A Fasting Mimicking Diet Improves Anti-Cancer Immune Function

The fasting mimicking diet is, in essence, a clever strategy to pull in significant funding for the rigorous study of the use of forms of calorie restriction as a therapy. A fasting mimicking diet involves taking in just few enough calories to trigger most of the benefits of fasting. There must exist a dividing line in calorie intake at which nutrient sensor mechanisms determine that the body is in a state of fasting. Early research into fasting mimicking found that dividing line to be somewhere in the vicinity of 500 to 750 calories daily, but later studies use lower calorie levels. Another important point of calibration is to determine how long a fast must continue in order to produce the optimal, lasting benefits to metabolism. At this point, standard fasting mimicking is a five day exercise, with significant changes to the immune system occurring after the third day. The real trick here, when it comes to enlisting the support of large entities in the world of regulation and medical development, is that while there is no good way to monetize the practice of fasting, there are very definitely ways to monetize a specific diet. An entire industry is focused on medical diets and the regulation thereof. Thus a specific fasting mimicking diet was created, patented, and fed into the regulatory approval process - and in the process pulled in funding and interest for this line of research and development. For those of us with little interest in these machinations, it is wort...
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