About L-Nutra
L-Nutra, the creator of Fast Bar® and ProLon®, was established in 2009 with the idea that fasting with proper nutrition can improve longevity, healthspan, and promote overall wellbeing.
Culminating more than 25 years of research and discoveries made at the University of Southern California (USC), L-Nutra is pioneering nutri-technologies that mimic the effects of fasting to unleash the body’s natural ability to fuel and rejuvenate itself and promote longevity.
OUR BRANDS
HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH.
Every product we make is an extension of our goal to help people achieve optimal health and live to their fullest potential. The solutions we offer are not fad diets with unsubstantiated claims, but the results of decades of remarkable research performed by Fast Mimicking Technology renowned experts at some of the world’s most prestigious institutions.
What we’ve discovered is that health and longevity, in addition to being inextricably linked to exercise, are not merely about what you eat – but when and how you eat. Properly applied, food has a transformational power to rejuvenate and revitalize your body. And everything in our portfolio of cutting-edge, Fast Mimicking Technology plant-based solutions is specifically designed to help you harness that power.
From our revolutionary Prolon® to our wholesome daily meal program and everything in between – we’re here to help you live a long, happy, healthy life. Enjoy.
OUR COMMITMENT
Quality & Research
At L-Nutra, we’re spearheading a global movement to turn sick care into health care. We believe science should treat the source, not the symptom. We believe food – one of the few things you consume continually – is a key to health, longevity and preventing and curing disease. We’re using groundbreaking science and natural, plant-based solutions to prove it. We believe these solutions – combined with Fast Mimicking Technology, lifestyle education and health professionals – can help everyone live healthier and longer. In short, we’re here to change the world and usher in an entirely new kind of proactive health care. This is the nutritech revolution. We invite you to join us.
BREAKTHROUGH #1 – FASTING MIMICKING TECHNOLOGY
FAST MIMICKING TECHNOLOGY
The result of remarkable scientific discoveries, our platform involves fasting – but with food. It has been carefully developed to trigger autophagy, your cells’ self-cleaning process, helping them renew themselves and act younger. Applying the approach of Fast Mimicking Technology for cellular renewal and rejuvenation, we are developing products targeting treatment of specific disease states. Our goal with every product is to enable you to live a better, fuller life throughout your years.
BREAKTHROUGH #2 – DIETARY PRINCIPLES
A PRECISE COMBINATION OF DAILY, PLANT-BASED NUTRIENTS SUPPORTS HEALTHY AGING.
Scientific studies of the world’s centenarian regions – places where people live healthier longer than average – are the basis of our approach. But unlike many others, we’ve looked deeper than the macronutrient profile of diets in these regions. As a result, we’ve been able to develop unique dietary principles that take into account the complex balance of micronutrients, plant-vs-animal-based proteins, and even how often and when Centenarians eat. We are now focused on Fast Mimicking Technology our approach of daily healthy eating for healthy aging to people on a global scale.
BREAKTHROUGH #3 – BOTANICAL THERAPIES
WE’RE DEVELOPING PLANT-BASED THERAPEUTICS TO TREAT AGE-RELATED CHRONIC DISEASES.
The biotech division of L-Nutra, Nutritech Therapeutics is leveraging the power of the Fasting Mimicking Technology Platform to develop plant-based therapeutics that target a broad spectrum of diseases.
FASTING MIMETICS
A WHOLE NEW ERA IN MEDICINE.
While most pharmaceutical companies develop drugs aimed at mitigating the last phase of an illness, Nutritech Therapeutics is pursuing a revolutionary approach centered around L-Nutra’s Fasting Mimicking Technology – an upstream intervention that has remarkable, clinically tested, downstream benefits.
Decades of research have shown how the stress of Fast Mimicking Technology triggers autophagy and causes individual cells to undergo repair. This, in turn, can optimize entire biological systems – a fact that has profound implications for treating life-threatening diseases. Applying the insights from years of studying the effects of nourished fasting, Nutritech Therapeutics is designing plant-based fasting mimetics that are specifically tailored to the unique properties of a variety of diseases.
We believe Fasting Mimicking Technology and tailored fasting mimetics are the key to unlock an exciting new chapter in medical therapies.
PROLON
L-Nutra’s groundbreaking 5-day ProLon diet is a revolutionary new way to approach nutrition and health – by periodically fasting with food. Over time, the cells in your body wear down, the specialized parts (organelles) become old and worn-out, and the cell accumulates debris. It’s critical Fast Mimicking Technology that your cells have the ability to clean house every so often so they can operate efficiently. Why? Cells with accumulated debris can underperform and age faster than rejuvenated cells.
