Intermittent Thoughts on Intermittent Fasting - The Switch: Introducing the AMPK vs. mTOR Metabolic Seesaw
Figure 1: The mTOR - AMPK "cycle" can become a vicious one, as soon as its natural balance becomes disturbed by external, mostly nutritional and/or exercise related factors. Intermittent fasting could help you restore the balance. Before we prematurely(?) break the fast and get to the nitty gritty of the feeding window, I want to briefly recapitulate the results of the last installment , which - as it will turn out - are of particular importance in view of today's discussion, as well. It were the thoughts on the health and possibly life-extending effects of intermittent fasting in the last installment of this series that brought up the involvement of 5'-adenosine monophospate (AMP)-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in both the weight, or we should say, fat loss and possible life-extending and anti-cancer effects of (intermittent) fasting . Now, before we even delve into a more detailed discussion of its relation to its "...