Foundmyfitness

 Dr. Valter Longo This episode of the FoundMyFitness podcast features Dr. Valter Longo, a professor of gerontology and biological sciences and director of the longevity institute at the University of Southern California. Dr. Longo has made huge contributions to the field of aging, including the role of fasting and diet in longevity and healthspan in humans as well as metabolic fasting therapies for the treatment of human diseases. In this podcast, Valter and I discuss... The effects of prolonged fasting, which refers to 2-3 day fasting intervals in mice and 4-5 days in humans. Dr. Longo’s work on the fasting-mimicking diet, which is 5 day restricted diet that is meant to simulate some of the biological effects of prolonged fasting while still allowing some food. How clinical trials have demonstrated efficacy for this diet for type 2 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and cancer patients. Fasting as an inducer of differential stre�ss resistance, where it can simultaneously make cancer cells more sensitive to death