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

While there can be health benefits from the diet, it’s not entirely a risk-free endeavor. For example, Hunnes notes that because the fasting-mimicking period only lasts five days, results will not be ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

"The fasting-mimicking diet (FMD), also known as the ProLon Diet ... The study had some limitations, both dietitians noted. "It was a small sample size of healthy young-ish individuals," Freirich said ...

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 ...

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 ...

A five-day cycle of fasting or fasting-mimicking diet every three to four months could also maintain healthy insulin levels and blood pressure, the researchers found. Professor Longo described the ...

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 ...

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 ...