How fasting may boost brainpower

摘要

COULD regular fasting make you smarter? People following regimes like the 5:2 diet usually do so for weight loss, but some who try it say it makes them mentally sharper too. If this is true, experiments in mice may offer an explanation. In these animals, enforced fasting has been found to cause changes in the brain that are likely to give neurons more energy, and enable them to grow more connections.