Improving metabolic health through fasting significantly reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and complications of diabetes.

“to me that's probably the greatest line of reasoning that says fasting is probably protective against all chronic disease because if you look at the three main chronic diseases that account for to our last analysis eighty two percent of deaths above the age of 50 in the United States excluding COPD so if you take out the obvious smoking related death of COPD eighty two percent of death is attributable to cardiovascular disease cancer Alzheimer's disease and complications of diabetes”