It keeps you in ketosis while taking the edge off of your hunger and low blood sugar. This is how the Prolon fasting-mimicking diet works. Eating small amounts of the right kind of food can help you get through a longer fast and won’t hurt your results. Don’t worry about a few calories here and there breaking your fast and removing its benefits. Thus, when practicing prolonged water fasting you can plan to take in some limited amount of calories, especially if this is your first fast beyond 18 to 24 hours. In most studies of alternate day fasting (24-36 hours) and other multi-day fasting schedules, researchers have used dietary interventions that call for around 500 calories per day on fasting days. Very few intermittent or prolonged fasting protocols used in human studies and clinical trials call for absolutely no calories or nothing except for water. Photo by Annica Burns, LifeOmic.ĭon’s daily fasting meal, consisting of 2 cups of mixed greens, a tbs of olive oil, a handful of almonds and some salt. So let’s get to what we experienced with multi-day modified fasting! What can you expect? Below we detail some of the experiences, physiological and metabolic changes you might encounter, based on our own experience and the underlying mechanisms of water fasting! Breakfast on the Prolon fasting-mimicking diet. The Prolon diet and Don’s version of a fasting-mimicking diet allow you to garner the impacts of prolonged water fasting without potentially problematic side effects such as electrolyte imbalance or gut upset from a complete lack of dietary fiber. In mice, the fasting-mimicking diet rejuvenates the immune system, reduces visceral fat, lowers blood pressure, reduced cancer incidence and extended life span. In humans, the fasting-mimicking diet has been shown to improve body weight, blood pressure, triglycerides and cholesterol.
The diet is being investigated for potential benefits in patients undergoing chemotherapy and in other cancer patients. The Prolon fasting-mimicking diet has been used in dozens of human research studies and clinical trials, including some recruiting and active trials. This single, 250-calorie “meal” was all he ate everyday for 5 days. He put a couple of cups of mixed greens in a bowl and sprinkled on a tablespoon of olive oil, some salt, and a dozen almonds.
Our CEO created his own “fasting-mimicking diet”. It mimics water fasting by restricting calories (< 800 calories per day), elevating ketone levels in the blood and lowering levels of glucose, insulin, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and IGF-binding protein.
Prolon is a plant-based low calorie, low protein and low carbohydrate diet that puts the body in a similar metabolic state as does water fasting. Valter Longo at the University of Southern California. For our company 120-hour modified water fast, we used the Prolon “fasting-mimicking” diet developed by Dr.
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