Recent Content by northernnerd

Thanks for posting this. Did you use your own protocol based on Longo's studies, or the Fasting Mimicking Diet he developed? I'm interested in trying it but I don't fully trust that I'll get the same results by doing it myself.

More recent research supports that you need more than 3 days of consecutive 'fasting' for major autophagy to occur. Alternate day fasting may have once been the best known option, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

This isn't something you should be worried about. The nice thing is that either way, you can start making changes to your diet and lifestyle to bring it down (whether you are progressing to diabetes or not). Diet is very effective at managing pre-diabetes so ask your doctor about it or seek out...

You probably don't follow this thread anymore but I had heard from multiple reliable sources that they donate their revenue back into research funds. When I first heard the same researcher was coming out with a product, I questioned it as well, but it seems like he just wants to make the...

It's a very exciting study. More research is coming out around this topic and it's nice the trend is finally about a lifestyle change. Fasting isn't for everyone, though. Luckily, there are now options available where you don't necessarily have to follow IF.

Not sure if you're still following this... I understand that the Newcastle diet must be followed for months (5-6 I believe) but the mimicking diet is only for 5 days a month. They seem to be pretty similar foods/calorie content as well. 5 days at 800 calories sound a lot better to me. Based on...