[https://youtu.be/Gi--vW3wJDs](https://youtu.be/Gi--vW3wJDs)
Basically he says that fasting is probably good for your health, but it most likely will not have a big effect on human lifespan. This does surprise me a bit considering people have fought disease with fasting, some claiming to have shrunk tumors with both water and dry fasting as well as virtually curing type II diabetes. Considering that diabetes can knock a decade or two off your life, treating and preventing it I would think would add more than a couple to your life. Then there's many more supposed health benefits I've heard such as obviously autophagy which I thought alone could add years.
I've come to the belief that fasting regularly is almost the best thing you can do for your health, but hearing an anti-aging researcher say that it's not all it's cracked up to be has me a bit worried.
P.S. This is not about weight loss!
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It sure will have a huge impact on life span for sure. When we fast, specially dry fasting, our Human growth hormone (which is responsible for youth, growth and healing) increases by up to 2000%. But also the fact that our body uses more energy on cleaning up and healing our body and killing dead waste and cells. Humans can probably live 20-30 years more by fasting regularly.