The fasting-mimicking diet promotes longevity and metabolic health markers

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Clinical and experimental evidence indicates that a fasting-mimicking diet improves metabolic health markers, reduces disease risks, and promotes biomarkers associated with longevity.

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Multiple clinical trials, randomized controlled studies, and reviews (such as papers 5, 6, and 7) specifically evaluate the fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) and consistently find positive effects on metabolic health markers (like blood glucose and insulin resistance) and biological age reduction. There are no papers in the retrieved set refuting these specific claims.

Evidence for · 3

Fasting-mimicking diet causes hepatic and blood markers changes indicating reduced biological age and disease risk

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Sebastian Brandhorst, Morgan E. Levine, Min Wei, Mahshid Shelehchi, Todd E. Morgan, Krishna S. Nayak, Tanya B. Dorff, Kurt Hong, Eileen M. Crimmins, Pinchas Cohen, Valter D. Longo. Fasting-mimicking diet causes hepatic and blood markers changes indicating reduced biological age and disease risk. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45260-9

Clinical trials and analyses show that cycles of a fasting-mimicking diet reduce biological age markers, insulin resistance, and hepatic fat.

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Effects of Fasting-Mimicking Diet and Specific Meal Replacement Foods on Blood Glucose Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Fang Tang, Xuan Lin. Effects of Fasting-Mimicking Diet and Specific Meal Replacement Foods on Blood Glucose Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6615295

A randomized controlled trial demonstrates that a fasting-mimicking diet improves blood glucose control and reduces metabolic syndrome risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes.

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PERIODIC FASTING MIMICKING DIET, LONGEVITY, AND DISEASE

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Valter Longo. PERIODIC FASTING MIMICKING DIET, LONGEVITY, AND DISEASE. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.362

Reviews of periodic fasting-mimicking diets indicate they regulate key longevity-associated pathways, reduce disease risk factors, and extend lifespan in animal models.

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