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quantifiedbob.com is a personal blog at quantifiedbob.com about health and data. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Mimicking the 5-days Fasting Mimicking Diet”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2014–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2017

Most-linked posts?

  1. Mimicking the 5-days Fasting Mimicking Diet
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-22
  2. /2016/04/fasting-mimicking-diet/
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-02-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)30130-7 It's called a fast mimicking diet or FMD. Quantified Bob took it on last year: https://www.quantifiedbob.com/2016/04/fasting-mimicking-diet...

    Comment linking /2016/04/fasting-mimicking-diet/

    on “Fasting diet 'regenerates diabetic pancreas'”
  2. Submitted Mimicking the Fasting Mimicking Diet as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. If you want to try this the frugal way, check out what this guy did. https://www.quantifiedbob.com/2016/04/fasting-mimicking-diet...

    Comment linking /2016/04/fasting-mimicking-diet/

    on “Can a Diet That Mimics Fasting Turn Back the Clock?”
  4. Submitted Mimicking the 5-days Fasting Mimicking Diet as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. I do not know of studies, other than anecdotes such as this one: > So, during the FMD I lost approximately 4.2 lbs of body fat, while GAINING nearly a pound of muscle! There was also a nice muscle building “rebound” effect once my fast ended and I began to exercise again. https://www.quantifiedbob.com/fasting-mimicking-diet/

    Comment linking /fasting-mimicking-diet/

    on “What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies”
  6. Submitted Ten Things I Learned at the 2014 Quantified Self Europe Conference as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. For those looking for more, here's a quantified (including bloodwork) look by a biohacker who's been on a high-fat low-carb diet for 1.5 years: http://www.quantifiedbob.com/2014/09/bulletproof-diet-interm...

    Comment linking /2014/09/bulletproof-diet-intermittent-fasting-1-5-year-results/

    on “Fat: The New Health Paradigm [pdf]”

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