Coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

People are not going to be old and sick. They're going to be old and healthy and contributing to our society.

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Hi, I'm Kaya Perot, one of the producers of the Doctors' Pharmacy Podcast.

The topic of fasting has gained a lot of recent hype in the health world and with good reason.

Fasting has been shown to help with weight loss and losing dangerous inflammatory belly fat.

It can reduce insulin levels and blood pressure, improve insulin sensitivity, and reduce the risk of diabetes.

And it can help the brain function better. Dr. Hyman sat down with Dr. Walter Longo, an internationally recognized leader in the field of aging studies to discuss Dr. Longo's research and development of the fasting mimicking diet. Let's listen in.

Most physicians were trained to treat diseases with drugs that suppress symptoms or target a specific pathway or mechanism.

But your work has shown that you're really not doing that. You're focusing on the inherent repair systems, the regeneration and healing mechanisms in the body, the programs, as you call them, that can get activated by specific interventions, which then can be applied across all sorts of diseases.

So it seems almost incredulous that you could say that eating this way, which is short periods of restricted calories for five days, could help treat Alzheimer's and cancer and diabetes and colitis and MS and all kinds of other stuff.

Essentially, it's very short periods of calorie restriction, 800 to 1100 calories, five days done a few times a year, two or three times more if you're treating something serious like an autoimmune disease or maybe cancer.

But it's not that much time out of the space of a year to do this. And this product, this program has the ability to treat so many different things.

And one of the things you said this morning, it was really powerful, was that it takes many drugs to do what a fasting mimicking diet does.

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