So these kind of videos take me AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGESSSSSS to make, so would make my day if you like, share, etc!! :D And what do you think...do you follow any diet?
Interesting, I see a lot of parallells with "How not to die" by Michael Greger, MD. If you haven't read it, that may be another one to pile on the backlog. Regarding lactose intolerance, I've heard an (absolutely void of evidence) tale about when the Vikings established a settlement in North America. At first the Vikings were at peace with the Native Americans, however when they traded some milk with them, the natives, who unfortunately were lactose intolerant, thought they were being poisoned and retaliated by wiping out the small Viking settlement.
I'm getting alot of mix information about the diet of Sardinia and Okinawa. Some sources say they do eat a lot of meat like goats in Sardinia or in case of Okinawa pigs. Both eat a lot of fish?? In case of Sardinia also diary products like goat milk and cheese?? Either its true or possibility fake news?? Can anyone confirm.
Thiese videos ara amazing, thank you so much for creating and sharing them. English is my second language so I really appreciate that you write along what you say. These are really very complex issues. Thank you!!!
Just want to say that I love your videos. You touch on interesting topics, and I always end up with 2-3 articles to read after watching your videos. I would also like to add that you have a nice narrative voice, and I love your small laughs. Looking forward to a video about you and your research!
Thank you Sheekey for all of your research and your wonderful presentations. I am a 63 year old who strives for this kind of diet. Another thing I noticed is that all of the, "Blue Zone" areas appear to be near sea level. I'm guessing that may also be a factor since research has been recently released on the positive effects of high oxygen chambers in lengthening telomers. Be well and keep up the good work.
Love your summary. For point #7, confine eating period to 6 hours because the 18 hours fasting period slows down the aging process. And not eating 3 hours before bedtime is an excellent point.
Thanks for the great summary of the book! It’s really hard to know how to interpret some of this data. The typical conclusion from a study finding different diets associated with different longevities is that every difference in the inputs matters. But, maybe high consumption of olive oil is the only actual determinant, and the rest is irrelevant. Until someone does an RCT looking at a single factor, we won’t know. Or maybe two factors are synergistic, and you need BOTH low sugar AND olive oil , or maybe … there is some other explanation. Pretty sure we’ll still be trying to figure this out 30 years from now.
How do they guard against observer bias? For instance, I understand the animal protein trials with regard to nutrient sensor stimulation, however IGF-1 is akin to insulin, and the mention of starchy carbs in the Okinawa diet proportions always raises an alarm with me because, as you included in your summary, it's the absolute amount that is important. The University of Sydney 2014 insulin index demonstrates quite clearly that starchy carbs stimulate large amounts of insulin (and by implication, IGF-1). Also, this hate of saturated fat has gone on long enough. Our body produces fat as about 3:2 monounsaturated to saturated. This is likely to be the ideal fat consumption, with only 3% EFAs.
Insulin spikes are not important. It is insulin level 2 hours after eating that is important. If that is elevated, that is an issue. The body is designed to increase insulin immediately after eating. That is just normal functioning. I heard this recently from genuine experts, so I thought I would pass it on.
@@ChessMasterNate Just as too little insulin is not healthy, consider type 1 diabetes, neither is too much insulin. How much carbohydrate does the body need? Enough to prevent over-depletion of glycogen.
@@Starbreaker2012 Technically, the body does not "need" it. Gluconeogenesis and Glycogenesis can be done by the liver and can use fat or whatever is available. Muscle gets its glycogen by transforming glucose the liver releases into the bloodstream. However, I do think there is an optimal range for long life. I think that is roughly 55%-65% of calories. I have not looked that up in a while, and I am not sure where I got that. I think there are a lot of harmful byproducts made while metabolizing fats and proteins. Or more than carbs. But we obviously need protein, and at least minimal amounts of omega 3, and 6, and perhaps 9. There are a lot of harmful saturated fats. Fats in general are often filled with Advanced Glycation End-products. Butter has the highest AGE level of any food tested other than bacon. Most of the others are pretty bad. Avocado and probably pistachio are best. But sunflower, safflower and corn oils are not terrible in regard to AGEs. Pretty high is olive oil, which has been pushed heavily. It is possible the polyphenols confer more benefit than the AGEs cause harm, but you can also get those from a supplement, or other polyphenols from other substances like green tea, grape seed or dark chocolate. I happen to be allergic to the olive oil polyphenols, so I take green tea extract, and grape seed extract. Hopefully that is sufficient for maximum benefit. I'd take the chocolate too, but there is currently a lot of lead and cadmium in chocolate, and no way to be certain I am getting a clean source.
I get your disclaimer about advice yet after decades of using the medical industry and caring for my kids, parents and grandparents I found that the "official" medical industry plagued with marginal, incorrect, bad and tainted advice. A white coat doesn't make it right. Buyer beware, educate yourself and take control of your own health. Thank you for your videos. Keep posting please.
