“ The benefits of intermittent fasting are from metabolic switching. During fasting, glucose is depleted and the liver converts fatty acids to ketones to be used for energy instead of glucose....Elevation of ketones is a marker of the metabolic switch, but studies suggest beneficial cellular responses beyond ketones...So even if someone is not in ketosis, there are still benefits of fasting. Other health benefits adding to the list are weight loss, decreased inflammation, cancer risk reduction, lower cholesterol and blood pressure, brain health, and anti-aging.”

Dr. Mark Mattison
John Hopkins School of Medicine

“ Fasting is evolutionarily embedded within our physiology, triggering several essential cellular functions. Flipping the switch from a fed to fasting state does more than help us burn calories and lose weight. The researchers combed through dozens of studies to explain how simple fasting improves metabolism, lowering blood sugar; lessens inflammation, which improves a range of health issues from arthritic pain to asthma; and even helps clear out toxins and damaged cells, which lowers risk for cancer and enhances brain function.” 

Dr. Monique Tello
Harvard Medical School

“ Reducing abdominal and liver fat, FMD diet pushes the body into a high fat-burning mode, mainly using abdominal/visceral fat but also liver fat, which are central to the promotion of diabetes and other diseases...Nutrition is clearly the most important factor you can take control of to affect how long you live, whether you will be diagnosed with certain major diseases, and whether you will be active and strong or sedentary and frail in old age...awakening the body’s dormant ability to heal, protect, regenerate, and rejuvenate itself.”

Dr. Valter Longo
University of Southern California,
School of Gerontology