Message #45179

[mccoy]

Some of the above suggestions have been extensively dissected by modern nutrition science. For example, what today is known as intermittent fasting, is number IV. There have also been very interesting attempts to group together  I+II+III+IV for a limited number of days, choosing the type of foods and the small amounts in a careful way (by counting calories, protein and carbs and decreasing them to a minimum), in such a way that it triggers similar metabolic paths and effects as those triggered by an only water fast.
The method, which I have tried many times, is the 5-days Fast Mimicking Diet by Valter Longo, an eminent longevity researcher.