beneficial for brain health.
2) Finding a way to stimulate growth hormone release will have an added benefit to brain health on top of a lean body.
Eat Stop Eat is an easy and effective way to get both the benefit of weight loss AND growth hormone in one step.
There’s nothing to lose (besides body fat) and everything to gain.
Start the Eat Stop Eat lifestyle today and see for yourself how easy it is.
