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Valter Longo claims fasting-mimicking diet tripled kidney progenitor cells in trial

By Egleze Editorial Desk · Published October 17, 2026 · Thomas DeLauer · Autophagy Doctor: Eat This for 4 Days and Shrink Fat More than Fasting (no muscle loss)
Valter Longo claims fasting-mimicking diet tripled kidney progenitor cells in trial
Thomas DeLauer
Thomas DeLauer
Autophagy Doctor: Eat This for 4 Days and Shrink Fat More than Fasting (no muscle loss)

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"For example, in this trial that we just ran for kidney chronic kidney disease patients the ste the progentor cell the kidney progentor cells tripled in the blood of patients that did the fasting making diet."

Dr Valter Longo claims a trial his group recently ran in chronic kidney disease patients found kidney progenitor cells in the blood tripled among those using a fasting-mimicking diet. He does not provide details on the study design, sample size or publication status in the clip.

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Dr Valter Longo · guest
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Autophagy Doctor: Eat This for 4 Days and Shrink Fat More than Fasting (no muscle loss)
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