A specialized low-salt fasting-mimicking diet revives kidney function in preclinical animal models and patients with chronic ...

The FMD (Fast-Mimicking Diet) lasts 4-7 days, allowing specific foods while reducing caloric intake It focuses on plant-based foods, promoting healthy fats and reducing inflammation The diet ...

including the five-day fasting-mimicking diet. Also referred to as FMD, fasting-mimicking is "a low-calorie diet designed to mimic fasting without fasting," explains Dana Ellis Hunnes, a senior ...

A diagram of the fasting mimicking diet (FMD) protocol developed by the scientists, which retains the health benefits of prolonged fasting. In mice, FMD improved metabolism and cognitive function ...

A dietary intervention restored kidney function in animal studies and in a pilot study of patients with chronic kidney ...

Some small studies have found that a fasting-mimicking diet—the kind Longo ­advocates—helps people lose weight and body fat, lowers blood pressure and decreases levels of a hormone linked to ...

The idea behind this "fasting-mimicking diet" is for people to see the same changes in their bodies that they would if they fasted for those five days. Meal kits designed to give people the right ...

In this study, animal models with chronic kidney disease were fed a specialized low-salt, fasting-mimicking diet (LS-FMD), designed to match the daily intake recommended for human patients with ...

Following a diet that mimics fasting for five days a month appeared to reverse people's biological age by two and a half years on average in a study. The fasting-mimicking diet, developed by the ...