Practitioner Resources

Fasting Mimicking Diet and Diabetes
Diabetic kidney disease is the leading cause of end-stage kidney complication in people with diabetes. Investigators from the Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany published a study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism showing that the fasting mimicking diet...
ProLon improves healthy skin
We have heard anecdotes about ProLon improving the skin. Now we have the science to back it up. The study suggests that fasting impacts every cell in the body including our skin. The effects of the fasting-mimicking diet on facial...
Fasting for Weight Loss
Low Carb versus Balanced Carbs: Same effect Debates on effective and safe diets for managing obesity and type 2 diabetes in adults are ongoing. Low-carbs diets are widely promoted as being more effective for weight loss than other diets. A...
Long COVID and Fasting
Undertaking the ProLon Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) during COVID has not been tested so we have no data and can therefore not recommend ProLon during an active case of COVID. Likewise, we have no data guiding a decision to abort...
Prevention and treatment of cancer - interview with Prof Longo 2015
Valter Longo talks about his study of the positive effects of fasting, extreme diets and drugs that mimic them on the prevention and treatment of cancer. Recorded during the 1st Symposium IFOM-EMBL Monterotondo, June 2015