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

The Prolon Fasting Mimicking Diet was pioneered by Dr. Valter Longo, a biogerontologist and cell biologist at the University of Southern California. Prolon has undergone 32 clinical trials with 18 ...

Many people are following the "fasting-mimicking diet" (FMD), and they're on the road ... FMD was brought to life by Dr.

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 ...

For Longo, whose ancestors are all Italian, this entails a diet “rich in tomatoes, green beans, garbanzo beans, and olive oil.” The book also promotes a “fasting-mimicking diet,” (FMD ...

so they should be tested further for treatment of progressive kidney diseases,” says Dr. Longo. “This fasting-mimicking diet seems to induce changes in gene expression that slow kidney ...

Human trials of the fasting-mimicking diet have shown that at least in the short term, risk factors for disease seem to go down, people lose weight and fat, and the diet appears to be safe. Longo ...

Valter Longo, 56, a professor of gerontology and director of the USC Longevity Institute, researches the fasting-mimicking diet, which involves interspersing a healthy diet with three to five-day ...