A Diet Mimicking Fasting Initiates the Killing of Auto-Immune Cells

A Diet Mimicking Fasting Initiates the Killing of Auto-Immune Cells - Health Council

“Scientists discovered that the diet triggers a death-and-life process for cells that appears critical for the body’s repair.”

“During the fasting-mimicking diet, cortisone is produced and that initiates a killing of autoimmune cells,” said Valter Longo, the study’s lead author and professor who directs the USC Longevity Institute at the Davis School of Gerontology. “This process also leads to the production of new healthy cells.”

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