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What Is The ProLon® “Fasting Mimicking Diet™”? | El Paso, TX.

El Paso, Tx. Chiropractor, Dr. Alex Jimenez presents the “Fasting Mimicking Diet™” (FMD™) by ProLon®. He introduces how the plan works, what it includes, and the benefits.

This 5-day meal program provides nutrients in precise quantities and combinations that nourish the body, but the body does not recognize it as food and mimics a fast. This diet is the secret to fasting!

Research has shown certain types of diets that can mimic fasting, which enables the body to experience the health effects of a fast safely.

Fast Mimicking diet, what does it mean?

A Fasting Mimicking and Enhancing™ Diet (FMED™) is a high nutrition, low protein, low carbohydrate meal plan, that benefits aging, poor health, inflammation and maintaining optimal health.

What does plan consist of?

  • The ProLon® plan is followed 5-days each month.
  • Suggested you follow a healthy diet for remaining 25 days.
  • Provides natural, healthy ingredients to nourish body while body believes it’s fasting.
  • Meal is low in carbohydrates & proteins
  • Contains healthy fatty acids
  • Plant-based soups
  • Bars
  • Crackers
  • Olives
  • Drinks
  • Supplements

How Diet Is Taken?

  • The diet should be taken for 5 consecutive days
  • Patient transitions one day then resumes normal diet gradually.
  • Specific combination of food provided for each day: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Snacks.
  • Missed meal can be made up any time same day.
  • Diet should be taken as recommended by healthcare professional.

After Completing the Diet?

  • 6th-day diet ends, patient should avoid binge eating and resume normal diet gradually.
  • Should start with liquid foods:
  • Soups and fruit juices
  • Followed by light meals:
  • Rice, pasta and small portions of meat, fish

Body Performance Enhancement:

  • Allows body to trigger set of protection measures
  • Greater focus
  • Clarity
  • Energy
  • Leaner body
  • Decrease excess body fat
  • Preserve lean muscle mass
  • Fastest way to lose fat (belly fat)
  • Enhances cellular function
  • Promote stem cell-based renewal (cleans up aging & damaged cells)
  • Metabolic health
  • Maintain healthy levels:
  • Blood glucose
  • Cholesterol
  • Blood pressure
  • Results in 5 days

Valter Longo, Ph.D.

Inventor: Fasting Mimicking Diet

Director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California and The Program on Longevity and Cancer at IFOM in Milan designed the FMD.

  • He is considered the global leader in nutrition and aging.
  • His research team took on the journey to uncover an intervention that slows/reverses biological aging and delays the onset of age-related diseases.
  • Because it is risky nowadays to fast on water only, doctor Longo developed a natural plant-based meal program that imitates fasting while still feeding the body.

The ProLon Fasting Mimicking Formulation is only healthcare technology to be granted a patent for promoting tissue/organ regeneration, Longevity, and Healthspan by the USPTO.

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