This diet could help treat inflammatory bowel disease
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In a new study, researchers found a special diet holds promise for treating people with inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD.
The diet is a low-calorie “fasting-mimicking” diet. The study showed the fasting-mimicking diet reduced intestinal inflammation and helped intestinal stem cells grow.
With the diet, the researchers reversal of IBD pathology in mice and reduced inflammation in human patients.
The research was conducted by researchers from the University of Southern California.
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