Three cycles of the fasting-mimicking diet can normalize elevated cholesterol, triglycerides, IGF-1, fasting glucose, blood pressure, and CRP in individuals with these elevated markers.

“The people that had the elevated cholesterol, it decreased cholesterol. The people that had the elevated triglycerides, it decreased triglycerides. People that had the elevated IGF-1, probably people eating on a high protein diet, it dropped IGF-1. And the highest people dropped dramatically, you know, it came down about 60 points. And the people that had the high fasting glucose, came down. People with blood pressure that was elevated, both the systolic and diastolic, had major effects. The people that had CRP, systemic inflammation, in almost every case they moved back to the normal range.”