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Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today I am

joined by Dr. Walter Longo who is a professor of gerontology and

biological sciences at the University of Southern California.

He's also director of the Longevity Institute.

So welcome and thank you for joining us today, Dr. Longo.

Well, thank you.

So can you describe what your fasting mimicking diet is?

It seems there's all these benefits that are being described to fasting and I'm a per initially I wasn't that strongly and in

favor of that because I thought there was some negative like many people some

negative metabolic consequences but it seems for most it's such a powerful

intervention, but it's not something you do the rest of your life otherwise you'd

be dead. So describe to us your the evolution and what your fasting mimicking diet consist of.

Yes, so then the hypothesis was when we first started that also considering the negative effects we were seeing

from the color restriction let's say an immunity maybe the response to wounds

etc we were thinking this cannot continue, as you just pointed out, you cannot be

fasting all the time, you cannot even be calories treated all the time. So is it possible that if you do

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