A short interview/transcript excerpt in which a speaker asks why the interviewee became interested in intermittent fasting. The speaker (Joy Kong, MD) explains that intermittent fasting reliably extends lifespan in model organisms, can help treat/prevent/delay many major diseases, and appears to activate a dormant longevity program intrinsic to humans without adding external substances (i.e., not a drug or supplement).
How did you get so interested in intermittent fasting? What about it inspired you? So intermittent fasting was really interesting to me. Fasting is one of the only ways that we know of right now that reliably extends lifespan in model organisms. Going a level deeper than that, it's also been shown to help treat, prevent, or delay most major diseases. So it's kind of this one thing that does everything. And what really fascinated me about it was that it does all of that without actually adding anything into the system them. So it's not this superfood or this wonder drug that you're taking, and it's activating these special pathways, but somehow fasting itself is activating this dormant longevity bio program that we all already have inside of us, but just isn't ordinarily turned on.
