Therapeutic Fasting: Are Patients Aged 65 and Over Ready?

ABSTRACT: While being the main potential beneficiaries of therapeutic fasting's health benefits, the elderly are frequently thought of as being too fragile to fast. The main objective of our survey was to review the knowledge, practices, and acceptability of therapeutic fasting in subjects aged 65 years and over. From September 2020 to March 2021, an online questionnaire was sent to subjects aged 65 and over, using the mailing list of local organizations working in the field of aging. The mean age of the 290 respondents was 73.8 ± 6.5 years, 75.2% were women and 54.1% had higher education. Among the respondents, 51.7% had already fasted and 80.7% deemed therapeutic fasting interesting, 83.1% would be willing to fast if it was proven beneficial for their health, and 77.2% if it was proven to decrease

SUBMITTER: Gramont B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9143805 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature