Fasting-Mimicking Diet Reverses Aging Signs

 How soon will your doctors get this installed into your hospital?  They have to do something to recover your lost 5 cognitive years from your stroke? 

Or are they comfortable doing nothing and being incompetent?

They've known about the benefits of fasting-mimicking diet for three months now and I bet they have incompetently done nothing!

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Fasting-Mimicking Diet Reverses Aging Signs

Summary: Cycles of a fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) can effectively reduce signs of immune system aging, insulin resistance, and liver fat, thereby decreasing biological age in humans.

The FMD is a five-day plan high in unsaturated fats but low in calories, proteins, and carbohydrates, designed to emulate the effects of water-only fasting while providing essential nutrients. This intervention, which doesn’t require chronic lifestyle changes, has shown in clinical trials to rejuvenate metabolic and immune functions, lowering the risk factors for various age-related diseases and reducing participants’ biological age by an average of 2.5 years.

The findings bolster the case for the FMD as a manageable, periodic dietary intervention to enhance health and longevity without drastic lifestyle overhauls.

Key Facts:

1. FMD Benefits: The fasting-mimicking diet has been linked to numerous health benefits, including stem cell regeneration, reduced chemotherapy side effects, decreased signs of dementia in mice, and lowered risk factors for several chronic diseases in humans.
2. Clinical Trial Findings: Participants in the FMD group of the study experienced significant improvements in metabolic health, including reduced insulin resistance and liver fat, alongside indications of a rejuvenated immune system.
3. Biological Age Reduction: Through the FMD, participants were able to reduce their biological age by an average of 2.5 years, showcasing the diet’s potential for enhancing cellular and tissue function.

Source: USC

Cycles of a diet that mimics fasting can reduce signs of immune system aging, as well as insulin resistance and liver fat in humans, resulting in a lower biological age, according to a new USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology-led study.

The study, which appears in Nature Communications on Feb. 20, adds to the body of evidence supporting the beneficial effects of the fasting-mimicking diet (FMD).

The FMD is a five-day diet high in unsaturated fats and low in overall calories, protein, and carbohydrates and is designed to mimic the effects of a water-only fast while still providing necessary nutrients and making it much easier for people to complete the fast. The diet was developed by the laboratory of USC Leonard Davis School Professor Valter Longo, the senior author of the new study.

“This study shows for the first time evidence for biological age reduction from two different clinical trials, accompanied by evidence of rejuvenation of metabolic and immune function,” Longo said. Credit: Neuroscience News

“This is the first study to show that a food-based intervention that does not require chronic dietary or other lifestyle changes can make people biologically younger, based on both changes in risk factors for aging and disease and on a validated method developed by the Levine group to assess biological age,” Longo said.

Previous research led by Longo has indicated that brief, periodic FMD cycles are associated with a range of beneficial effects. They can:

• Promote stem cell regeneration
• Lessen chemotherapy side effects
• Reduce the signs of dementia in mice