Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

There are many ways we can combat aging, but fasting continues to be the best option!

6 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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In this segment of a conversation with Nick Hutchison, the guest highlights that among various anti‑aging steps, the most accessible and evidence‑backed approach is to eat less often, i.e., adopt time‑restricted or intermittent fasting. The recommendation is not about malnutrition but about regularly skipping meals—such as skipping breakfast and often lunch—while maintaining a reasonable dinner. The speaker cites mouse studies where limiting the daily feeding window, even without reducing total calories, extended lifespan by roughly 20% and improved health markers. This practical advice is presented as the easiest, immediately actionable therapy for the average person seeking to slow or reverse age‑related decline.

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What are some of the steps and therapies that can be used right now to stop or reverse aging? So to prevent those scratches on the DVD, what are some of the things that you'd like to highlight as far as things that the average person could take advantage of today?
So if there's only one thing that I could recommend, and there are more than that in the book for sure, but the one thing that I'd say that you could start with today is to eat less often. I'm not talking about malnutrition or starvation. I wouldn't recommend it for young teenagers, but, you know, in your 20s, 30s, there's a lot There's a lot of evidence that skipping a meal each day, maybe 2, have long-lasting benefits and it slows down these scratches. I, for one, I don't eat breakfast. I rarely eat lunch and I eat a reasonable dinner. If you do this to mice, by the way, and just restrict the time that they eat during the day, they can eat as many calories, almost as many calories as a mouse that grazes through the day, but they live, I think it's 20% longer and stay healthier. So that's what I think is the easiest thing to do.