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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读讲义 Fasting can reduce weight — but also hair growth The dietary craze of intermittent fasting slows hair regrowth in both humans and mice, experiments show. Nature Fasting Dec 13, 2024 | 781 words | ★★★ ☆ ☆ A popular weight-loss regimen stunts hair growth, data collected from mice and humans suggest1. The study’s findings show that intermittent fasting, which involves short bouts of food deprivation, triggers a stress response that can inhibit or even kill hair-follicle stem cells, which give rise to hair. The results, published in today in Cell, suggest that although short-term fasting can provide health benefits, such as increased lifespan in mice, not all tissue and cell types benefit. “I was shocked to hear these results,” says Ömer Yilmaz, a stem-cell biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge who was not involved in the study. “We’ve come to expect that fasting is going to b
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