Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Fasting for Longevity: Unlock Health & Lifespan Secrets #shorts

2 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker asserts that fasting is one of the few interventions reliably shown to extend lifespan in animal studies. He expands the claim by stating that fasting also appears to treat, prevent, or delay a wide range of major human diseases—including cardiovascular, autoimmune, cancer, and neurodegenerative disorders—based on deeper research findings. The overall message is that fasting is a uniquely broad, evidence‑backed tool for health and longevity.

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Most things don't help to actually extend lifespan, but something that always does and is kind of one of the only ways that we know of to reliably do it is fasting. Hmm. And not only can it extend lifespan in animal models, but when you dive deeper into the research, it also helps to treat, prevent, or delay most major diseases. So whether that's, you know, cardiovascular disease, whether that's autoimmune disease, whether that's cancer, whether that's neurodegenerative diseases, You name it, fasting seems to help with it. And I find that fascinating because it's something that, you know, this one thing that helps with everything.