Comment by robwwilliams

Just for context:

The senior author is Mark Mattson: one of the world’s most highly cited neuroscientists with amazing productivity and large lab while at NIH when this work was done.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=N3ObarMAAAAJ&hl=en...

Mattson is well known as a biohacker and an expert in intermittent fasting and health benefits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mattson

He retired from the National Institute on Aging in 2019 and is now at Johns Hopkins University. Still active researcher.

https://nihrecord.nih.gov/2019/08/23/mattson-expert-brain-ag...