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by hrodriguez 3398 days ago
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> Professor Valter Longo, from the University of Southern California, explained "Our conclusion is that by pushing the mice into an extreme state and then bringing them back - by starving them and then feeding them again - the cells in the pancreas are triggered to use some kind of developmental reprogramming that rebuilds the part of the organ that's no longer functioning."[1]

Feast and famine diet may restore insulin production in diabetes:

[1] http://www.news-medical.net/news/20170224/Feast-and-famine-d...