A few weeks before I just did my every-6-months 5-day fasting. The pic is breakfast on Day one.

More precisely I did the Fasting Mimicking Diet as created by Dr Valter Longo

There are different types of fasting, timing and duration. They are all used to activate certain mechanisms that benefit the health.

Basically, Fasting Mimicking Diet is not exactly a 5 day real fasting (as in eating nothing) but you reduce calories to a point when the body starts activating those mechanisms you are looking for. In other words, you don’t need to go to zero calories per day to activate those mechanisms. And prolonged fasting (-mimicking) activates mechanisms that the body will only activate after 3 or 4 days of fasting. Definitely read Dr Valter Longo’s work for the whole story and explanation. His Fasting Mimicking Diet is also suggested by Plant Paradox author.

Soon, I will be posting how I reduce my calories, every meal for each of the five days, with plant paradox compliant food…

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