Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Unlock Fasting Benefits Without Fasting! Mimio Explained #shorts

18 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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The video explains recent research on a 36‑hour fast, which triggers a unique set of endogenous molecules that rise only during fasting. By screening these molecules, researchers identified a synergistic combination of four specific compounds that together reproduce many of fasting’s cellular health and longevity effects—including anti‑inflammatory, antioxidant, cardioprotective, and metabolic benefits—and even extended lifespan by roughly 96% in animal models. The supplement “Mimeo” is presented as a way to deliver those four fasting‑derived molecules as a pill, allowing users to activate the same pathways and reap fasting’s advantages without actually abstaining from food.

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We looked at what happens in the human body during a 36-hour fast. And what we saw was that when you fast for 36 hours, there's this unique set of molecules that are produced by the body that are really only elevated during a fast. And when we screened through those molecules, we were able to find this synergistic combination of 4 of them that when we put them together could recreate a lot of these cellular health and longevity benefits of fasting. So anti-inflammatory effects, antioxidant effects, cardioprotective effects, you know, metabolic health effects. We could even extend lifespan in animal models by 96% just through supplementation. Hmm. So what Mimeo is and what it's doing is it's taking the molecules that your body would naturally produce during a 36-hour fast and then just giving them back to you as a supplement so that you can recreate fasting at the molecular level, activate those same beneficial pathways, get those same benefits. Of fasting, but without actually having to fast.