FASTING TRACK Intermittent fasting and time-restricted feeding have been found to protect against diabetes and help longevity, provided you stay well-hydrated.


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NONINVASIVE COLON CANCER SCREENING Are you among the one in


three adults over 50 who aren’t getting screened for colon can- cer, as major health organiza- tions in the U.S. recommend? You no longer have an excuse


if it’s because you’re put off by the idea of a colonoscopy: A fair- ly new noninvasive test (Colo- guard) can check your stool for both blood and genetic markers that are often present in people who have precancerous polyps or colon cancer. It’s prep-free (there’s no need to fast and drink laxatives beforehand), and it has a 92 percent success rate at fi nding colon cancer, ac- cording to research in The New England Journal of Medicine.


The drawback: It isn’t as


good at detecting precancerous polyps as it is colon cancer, says Cindy M. Yoshida, M.D., a pro- fessor of medicine at the Univer- sity of Virginia Digestive Health Center in Charlottesville. “Colonoscopy is the only test


that does detection and preven- tion because you can have pre- cancerous polyps removed dur- ing the procedure.”


OPTIMAL MEDICATION TIMING It’s long been known that


your body’s circadian rhythm — the approximately 24-hour internal clock that regulates various biological processes — infl uences your sleep-wake pat- terns, hormone release, eating


and digestion, body tempera- ture, blood pressure, and many other internal functions. Recently, an enhanced of


understanding circadian


rhythms, at the molecular level, has shed light on the optimal timing of drug administration. The new thinking is that the time when a drug is adminis- tered can infl uence its absorp- tion,


metabolism, effi cacy,


elimination from the body, and the side eff ects that are likely to occur, for better or worse.


“Timing may be the answer to increasing effi cacy,”


says


Satchin Panda, Ph.D., a pro- fessor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, and author of The Circadian Code.


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