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Intermittent fasting is gaining interest fast

Krista Varady discusses two seminal papers on intermittent fasting that inspired her to enter this research area.

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Varady, K. Intermittent fasting is gaining interest fast. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol 22, 587 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41580-021-00377-3

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