Fasting Mimicking Diet Cycles In Multi-System Regeneration and Disease Treatment

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21st Annual Stare-Hegsted Lecture

Valter Longo , PhD, Edna Jones Professor in Biological Sciences and Gerontology at USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology will serve as the distinguished speaker for the 21st Annual Stare-Hegsted Lecture.

Lecture Overview: Based on the discovery by his laboratory of the role of the Tor-S6k pathway in accelerating aging and diseases, the Longo lab developed the Fasting mimicking Diet (FMD), a periodic intervention that activates stem cells, cellular reprogramming and autophagy to extend longevity and reverse diseases in rodents. In over 40 clinical trials, five-day FMD cycles resulted in the reduction of biological age and regression of multiple diseases.

This annual lecture honors Drs. Fredrick Stare and Mark Hegsted, who were the founders of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1942, which was the first department of nutrition in any medical center or school of public health in the U.S.

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Valter Longo, PhD

Valter Longo, PhD, is the Edna Jones Professor in Biological Sciences and Gerontology at the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, one of the oldest and leading centers for aging research. His laboratory studies the fundamental mechanisms of aging in yeast, rodents and humans by using genetics and biochemistry techniques with focus on the nutrient-response signal transduction pathways.

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Department of Nutrition

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