Totally support the concept of fasting. Recommend the book "The Longevity Diet" by Valter Longo, PhD. His 5 day fasting mimicking diet Prolon is no gimmick and has a proven track record on reducing lipids, blood sugar, inflammation (CRP), central weight, stimulates autophagy (cellular clean-up) and stem cell production. I think the most important thing it does after 3-6 consecutive months of doing this modified fast 5 days out of the month is people get control of their food intake and addiction. They just say they don't need the food. That is the best effect as far as I am concerned. You can order it on line. Our patients at Health Associates can get it through the office at a significant discount versus the online price. Highly recommend it. Done it myself and supported many patients through it. Have an MS patient who has been with us a long time. She has just added the monthly 5 day Prolon to her normal regimen and after 5-6 months she is walking better, has more balance and is stronger (and has lost some weight. In animal models there has been some promising data with MS. Can't hurt and can only help. If you are on multiple medications. Especially blood sugar or blood pressure regulating medications you should be followed my your health practitioner. Come to my weight loss talks next month and I will have a few slides and discussion on the Fasting Mimicking Diet:
Torrance, CA, Lindquist Institute on February 12th
Health Associates, Sacramento, CA on February 14th (Yup Valentines Day!)
Also if in SoCal in early February go see Dr. Michael Greger speak on his new book, "How Not to Diet".... He is an outstanding speaker. Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 6:30 310-517-4666
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