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Fascinatingly, the body already has a mechanism for this: fasting. One of the many beneficial side effects is rapid mucosal atrophy, decreasing villus height and crypt depth.

You can find evidence of this in the literature, but it’s absurdly understudied, because big pharma would rather sell you a subscription to life.

Fortunately there are many good people in the world, especially in the field of medicine, who want to help their patients unconditionally. So there are glimmers of hope, like some of the top cardiologists in the world going against status quo and treating patients with fasting regimes instead of surgery.





Do you have some good links for that? I only found this

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/1/128

which says that the changes reverted quickly after resuming normal feeding




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