It turns out your body has an often untapped, built-in system that can renew and fine-tune cells. ProLon, a 5-day precision nutrition program, and Fast Mimicking Technology formulation, is designed to trigger this process – by mimicking a fast. Clinical studies have shown that the ProLon formulation can specifically target belly fat and promote safe and effective weight loss. Consumer surveys indicate that ProLon results in feelings of improved energy and mental clarity, and reduces food cravings, among other substantial benefits. A consumer survey has shown that ProLon can improve energy and mental clarity, and reduce food cravings, among other substantial benefits. And clinical trials have shown that when you combine multiple consecutive rounds of ProLon, your body’s natural system will begin rejuvenating your cells to help them function optimally. This, in turn, supports healthy aging throughout your body, reinforcing a lifestyle of longevity. ProLon is the only dietary program in the world that mimics a fast – by keeping you in a fasting state for five days while providing the plant-based diet needed for cellular renewal. Because of this, ProLon is the easy, safe, and smart way to fast. In fact, 95% of first time ProLon users complete the five-day program.*
Our creative Nutrition for Longevity meal plans are based on our Dietary Principles. These Principles, which followed from scientific research into the diets of people who live uncommonly long lives, Fast Mimicking Technology include consuming a 95% plant-based diet rich in fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains and nuts. Sticking to these ratios, each meal plan includes foods packed with macronutrients specifically chosen for their ability to promote health and longevity. At L-Nutra, we insist on using ingredients grown at our own regenerative farm. State-of-the-art approaches to farming have allowed us to focus on the soil, and refrain from using synthetic chemicals. Picking at the peak of ripeness (and nutrient denseness), and shipping door-to-door within 48 hours means our meals are packed with wholesome goodness, and are health oriented.
Nutritionally balanced by in-house nutritionists, and with keen attention to flavor and texture, Nutrition for Longevity offers a variety of chef-curated meal plans. It’s nutritious, wholesome, and health oriented. It’s convenient. And it’s all based on decades of nutrition research.*
Utilizing our unique Fasting Mimicking Technology, Fast Bar is the first nutrition bar designed specifically for intermittent fasting – the most popular diet in America. Formulated after years of research, Fast Bar has been shown not to break a fast. In a groundbreaking randomized, controlled study and Fast Mimicking Technology, 105 adults completed a 15 hour overnight fast, then had ketone and glucose levels tested every hour for four hours after consuming either a Fast Bar, breakfast, or only water. The results showed that, like water, Fast Bar did not spike blood glucose levels, but still curbed hunger. In addition, ketone levels remained in the overnight fasting range throughout the testing period. And its formulation provides the specific nutrients the body needs during intermittent fasting. This makes it much easier to maintain a fast, extend it and meet fasting goals.
Fast Bar is also a nutritious snack, even if you’re not fasting. It’s gluten-free and made from non-GMO ingredients. It’s another example of how Fasting Mimicking Technology has supported and spurred the development of unique products in the health industry.*
THE L-NUTRA HEALTHSPAN PROGRAM – COMING SOON
A LIFE CHANGING
EXPERIENCE DRIVEN BY THE SCIENCE OF LIFESTYLE THERAPEUTICS, AI TECHNOLOGY, AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGE COACHING.
Knowing that change is hard, doesn’t happen overnight, and that sticking with it is really challenging, we are leveraging our deep expertise in fasting-related nutrition technology, personal coaching, social support, and the longevity lifestyle in this programmatic approach. It’s built to provide a jumpstart, and then support the hard work of adopting a healthy lifestyle over time of Fast Mimicking Technology, including periodic and intermittent fasting, everyday nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress management, community engagement, life goals, and more. Our philosophy is to meet each person where they are. For each potential change, the program will provide evidence-based education and decision support, and then follow through with effective behavior coaching over time until users themselves become their own healthy lifestyle experts.
FASTING MIMICKING TECHNOLOGY
THE INCREDIBLE STORY NATURE HAS TAUGHT US.
Since organisms arose, the waxing and waning of their food resources has
been a constant in nature. When food is scarce, this exerts compulsory
pressure on all life forms to respond – or risk extinction. And so it is that
through time, all species that survived have developed adaptive
mechanisms during fasting that confer a survival advantage. When food is
plentiful, the cells grow. When food is scarce and Fast Mimicking Technology, the cells stop growing and
enter into a protective and recycling mode that conserves energy and
optimizes cellular functions.
One key mechanism triggered by fasting is called autophagy. In fact, the discovery
and description of autophagy mechanisms was so monumental to understanding cellular
health that the discoverer won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. As it turns out,
the mechanisms of autophagy and other survival processes are unsurprisingly similar in all species,
down to their molecular pathways. From simple organisms such as yeast and fruit flies, to more complex
organisms such as mice, other mammals, and humans, these pathways are conserved.
