Fasting may help ward off infections, study in mice suggests (Starve a gut infection?)

Medical XPress / Public Library of Science / PLOS Pathogens ^ | Aug. 5, 2021 | Graef FA, Celiberto LS, Allaire JM, Kuan MTY, Bosman ES, Crowley SM, et al.

[BobL]

“Experiments using the bacteria Campylobacter jejuni confirmed that the effect of fasting was not limited to Salmonella, with similar results seen.”

I was wondering if they would test Campylobacter Jejuni.

(not that I ever heard of it)

[rolling_stone]

methinks your body knows best if you are sick usually you dont want food when you start getting well you get hungry..eh?

[Enterprise]

I misread the headline at first. I thought it read that Farting would help ward off infections.

[erlayman]

A single day ? Probably. I go for 20 hours a day and have never felt better. But Extrapolating from 2 days of mice not eating is more like a week. Although the immune system can reset itself completely in as little as three days without food.

https://www.flowin.com/index.php?page=blog_post&blog_id=79#:~:text=Fasting%20for%20three%20days%20can%20regenerate%20entire%20immune%20system%2C%20study%20finds,-Home&text=Fasting%20for%20as%20little%20as,breakthrough%20described%20as%20%22remarkable%22.

[Vaduz]

Maybe granny was right starve a cold feed a fever.