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Valter Longo, PhD | Fasting for Metabolic Health & Longevity | The Metabolic Link Ep.6

The Metabolic Link

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The Benefits of Fasting Mimicking Diet

The fasting mimicking diet could be more of an optimal way to produce that caloric deficit, or are there advantages above and beyond the intermittent calorie restriction that you're giving. Sometimes the cancer loves the fat, and the ketone is sometimes the cancer is killed by the ketone bodies. And so I think that the calorie restriction or very low calorie is now making a much more difficult for the cancer to adapt because there's not enough amino acids and not enough sugar etc,. Not enough growth factors to carry out that growth right?

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