Fasting

• The data suggests that following three consecutive monthly rounds of ProLon® 5-Day may decrease a person's biological age score by 2.5 years.
• L-Nutra's flagship product, ProLon® 5-day Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD), the first patented precision nutrition program shown to support cellular rejuvenation and metabolic reset effects of prolonged fasting, was provided to participants.
• This research further solidifies L-Nutra's commitment to advancing scientific understanding and practical applications of nutrition for living longer and healthier.
• This study marks a significant step forward in understanding the effect of fasting-mimicking diets (FMD) in cellular rejuvenation, metabolic reset, and supporting healthy living.

• NEW YORK, Feb. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In the ever-evolving food and nutrition space, affordability and gut health are positioned to take center stage as leading drivers of consumer purchasing decisions in 2024.
• Call It a Gut Feeling: Gut Health Climbs the List While Affordability & Convenience Maintain Top Spots as Consumer Purchase Drivers
  As consumers navigate recent increases in grocery prices, RDNs predict that affordability will be an important driver of consumer purchases.
• Research into the benefits of a healthy microbiome, from mood to weight management has sparked interest in foods that support gut health.
• The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated a need to regularly protect immune health, and consumers continue to shop for foods that support immunity.

• For the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday, observers devote themselves to fasting, prayer and acts of generous giving.
• Entitled Tarry Awhile: Wisdom from Black Spirituality for People of Faith, this selection speaks to the growing salience of Black spirituality globally, especially in regards to Christianity.
• The Archbishop’s Lenten book choice cordially redirects religious literary attention to the influence of Black spirituality in Anglican thought.

• “To tarry” is to linger in anticipation – be that of a person or an occurrence.
• In a Christian context, it is about waiting on God, expectantly.

Tarrying in the Christian tradition

• Overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death, he asks his disciples to, “tarry here and watch with me”.
• In biblical literature, tarrying refers to an individual or community patiently, longingly waiting in one setting or state for something.
• The concept of tarrying surfaces in the historical development of academic Christian theology.

• In Black Christian spirituality, the concept of tarrying exists as a familiar, mature spiritual ritual that practically manifests in a variety of ways.
• Like meditating, tarrying prioritises mindfulness over negligence or indifference.
• Within the Pentecostal tradition, specifically, tarrying is seen as a spiritual discipline.
• Religiously, tarrying means replacing the attention seeking anxieties of everyday life with a focus on the spiritual, the social and the relational.

Dr Christopher Wadibia receives funding from a postdoctoral research fellowship specialising in race, theology, and religious studies based at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.

• “These preclinical data showing that SRK-439 preserves lean mass and improves fat mass loss provide compelling scientific rationale to study SRK-439 in combination with GLP-1 RA therapies for healthy weight loss management,” said Jay Backstrom, M.D., MPH, President and CEO of Scholar Rock.
• “We believe that preserving lean muscle mass through our highly selective approach to myostatin inhibition in combination with GLP-1 RA therapy has the potential to transform the management of weight loss.
• In parallel, Scholar Rock is developing SRK-439, a novel investigational selective myostatin inhibitor, optimized for the treatment of obesity.
• SRK-439 also improved fat mass loss (–36.60% to –46.32% from baseline with semaglutide; –17.31% to –19.04% from baseline with liraglutide).