Fasting mimmicking diet

Posted by ava11 @ava11, Feb 10 7:28pm

Anyone here has done Fasting mimicking diet to fight prostate cancer or just to get healthy?

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bens1 | @bens1 | Feb 11 6:39am

@ava11
Have you had tests done already and if so, what were they and what were the results (psa and pse, biopsy…)? What was your doctor, urologist, oncologist or whoever, saying?
Every Body is different and progresses at different rates. Time is not necessarily a benefit to you.

florida11 | @florida11 | Feb 11 7:36am

I ordered the newly released book “Fasting Cancer” by Dr. Valter Longo, who, as you probably know, created a fasting mimicking diet. In a pre-release interview, he said there’s a chapter on prostate cancer. I’ve been traveling and have not been home to start reading the book yet.

I have not been able to find any online stories or benefits of fasting for prostate cancer. In fact, one doctor suggested that the increased autophagy from fasting could actually accelerate the growth of cancer cells. So I don’t know if fasting is beneficial, adverse, or has no effect, but I’m looking forward to reading the book.

ava11 | @ava11 | Feb 11 11:16am

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Bens1,
Thank you for your response. I have not talked to my prostate cancer support team about this diet or any other diet! They know I follow vegan diet. I have locally advance PCa. I am on Orgovyx for the last 10 months after SBRT treatment at UCLA.
I purchased Valter Longo's book about 6 years ago when it first came out. I was only diagnosed PCa last March.
I never practiced his diet and certainly didn't want to eat his PROLON packaged food even though it is well researched.
I got an email from DR GEO about a week ago (I am not his patient) that he is sponsoring a group to start using Fasting Mimicking diet this Sunday. That diet is limited for people under 70. So, I am not a good candidate.
DR Geo says it will benefit me. That has prompted me to post this.
I follow Intermittent fasting just to improve my health not as a cure for PCa.