Sparkle Health-5 Day ProLon Fasting Mimicking Diet

The ProLon 5-Day Fasting Mimicking Diet is a structured 5 day nutritional program designed to help your body enter “fasting mode” while actually still eating.  Some may argue - why do you need a program to basically “not eat”. Well, if you have ever attempted a fast for more than one day, there is something psychologically soothing about being able to eat what comes in your ProLon kit. 

Using a structured program, like this session with Dr. Mercuro, helps you achieve a fast where normally something like this would be quite hard to too.  The benefits of fasting are to support your metabolic health and help with the cellular renewal process. 

This protocol was created by Dr Valter Longo PhD.  He is a longevity and cancer researcher who designed the program understanding the benefits of the fast but also knowing how hard it  is to basically not eat for 5 days.   There is no doubt that we are constantly eating during our waking hours and sometimes we are even eating at night when we should be asleep.  We overstimulate our metabolism and our digestion.  The fast is an opportunity to reset your system and support autophagy.  Autophagy is the process by which our body “cleans up” abnormal and damaged cells. To support autophagy is to support aging well and theoretically reducing the potential for cells to become damaged enough for cancer to occur. 

The program puts your body into ketosis-  which supports fat burning and for some enhances energy and even brain clarity. Our body has natural mechanisms that were designed to withstand fasting, we were not meant to constantly be over-nourished.  The funny thing about today’s food environment is that we lack protections against caloric and nutritional excess driving the obesity and chronic disease epidemics. A periodic fast is a strategy to offset the excess of modern life on our body.

This program can of course be done on your own-  but a group setting will give you a shared experience and social support to give yourself the best chance of success.  You can do hard things and we can do even harder things together.