Fasting diet could reverse diabetes

A fasting diet could ‘regenerate’ your pancreas and reverse diabetes it has been learnt.

The drug-free treatment was seen to be effective in mice.

Lead researcher Professor Valter Longo from the University of Southern California:

Cycles of fasting-mimicking diet and a normal diet essentially reprogrammed non-insulin producing cells into insulin-producing cells

Previous studies have also shown decrease in risk markers for diabetes.

For the study, two different strains of mice were made to mimic two different types of diabetes.

They were then given a diet that involved reduction in calorie intake over days.

The Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD) triggered the re-growth of pancreatic cells in the damaged organ leading to a reduction of symptoms of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

Statistics indicate that as many as 10% of Zimbabwe’s population suffer from diabetes. That is over 1.5 million people.

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