DIABETES & OBESITY

“A diet designed to imitate the effects of fasting appears to reverse diabetes, a new USC-led study shows.

The fasting-like diet promotes the growth of new insulin-producing pancreatic cells that reduce symptoms of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes in mice.

“Cycling a fasting-mimicking diet and a normal diet essentially reprogrammed non-insulin-producing cells into insulin-producing cells,” said Valter Longo, a professor of biological sciences at the USC.

– USC News, February 24, 2017