Fasting Cancer

“In this revolutionary book, Dr. Valter Longo provides a road map to understand and treat cancer in a new way, an approach that has the potential to change the landscape of cancer therapy forever. It is a must read for all those who are about to start treatment, who have cancer, or who have loved ones with cancer.”—Mark Hyman, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Young Forever “Dr. Longo provides a better understanding of the interactions between cancer, metabolism, and immunity and opens up opportunities to integrate fasting into therapeutic strategies for cancer.”—Heinz-Josef Lenz, MD, professor at USC’s Keck School of Medicine “Dr. Longo’s elegant yet straightforward description of the effects of nutrition and energy balance provides an eye-opening understanding of the potential of fasting on cancer, the immune system, and longevity.”—Debu Tripathy, MD, chairman of the breast medical oncology department at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Valter Longo is the director of the Longevity Institute at the School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He studies basic and clinical research on nutrition, aging, and diseases, with a focus on cancer, autoimmunities, Alzheimer’s disease, and cardiometabolic diseases. Dr. Longo received the 2010 Nathan Shock Lecture Award from the National Institute on Aging, the 2013 Vincent Cristofalo Rising Star Award in Aging Research from the American Federation for Aging Research, and the 2016 Glenn Award for Research in the Biological Mechanisms of Aging. In 2018, Time magazine named him one of the 50 most influential people in health care, and in 2021 Science magazine called him a pioneer in the nutrition and cancer field. He is the author of The Longevity Diet.