No, a Nobel Prize winner did not recommend fasting for diabetes and certain cancers

FAKE OFF – A viral publication on Facebook seems to misinterpret the work of Nobel Prize winner Yoshinori Ohsumi

On social networks, the practice of fasting has good press. It would help to purify the body… and sometimes even the spirit. On a Facebook post from June 2022 and went viral once more this week, a user recommends “abstain from eating and drinking for sixteen hours”. “This process should be repeated for a period of time in order to reach the organism for maximum utilization and to prevent diseased cells from reacting. It is recommended to repeat the hunger and thirst process two to three days a week,” he continues.

A technique that would allow the body to cleanse itself and eliminate all diseased cells. It would work once morest many diseases, both for cancers and for l’Alzheimer, but also once morest diabetes. Eventually, the dying cells will have recycled, the publication explains. All this demonstration would have been scientifically proven par le Prix Nobel Yoshinori Ohsumi. What is it really? 20 Minutes takes stock.

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On October 3, 2016, biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi and professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work on autophagy, a process allowing cell renewal. “Mutations of autophagy genes (…) Read more at 20 minutes

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