Dr. Valter Longo – Fasting Mimicking Diet improves breast cancer treatment

Chris Beat Cancer: Heal With Nutrition & Natural Therapies

Chris Wark

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Fitness

4.7 • 689 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Complete show notes and links here: https://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/dr-valter-longo-fasting-mimicking-diet-improves-breast-cancer-treatment/

“The most powerful medicine is the medicine from within.” – Dr. Valter Longo

It’s been two and a half years, since my last interview with Dr. Valter Longo, and today he’s back to share some exciting updates on his ongoing research, specifically on fasting to improve cancer treatment.

Valter Longo PhD is the author of the book, The Longevity Diet, and one of the foremost researchers in the world on fasting, immune system regeneration, and longevity.

Dr. Longo and colleagues also developed the Fasting Mimicking Diet, a 4-5 day, plant-based, calorie-restricted diet, which is used clinically under the name Xentigen (formerly Chemolieve) and is available to consumers under the brand name ProLon.

In this new interview, Dr. Longo talks about three new studies published in Nature on the impact that a Fasting Mimicking Diet has on cancer cells and cancer treatment. These studies found:

-Breast cancer patients who did a four-day Fasting Mimicking Diet around each chemo cycle had the same amount of side effects as the control group doing chemo, but without taking an additional drug to reduce side effects. The FMD group had a five times better response to chemo than the non-FMD group. They were more likely to experience 90-100% tumor loss and they had far less long-term immune cell damage.

-The Fasting Mimicking Diet combined with IV vitamin C worked better than vitamin C alone.

-Hormone therapy ER+ with FMD caused increased tumor regression and reversed treatment resistance.

It is an absolute thrill and an incredible honor to be able to interview Dr. Valter Longo again.

Dig in, learn some amazing stuff, and then share this interview with the people you care about!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Chris. Welcome to another interview. I've got Dr. Walter Longo back.
0:05.0	It's been two and a half years, which I can't believe it, since I interviewed Dr. Longo last.
0:10.0	He's the author of the book, The Longevity Diet, which is an absolutely fantastic book.
0:15.0	He's one of the foremost researchers in the world on fasting, immune system regeneration, longevity, and we talked about
0:28.2	a ton of amazing stuff in our previous interview. I'll link to that in the show notes. I hope you
0:32.3	will go watch or listen to that. And I don't want to redo that interview. We'll touch on some of those things that we
0:38.7	covered last time, but there's two really, really exciting studies that have come out that Dr.
0:45.0	Volta Longo has been involved with, and I can't wait to share them with you. I can't wait to
0:49.8	have him share them with you. But quick bio, Dr. Longo was born and raised in Genoa, Italy.
0:55.7	He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from UCLA in 97, did his postdoctoral training
1:02.4	in the neurobiology of aging and Alzheimer's disease at USC.
1:06.7	He's currently a professor of gerontology and biological sciences and director of the
1:11.9	Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California.
1:15.6	His most recent studies are on dietary interventions that can affect stem cell-based
1:20.6	regeneration to promote longevity and reverse the course of many diseases.
1:26.6	Like I said, he is a global leader in aging and
1:31.5	nutrition with over 100 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier journals, including Science, Nature
1:37.7	Cell, JAMA, Cancer Cell, Journal of Translational Medicine, and more. He also developed the pro-lon fasting-mimicking diet,
1:47.0	and a lot of the new, this research we're going to talk about today
1:50.0	is centered around fasting and cancer therapy,
1:55.0	and the effects that a fasting-mimicking diet can have on chemotherapy,
1:59.0	treatment, and patient outcomes outcomes and hormone therapy.
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