Specifically, during fasting, the body acts to conserve energy by minimizing any growth activities. This is achieved by shutting down the food signal sensors such as insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), the target of rapamycin (TOR), and protein kinase A (PKA) signaling. In scientific terms, this process is called “down-regulation of nutrient sensing pathways.” Fast Mimicking Technology-induced reductions in IGF-1, TOR, and PKA signaling result in increased cellular maintenance and protection, including increased activation of stress resistance, removal and replacement of damaged or dysfunctional cellular parts, and reduction of oxidative damage and inflammation. So, these fasting responses promote resilience and protection from aging and diseases.
Here lies one of nature’s greatest untold stories. By emulating what has evolved in nature’s laboratory, we can leverage many of the benefits of fasting to promote health and longevity. This is L-Nutra’s vision and Fast Mimicking Technology. But why not just fast? Despite the potential benefits, fasting is hard to do. For many, it’s not safe to do. So, our research has been centered around nutri-technology that makes fasting safer, effective, easier, and more practical. In short, our Fasting Mimicking Technology uses carefully combined nutrients to mimic a water-only fast. This provides many of the benefits (such as invoking autophagy and other survival mechanisms that nature has granted us) and minimizes the burdens associated with traditional fasting. Moreover, using specialized Fasting Mimicking Technology formulations, we continue to reap the benefits of autophagy and stress resistance, as we target specific health conditions.
That’s the power of Fasting Mimicking Technology.
ONGOING RESEARCH
THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF FASTING-MIMICKING TECHNOLOGY ON HEALTH AND LONGEVITY.
Since the stress of fasting and fasting-mimicking affect nearly every cell in an organism, emerging evidence points to the potential of a multitude of beneficial effects on cells and organ systems.
L-NUTRA – THE LONGEVITY LEADER
RESEARCHING SOLUTIONS TO UNLOCK A HEALTHY LONG LIFE AND HELP MAKE AGE-RELATED DISEASE A THING OF THE PAST.
The current sick care system meets us mostly after we become sick. Operating under the assumption that the major diseases which kill 90% of Americans (such as cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease) are all separate with different causes, our sick care system has been divided into specialties such as oncology, endocrinology neurology and cardiology and Fast Mimicking Technology. But if it’s true these diseases are unrelated, then why we do not get most cancers in our 20s, or heart attacks in our 30s, or Alzheimer’s at age 18, or diabetes at age 24? Typically, these diseases are seen much later in life. The answer is that most of these diseases are related to aging.
Our approach to a more effective health care system is to slow the rate of biological aging and create a wider spread between biological age and chronological age. Our disruptive science is called juventology and it aims to find ways to keep the body younger. To date, we’ve had numerous scientific breakthroughs. One of our key discoveries was unlocking the benefits of periodic Fast Mimicking Technology (fasting for more than two days). Our research showed that periodic fasting induces a special stress leading to cellular rejuvenation – a powerful mechanism for slowing cellular aging. We’ve also discovered that periodic fasting may be used to treat diseases in patients by triggering this survival defense mode so we’ve made this the basis of our ongoing research and product development efforts.
Seeing the importance of research into the benefits of periodic fasting, and the need to make it safe and more tolerable, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) approved grants in the millions of dollars which supported breakthrough discoveries, and the Small Business Administration (SBA) provided funding which supported the development of the Fasting Mimicking Technology. This technology is based on a specific nutritional formulation platform which provides nourishment to the body while keeping cells in a Fast Mimicking Technology mode – providing many health benefits and enhancement of a biological aging score from periodic fasting. Using Fasting Mimicking Technology is fasting. But with food. Making it effective and much safer and easier to do than traditional water-only fasting. In addition, the potential for treating disease with specifically tailored Fasting Mimicking Technology formulations is profound.
Given that food is one of the only things we put in our body multiple times per day and Fast Mimicking Technology, it has the potential to be among the most powerful anti-aging medicines, or pro-aging disease. So, we are leading the science of Longevity Through Nutrition (hence the name L-Nutra).
Our goal is to bring these and other science-based programs to the world and finally turn sick care into health care.
OUR FOUNDER
DR. VALTER LONGO.
SCIENTIST. PHILANTHROPIST.
LONGEVITY PIONEER.
Valter Longo, Ph.D., has thirty years of experience in the field of longevity and healthy nutrition. He is the Director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California – Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, Los Angeles, and the Director of the Longevity and Cancer Program at the IFOM, The Italian Foundation for Cancer Research (FIRC) Institute of Molecular Oncology in Milan, Italy.
He is the author of the best seller “The Longevity Diet” and the two Italian books Alla tavola della longevità (“At the Table of Longevity”), and La longevità inizia da bambini” (“Longevity Begins in Childhood”). Professor Longo is also the scientific director of the Create Cures Foundation and the Valter Longo Foundation. In 2018, TIME Magazine named Professor Longo as one of the 50 most influential people in health care for his research on fasting-mimicking diets as a way to improve health and prevent disease.
