Five-day water-only fasting decreased metabolic-syndrome risk factors and increased anti-aging biomarkers without toxicity in a clinical trial of normal-weight individuals

Affiliations

• ¹ Cancer Institute, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
• ² Department of Clinical Laboratory, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese, Shanghai, China.
• ³ Preventive Care Center of TCM, Longhua Hospital Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medcine, Shanghai, China.
• ⁴ Nursing Department, Longhua Hospital Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
• ⁵ Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
• ⁶ Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
• ⁷ Computational Virology Group, Center for Bacteria and Viruses Resources and Bioinformation, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
• ⁸ School of Medicine of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
• ⁹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Huadong Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
• ¹⁰ Institute of Digestive Diseases, Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China.
• ¹¹ Biology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
• ¹² Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, California, USA.
• ¹³ AntiCancer Inc, San Diego, California, USA.
• ¹⁴ University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.