http://www.scifi.com/sfw/current/labnotes.html

Well, time to start drinking beers.

Alcohol and stem cells for all.

the starvation part sounds so-so. But there is some truth behind starving yourself, but it depends what kind of diet you are on. Same goes for drinking to clean arteries. If you are on an Atkins/CKD diet, than you don't have to drink, and starving yourself does not affect you. Since you are depleting sugars completly, and minimizing carbs. Your body switches over from burning glucose, to ketones. Which in turn helps you burn fat, and keeps you healthy. And this actually lowers down LDL cholesterol levels, and highers HDL (good) cholesterol levels. And if you starve, your body won't eat away at its own proteins (because of the diet) and instead will eat away at its own fat. So that with Stem cells should prolong life for quite a while.