Running Hungry

I found some neat research on the hunger-exercise-food relationship.  The paper is titled, "Neuroprotective signaling and the aging brain: take away my food and let me run."

The paper discusses how inactivity and overeating are destructive to the human body, and how their opposites, activity and calorie restriction, are beneficial.  The paper discusses how calorie restriction can activate many processes that repair the body.  It is speculated that exercising while under calorie restriction may augment this process.

I'm not a fan of long-term calorie restriction.  I think intermittent fasting is more natural, and provides just as many health benefits.  Exercising while undergoing intermittent fasting most likely generates repair signals to the body as well, and is in my view superior to plain calorie restriction.