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If this area of research interests you, here are some other resources from recent years: Will calorie restriction work in humans? http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/ag

If this area of research interests you, here are some other resources from recent years: Will calorie restriction work in humans? http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/aging.100581 http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/aging.100581 Diet that mimics fasting appears to slow aging http://news.usc.edu/82959/diet-that-mimics-fasting-appears-to-slow-aging/ http://news.usc.edu/82959/diet-that-mimics-fasting-appears-t... Fasting mimicking diet reduces risk factors for aging and multiple age-related disease https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/cci-fm020717.php https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/cci-fm020717... Diet that mimics fasting may also reduce multiple sclerosis symptoms http://news.usc.edu/101187/diet-that-mimics-fasting-may-also-reduce-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms/ http://news.usc.edu/101187/diet-that-mimics-fasting-may-also... Fasting Therapy for Treating and Preventing Disease - Current State of Evidence http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000357765 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000357765 And so forth. There's a lot of information out there.

hackermailman 10y ago
Anybody interested the doctors from the USC article on aging above and here[1] about simulated fasting now have a startup for it http://l-nutra.com/prolon/ http://l-nutra.com/prolon/ and here https://prolonfmd.com/ https://prolonfmd.com/ though only available in US, Italy and Australia right now. It's a 5 day fast once a month for overweight people or every couple of months for in shape people. No idea what the price is. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9741137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9741137
- reasonattlm 10y ago
  The price is zero, because the necessary information to do exactly the same thing yourself with plain old food is available in the papers and in the vast number of calorie/micronutrient information sites out there online, and it is really, really easy to just go and do that. The point of Prolon is that it is a way to obtain money from the regulatory/Big Pharma system in order to do more research into quantifying the benefits fasting and calorie restriction. Not that it is anything special in and of itself. It is just food, less of it.

hackermailman 10y ago

Anybody interested the doctors from the USC article on aging above and here[1] about simulated fasting now have a startup for it http://l-nutra.com/prolon/ http://l-nutra.com/prolon/ and here https://prolonfmd.com/ https://prolonfmd.com/ though only available in US, Italy and Australia right now. It's a 5 day fast once a month for overweight people or every couple of months for in shape people. No idea what the price is. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9741137 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9741137

reasonattlm 10y ago
The price is zero, because the necessary information to do exactly the same thing yourself with plain old food is available in the papers and in the vast number of calorie/micronutrient information sites out there online, and it is really, really easy to just go and do that. The point of Prolon is that it is a way to obtain money from the regulatory/Big Pharma system in order to do more research into quantifying the benefits fasting and calorie restriction. Not that it is anything special in and of itself. It is just food, less of it.