Could diets that mimic fasting improve people’s immune systems?
Monday, April 27, 2020 - 09:10
in Health & Medicine
Professor Valter Longo, director of the USC Longevity Institute, is investigating how fasting and diets that mimic fasting’s effects can help immune function, including vaccine efficacy and the body’s response to infection by viruses such as influenza and eventually COVID-19. Fasting and fasting mimicking diets appear to “get rid of damaged or misguided cells and replace them […]