Wonder if the low-protein high-carb suggestion has been tried before? We did that for years; it was called the Macrobiotic Diet. I do not recommend. The MD was 60 percent whole grains, 30 percent veggies, a bit of beans and, rarely, a bit of fish. It certainly makes one skinny. Many MD gurus came to a sticky end.
Listening to this excellent vid, one problem i'm seeing is the effort to research aging across a broad sprectrum of individuals with various health concerns. Might it be wiser to focus on optimal diets for totally healthy persons already observing the obvious age enhancers such as exercise, non-smoking, etc.? Longo confuses waist circumference with the main event so that his actual helpful info seems to fail to exist..
Would you consider doing a similar style video on ´Lifespan´ by David Sinclair? I´m halfway through and am waiting to come across the ´no ATP or NAD=30secs later no me´ themed quote xD. LOVE your videos. How long on average does it take you to make one of these?
When Longo launched this book the mTOR was demonized. Nowadays many longevity experts disagree with this idea. Many of them are eating a carnivore diet. Many people can't tolerate well lots of vegetables and legumes. I really would like to see a debate between Longo and Paul Saladino/Mercola. Good job !
Ffs! "High protein is good NOW high protein is bad! High carb is bad NOW high carb is good!" - I am getting tired of the whole "healthy diet" community roping us with their constant arguments. I just want to live healthy ffs!
Good video - thank You. I am getting a bit annoyed that You are using grams and pounds (15:47) in one sentence. If You use metric please stick to metric, or give the pounds value also in KG. The pounds are totally useless for most of the planet.
This is all well and good, and consistent with the recommendations of the main nutrition experts for probably the last 3 decades at least, but in pragmatic terms, it's very difficult for Americans to find even 30 minutes out of their day to organize such complex diets. Veggies, legumes, fish, unsaturated fats, whole grains --- sure. But who has time in the mad rush of the world to focus on that at every meal? No one that I know. Further, I don't enjoy cooking at all (and am terrible at it), nor do I enjoy going the to grocery store, and I don't think I'm alone in that account. Vegetables spoil after a short period, making your need to spend more time planning and optimizing meals or making yet another trip to the grocery store which you don't have time for a necessity. I've tried using companies which pack ready-made meals for active and busy lifestyles in the past (Freshly, Soylent, etc). These are supposed to optimize for healthy diets such as the one described in this book (basically the Mediterranean diet), but in my experience they're still off the mark from it. The trouble is that vegetables spoil, and it's difficult to ship meals with mostly vegetables in them, perhaps. Or maybe I've just missed the best companies who can do this, I don't know. But it seems like, given the fact that almost every nutritionist (regardless of what they are preaching) seems to have a very specific set of foods which we need to eat and avoid, they would be wanting to make it as easy as possible for us to actually follow their recommendations. We don't live on an island in huts with nothing better to do than harvest food and plan meals. We're Americans -- we work 70 hour weeks, have friends and family, and try new things in our spare time. Please, nutritionists, make this easy on us.
Maybe the next thing you should try in your spare time is taking some accountability. It seems like you misunderstand the job of nutritionists and scientists. They do not exist to feed you fairy tales. They are there to deliver the truth. If you're unwilling to accept that, that's on you and it's nobody else's responsibility to make you listen.
I'm probably going to wind up on something like Soylent or elemental diet soon due to inflammation in my esophagus. My daughter was almost living off Ensure for a while there (Soylent isn't certified GF yet so that would not work for her). She also spent several weeks on a feeding tube in the hospital on Osmolyte. Unfortunately they would try to get her to eat stuff it later turned out she is allergic to (I kept telling them... I took her to see a mast cell specialist on my own after she was released to get properly diagnosed) and she would throw up her feeding tube and they would have to re-insert ans then x-ray her to confirm the position. Lots of radiation.
I don’t understand the problem. Putting healthy foods in your basket takes no more time than putting unhealthy ones in it...if you’re saying you can’t be bothered to think then that’s a very poor excuse.
stay off fast food. limit heavily processed food, especially processed carbohydrates. look for compromises with yourself as far as the health and convenience. as far as vegetables are concerned, i understand where you're coming from. that's why i have a blender that i use for blueberry/parsley or spinach or broccoli smoothies. i also buy premade organic celery and low sugar green vegetable juice. that can be expensive if it's not on sale. but i agree with the others on your thread. these scientists owe us nothing and anything learned is pure beneficial. and i almost forgot, probiotic foods. I've been getting kefir and it's not good but i drink it. I've also started eating 2 tablespoons of sauerkraut which i do not like. i make believe they're crunchy noodles.
Odd comment. If you buy healthy foood at the grocery store (fruits, vegetables, fish, etc.) and only have those healthy options in your home and simply order the salad when you go to a restaurant you'll do fine. It seems like you are the one making it complicated.
