Fasting diet 'regenerates diabetic pancreas' - BBC News

Restoring the pancreas through diet could be 'immensely' beneficial, doctors say.

Dr Valter Longo, from the University of Southern California, said: 'Our conclusion is that by pushing the mice into an extreme state and then bringing them back - by starving them and then feeding them again - the cells in the pancreas are triggered to use some kind of developmental reprogramming that rebuilds the part of the organ that's no longer functioning.'