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Another adjuvant therapy to consider is the 3-5 day fast or fasting mimicking diet. https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/valter-longo-2

Essentially, during the fast, the body cannibalizes a significant percentage 30%? (IIRC) of immune cells. Once the fast completes, the refeeding cycle regenerates brand new cells from stem cells which results in resetting auto-immune symptoms.

For serious cases of necessary therapy, they do this on a 25 day (normal) /5 (fast) cycle.

Reviews say that the book that Dr Valter Longo promotes is a big ad for his fasting-mimicking diet kit, but they have a brief screen shot of the fasting-mimicking diet protocol which is:

  day 1 - 1100 calories (11/46/43% protein/fat/carb)
  day 2-5 - 720 calories (9/44/47% protein/fat/carb) macronutrient breakdown.
This works out to: day 1 - 30g protein, 56g fat, 118g carb day 2-5 - 16g protein, 35g fat, 85g carb


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