GQ spoke with the author of The Longevity Diet about why you shouldn't skip breakfast, the crucial difference between fasting and dieting, and the problem with eating too much protein.

Valter Longo was ... Fortuitously, Longo was enrolled at UCLA to study the effects of fasting and caloric restriction on ...

That’s what researcher Dr. Valter Longo, the director of the Longevity Institute ... The Prolon plan avoids this common pitfall of other low-calorie diet and fasting plans by not triggering ...

Prof Longo’s research led to him discovering how exactly our cells detect food – from there, he created a specific low-calorie meal plan ... diseases,” says Prof Valter, who has also written the book, ...

Growing up in Italy, Valter Longo was fascinated by what leads to longevity, especially when it comes to diet. Longo first began studying longevity on a larger scale in 1989. Thirty-five years ...

Valter Longo, 56, a professor of gerontology and director of the USC Longevity Institute, researches the fasting-mimicking diet, which involves interspersing a healthy diet with three to five-day ...

Originally developed by Longo, the FMD is a five-day diet that is low in overall calories, protein and carbohydrates and high in unsaturated fat. The eating plan is designed to mimic a pure fast while ...