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by woleium 660 days ago
See Roy Walford et al out of UCLA on the CRON diet. Its not a nice way to live, but it seems to be safe and healthy.
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I'll have to look into it more, but from what I've seen, it seemed that people had to restrict calories so much that their immune system was underactive (which may be a large part of why it works).
Interesting, i last looked at this over 10 years ago, i assume this came to light more recently than that.