MADRID - While most of Europe kicked off 2021 with earlier curfews or stay-at-home orders, authorities in Spain insist the new coronavirus variant causing h
UOC researchers to study the effects of intermittent fasting on aging in postmenopausal women
Although many treatments are offered for slowing down the impact of aging on health and physical appearance, there are no serious studies that prove their effectiveness on the biological effects of aging. According to research, calorie restriction increases life expectancy and improves health in an extensive range of animals, including mammals. Two researchers from the UOC Faculty of Health Sciences FoodLab, Salvador Macip and Marta Massip, will study the impact of intermittent fasting in women who have completed menopause.
The goals pursued by this study - funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation - are, on one hand, to validate aging markers in a context of calorie restriction and, on the other hand, determine whether intermittent fasting leads to changes in organ aging in menopausal women, that is, women whose ovaries have ceased all activity. Menopause is associated with a seri
Video by Benjamin Bouly-Rames If you don t open the door, we ll break it down, shouts a policeman, sparks flying through the night as a circular saw cuts through the chained back entrance of a Madrid bar.
Elsewhere, police force open the rolling shutters of a popular cocktail bar and storm into the dimly-lit interior, where 36 people are drinking in the glow of neon bar signs. Who s the owner? barks a woman police officer. Everyone line up with your papers in hand.
Although Madrid s nightlife has been shuttered since the summer, and a midnight curfew has emptied the streets since October, such raids have become a regular feature in the city.