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- The other things we saw is that

you do have to train the body.

It's a little bit like working out.

If you just do this once for five days,

you'll get a lot of the benefits:

quite a bit of weight loss,

a number of other metabolic

markers may be affected as well

but you will eventually return to normal

if you make no other lifestyle changes

over the period of the next

several weeks to months.

If you do this consecutively

for three months in a row

of five days at the

beginning of each month,

we see that you maintain a

much more significant amount

of benefits over a much

longer period of time.

- I find Prolon to be a

breakthrough in the care

that I give to diabetics.

- Ideally, once a quarter is about the,

what appears to be the kind

of set point to keep that

sort of cellular muscle tone, as you will,

to keep the body in the,

in shape for nutrition.

Dr. Longo actually did

a study where he did

two groups of mice,

one group ate,

they both ate the same total

calories during the study,

one group had fasting mimicking mixed in

and then overate and the other

group ate the same amount

the whole time and the group that overate

with fasting mimicking

diet was still skinny

and the other group of mice was obese.

So it is really about training the cells

how to use nutrition.

You can take in even potentially

less good for you foods

if your body is in shape and

it'll do the right things

with them.

- They'll say they've lost

up to eight pounds a week,

they have more energy, they feel better.

- I've been trying to

convince this patient

for months and months,

maybe a year to try to give up his soda.

It just took five days with

Prolon for him to stop.

- This is the brilliance of

the fasting mimicking diet

that we get to harness

our inner powers to heal

while simultaneously enjoying food.

So what could be better?

- What we've been teaching

here since 1956 is that people

ought not to be eating solid

food until approximately

10 o'clock or so in the morning.

We wind down in the evening.

Ideally, you don't eat

after five but the latest

would be six or seven o'clock at night,

providing you go to bed

then three hours later.

Now this is something we've

observed with hundreds

and hundreds of thousands

of people for over 60 years.

This is no longer a theory or a philosophy

and the scientific

community now has validated

what we've been observing

in a clinical setting.

So all of our guests here

are encouraged to do at least

a one day a week fast.

- I had the privilege of

directing one of the most

renowned fasting clinics

in Europe in Sweden.

So the government realized

they needed to do research

and they spent about $2.5 billion to find,

it was like 90% success rate

and we actually got certified

and by doing that to us,

any physician that thought,

well, you have an inflammatory problem,

because fasting was definitely

something that worked

as an anti-inflammatory with arthritis,

rheumatoid arthritis and

gout and asthma, emphysema,

psoriasis, eczema, you name it,

everything just about

under the sun, Diabetes,

cardiovascular, obesity, Crohn's, colitis,

then actually 80% of their fee

would be paid by the government.

So this was back in the

mid-70's and ran until

the beginning of 80's.

It disappeared when a new

group came into the government.

The problem is it wasn't

replaced by something

that was even better,

it didn't have 90% success rate.

I think those people

were influenced by money,

as simple as that.

- I was driving and all

the cars were disappearing

into like an abyss, into a mirror,

and the white lanes were

going up and down and my head

was pounding so bad

that I felt like someone

was taking a crowbar and

pulling apart my head.

I pulled over on the side of the turnpike.

I had a four pound brain tumor

that were surgically removed

at the National Institutes of Health.

It was the biggest ordeal

that I ever went through.

They drilled six holes into

my head and 47 staple scar.

When I was diagnosed with

two more brain cancers,

I just, I fell apart.

I could not handle having surgery.

I couldn't handle chemo.

- Here at Hippocrates, ever since 1956,

we've been dealing with

tens of thousands of people

who have cancer.

- In October of 2012, I

found a lump in my breast.

- It was cancer.

This cancer had grabbed ahold

of everything behind my knee

and bundled it so they

couldn't do anything

but cut my leg off above the knee.

- And the last three oncologists

that we consulted with,

second and third opinions,

all said the same thing

that she has to have the leg

removed or she's gonna die,

no mistake about that.

- Of course, fasting has

always been a big part,

a significant part of the

caloric intake and dietary part

of our program but those

who condone water fasting,

in the case of people

who are in the conquest

of all forms of cancer,

we don't think it's really prudent.

You need caloric intake.

You need the protein

that literally comes from

the juices we suggest here

which are non-sugary juices

made out of green

vegetables, green leaves,

and most important, sprouts

that have very high amounts

of amino acids and these

amino acids are something

that the body requires

to maintain the strength

and the viability of the cells.

Now we're made of cells.

You have a hundred trillion

cells that make up your body

and this tends to breakdown,

the emaciation you see from cancer

basically is a protein degradation.

- I ended up doing it for three

months and when I went back

to the oncologist, I did

the MRI with contrast,

we got the results - no cancer.

- I maintained this lifestyle

very strictly for a full year

and at the same time continued

to see that lump diminish

until now it's gone.

- I'm 91.

This little girl is 90.

- For 21 years, I have been cancer free!

We are great dancers.

We now teach people at

Golden Lakes to dance.

- How 'bout a kiss?

Yay! (laughs)

- I get these horrible

skin rashes on my face

and my body.

Coming to a place like

Hippocrates would make my life

and just the fasting

experience a lot easier.

- For me, just doing water

fasting wasn't going to work.

Even more than a day was very difficult,

just for me personally.

I can only speak from personal experience

but if I were to do the juice fasting,

it was easier because I was still able

to have that intake of food.

- And today is actually the

fourth day that I'm coming out,

I'm easing myself gently out of the fast.

My skin just smoothing out.

I didn't have the red marks

I usually have on my arms

and on my face.

- I didn't always feel

this way about fasting.

In fact, I was pretty opposed to it.

- Dr. Mercola and I have

been together eight years,

my significant other, so

we did the program in 2012

here at Hippocrates and

I think it inspired him.

- I've come to the conclusion

that there is no single

more powerful metabolic

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