For more detailed information about fasting-mimicking diet, prevention, and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
In a human clinical study involving 100 participants, fasting-mimicking diet cycles affected many of the major risk factors or markers contributing to or associated with cardiovascular diseases, particularly in individuals at high risk. The results of the fasting-mimicking diet related to cardiovascular diseases include the following:
C-Reactive Protein, Blood Pressure, and LDL Cholesterol, All Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease, Decreases After Three Cycles of the Fasting-mimicking diet.
People affected by pathologies may not do the fasting-mimicking diet, unless they have the prior approval of their specialized doctor. In the case of serious or relatively serious illnesses (cancer, diabetes, or cardiovascular, autoimmune, or neurodegenerative diseases), it is important to seek permission and approval from a disease specialist as well as from a dietitian with expertise in the fasting-mimicking diet or in therapeutic fasting. The use of the fasting-mimicking diet for disease treatment should for the moment be limited to clinical trials unless the doctor determines that there are no viable options and the patient cannot wait until the conclusion of appropriate clinical trials and FDA (US Food and Drug Administration), and similar agencies in other countries, approval.
Talk to your cardiologist about adopting components of the Esselstyn, Ornish, Walford, and Longevity diets, combined with new information emerging from clinical and epidemiological studies.
For more specifics on all the below guidelines.
The diet proposed by Professor Longo differs from the Ornish diet in that it allows high levels of fat from fish, olive oil, and nuts. However, it does not go as far as the Barcelona study’s diet fat allowance, which permits close to one liter of olive oil per week. Because the Barcelona study diet clearly protects against cardiovascular disease, the diet presented by Professor Longo is a compromise that factors in decades of work and evidence produced by Ornish, Esselstyn, and others indicating that very low-fat intake may be preferable while also considering more recent studies suggesting that there is little evidence that a decreased consumption of olive oil and nuts will produce a beneficial effect.
Talk to your doctor about using the dietary treatments described here as an integrative strategy.
Undergo periodic fasting-mimicking diet. Remind your doctor that hypertension medications should not be taken with a fasting-mimicking diet unless it is clear that your blood pressure will remain within the normal range.
Because the dietary interventions have not yet been tested in large randomized clinical trials for the treatment of cardiovascular disease, they should be used only in support of standard-of-care therapy. Early results are certainly promising enough that you and your doctor should bear them in mind as we continue to work toward larger trials and FDA approval.
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