Beth Newcomb

The Guardian quoted Valter Longo in an article on the benefits and risks of intermittent fasting. “It can make a big difference, but it depends how you do it.”

Earth.com, New York Post (republished by Yahoo News) and Telegraph reported on a study led by Valter Longo that showed a fasting-mimicking diet can lower a person’s biological age. “This is the first study to show that a food-based intervention that does not require chronic dietary or other lifestyle changes can make people biologically younger, based on both changes in risk factors for ageing and disease,” Longo said.

Medical Xpress and Medriva covered a study by Valter Longo that indicates cycles of a fasting-mimicking diet can reduce disease risk factors and lower biological age in humans.

Los Angeles Times, in a column, noted that Valter Longo of USC Leonard Davis advises that supplement-heavy diets that include drug therapies like the one promoted by Bryan Johnson could be harmful. “You can cause short-term benefits, but eventually that will probably turn into long-term problems.”