Fast Mimicking Diet — DIY Cheaply
The Health-Promoting 5-Day Diet Without the Cost
The Fast Mimicking Diet (FMD) is a 5-day low-calorie diet that has been shown in scientific studies to provide the health and longevity benefits of prolonged water-only fasting or long-term calorie restriction, but it avoids many of the risks and pitfalls of fasting without any food intake.
My primary health goal is to live a long and healthy life, and in the process maintain my body at a healthy weight, and the FMD had evidence that it could help with all those objectives. I was convinced by the science that the benefits claimed by the creator of the FMD had solid evidence behind them and I wanted to try it myself.
So, after a bit of research, I realized that the easiest way to do it was to purchase the Prolon FMD kit that Dr. Longo was involved in creating (he doesn’t take any profit from it — his money goes to charity).
“Despite its potential for disease prevention and treatment, prolonged fasting is difficult to implement in human subjects and may exacerbate preexisting nutritional…