Good review of the book but the end point is eat a Mediterranean diet, don't be overweight, and practice some form of intermittent fasting. Sad to say but this will never work in the USA unless they make broccoli taste like french fry's and Lima beans taste like pulled pork.
I think the main reason high protein diets have worse outcomes is the generation of lots of Advanced Glycation End-products during cooking meats. Cooked in ways that don't generate lots of AGEs (boiled or steamed), I suspect they are fine. Though, I do think periodic fasting or fasting mimicking (not talking about skipping dinner, but rather several days in a row of very low or no protein intake and very low or no calories at the same time) has major benefits. All centenarian populations have low rates of cancer. Or at least cancer that kills them. It does not matter where they live. In the US, only about 4% of centenarians eventually die of cancer. Something like 32% of the Americans that die at 60 or 70 die of cancer. I did the fasting mimicking diet several times. I came to the conclusion that there were diminishing returns, which I took to mean, that I really don't need to do it as often as suggested. After doing it, say 3 times, I think it makes sense to do it no more than every 9 months. The first time though was amazing. Such a huge difference. Too frequent, and I was very slow healing, presumably because too many senescent cells involved in healing were harvested to provide protein for the rest.
He recommends 12 hour fasts, low protein before the age of 65 and higher protein after. Both bringing longevity benefits. He only does this diet Monday to Friday himself.
well building quality and natural muscle is also beneficial for longevity and for that you need protein. I lost around 135 pounds, built (some) muscle and reversed my fatty liver by using fasting (up to 4 days) and doing excercise and eating moderate protein. By this i tried to incoporate elemetns from both Valter Longos studies and the scientific consensus about building muscle/excercise While i see the advantages of a pescetarian diet, things like fermented dairy, grass fed red meat or free range eggs are also healthy in their regards consumed in moderate amounts and mice studies should be taken with a grain of salt.
I don't see how you can follow such a diet without being underweight. I'm not saying it wouldn't work for longevity. Just that you'd have to be comfortable having the composition of a twig.
I am looking for a Fasting Mimicking Diet cookbook with recipes and precise amounts of foods/macronutrients. So that I can just buy and prepare those FMD foods myself. :-) Anyone who has some recommendations?
Hi! Very interesting video but automatic English subtitles don't work properly. I'm Spanish and I have sometimes problems understanding your pronuntiation. Please, could you generate English subtitles again? Thank you very much ;)
Low protein diet is a sure way to suffer osteopenia and sarcopenia... mice in their cages may not suffer hip fractures but senior humans often do, and they usually result in death within a year or two.
Sheekey - you need to focus. Either this is a book summary or a step through of research? Valter Longo is a Professor of Aging Research - just report what he has to say - if you don't mind...
The blue zones are places where records are terribly kept. Some of them have high smoking rates and many other things that cal into question their claims about human longevity there. Anyone using data from those is being naive.
The data from the blue zones is bad and people that look at it without skepticism are being sloppy as scientists. As a result I have personally categorized longo as the least reliable of all the longevity scientists.
Came across something interesting about spermidine - it inhibits methemoglobin formation induced by dopamine in erythrocytes from Parkinson's patients. Would post a link, but YT's spam filter will just eat it.
All this analysing is great, but do people ever live because if we live a natural cycle of life it will end for all. But not everyone lives, so go out and do what makes you happy, but not detrimental to your health, from what we know and from what science tells us we are only here ONCE. You can live a mediocre 80 years or an amazing 60 years I know what I'm choosing.
You are being fooled, look up the term blue zone please... Healthy living and a fantastic lifestyle are not mutually exclusive... You are being lied to for a profit ... Also there are crazy better sources of dopamine than the ones America deems legal and suggested.
@@eyewonder6448 I know some information about the blue zones I also know that hard work and a healthy diet reflect a good lifestyle, alcohol, smoking gluttony are going to destroy a person. Question is how can the body heal if a person is damaged how can one up regulate their DNA if they can't exercise to a high level, because their life was changed through an Illness.
@@Chris-kr7gg You have been led to believe that healthy living is hard and problematic, please let me assure you it is not.. .. even with the limitations of 21st century technology... You have been programmed to be incompetent at living because you are cattle on a farm.. The analogy might be harsh... But accurate. Most are either milked, screwed, or slaughtered for profit, which category do you think you might fall into?
@@eyewonder6448 the same one as you, I know all about the Orwell books and the great reset and making people machines and weak question is how do you fix it. I was very healthy a disease destroyed the quality of my life which changed it long before the matrix wake-up.
Wow so little protein, so exercise is not a part of the equation I guess :) .. Current "standard" for building a maintaining muscle is around 0.8-1g per pound of body weight. I guess you have to choose between living long or living in the good shape.
@@TheSheekeyScienceShow Well I would like to know. From what I know (I know something about exercise) It depends on the intensity but ~3 times a week should about right for most people. Some aerobic exercise (lit HIIT) some weights. Stretching. However to support regimen like this even considering that building muscle is not a goal you still need to eat probably at least twice as much as recommended above. With such a low protein diet you will end up very skinny and weak and what's interesting is as you get to high age having low muscle mass is correlated with higher mortality (like hip fractures).
Recommendations are 0.8g per Kg not per pound. Valter’s upper limit is 0.79g per kg so more or less the same. If you are fasting or implementing a ketogenic diet then the beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) produced is glucose sparing and therefore muscle protective because the brain can use BHB for fuel instead of glucose from gluconeogenesis from muscle protein.
@@GodfreyMann Well I am not sure from were get this data but this is pretty mainstream knowledge and pretty much wildly accepted recommendation anywhere you look. There is various research that maybe suggested little less but I am ensuring you it's ~ 0.8-1.2g per pound not Kg. (we are talking here about training individual who trains couple of time a week)
Hmm protien intake depends on factors its being used for. if you are a body builder that IGF 1 is going to be used in the right places like for muscle growth and maintenance. Unfortunately protien is just too important and we bodybuilders need enough of it otherwise i notice muscle loss. IGF 1 does not cause cancer. Protien is important and we often don't get enough and yet cancer rates are still high. Keto is a good start for longevity as sugar is the primary cause for disease
@@user-li1mj1jx2j Look at Arnold, 70+ and still healthy. Lots of bodybuilders well into their later ages with no kydney problems or health issues. The guy is a Dr not a biologist or scientist
The stuffy sounding, nasally and thick accent of the narrator is quite a barrier to hearing the important information well. Quite a challenge to listen to that voice. Good summary, but speaker should work on a clean delivery or should use a narrator with a clear, crisp, well enunciating voice.
Why do longevity researchers not produce anything useful? They are like the doctors taking credit for longevity when in reality it was access to food, refrigeration, and essential nutrients, or removal of extreme toxins. What a bunch of crock: low protein results in muscle wasting, and muscle mass has the highest correlation with mortality, ie longevity. Never mind muscle mass is essential to buffer glucose preventing diabetes etc. No better than gut biome researchers, have no clue.
Low protein as in not overdoing it, you've been indoctrinated into thinking you need 1+ grams of protein per pound of body weight or something ridiculous as that or to overly emphasize it. The real numbers to follow in general is more like .8-1 grams per kilogram of lean mass and when your calculate the numbers you need it's probably quite a bit less than you previously thought you needed. Another thing is just eating protein and no matter how much of it you eat is going to have little effect on your muscle mass, what matters more by far in preserving your muscles is how you stimulate them.
I find it incredibly racist and bigoted of Longo to imply that we should focus on eating "like our ancestors" or foods from "our homelands". There is just one race, the human race and the melanin content of your skin does not have any influence on your dietary choices. Can we find out more about this so called doctor's background? Italy does have a problem with latent right-wing extremism so I'd be careful with praising this guy.
Trial studies are the factual science vs error laden epidemiology studies (subjects diet lifestyle memory) which are based on usually only the subjects memory or worse, their honesty The studies she’s talking about are using bs oils like corn oil as “fats” which is an inflammatory oil. She’s citing flawed studies. I’d unsubscribe from here she’s not even aware of my two problems with her “research”. She just likes to impress people with jargon, move on!
The information is complex, as a scientist I appreciate the surrounding info. She is very smart so she is considering all the pros and cons, not just for the evidence but for the effects.
Without the explanation as to how a diet works then it’s not possible to decide which one is best. Furthermore, if you don’t understand the details then there’s a high chance of you implementing it incorrectly and not getting the results you were after. If that happens you might end up blaming a perfectly good diet instead of yourself...but then ignorance is bliss.
So these kind of videos take me AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGESSSSSS to make, so would make my day if you like, share, etc!! :D And what do you think...do you follow any diet?
Interesting, I see a lot of parallells with "How not to die" by Michael Greger, MD. If you haven't read it, that may be another one to pile on the backlog. Regarding lactose intolerance, I've heard an (absolutely void of evidence) tale about when the Vikings established a settlement in North America. At first the Vikings were at peace with the Native Americans, however when they traded some milk with them, the natives, who unfortunately were lactose intolerant, thought they were being poisoned and retaliated by wiping out the small Viking settlement.
I try to follow the advice from Dr. Michael Greger as well. I also like the learnings from the Blue Zones.
I'm getting alot of mix information about the diet of Sardinia and Okinawa. Some sources say they do eat a lot of meat like goats in Sardinia or in case of Okinawa pigs. Both eat a lot of fish?? In case of Sardinia also diary products like goat milk and cheese?? Either its true or possibility fake news?? Can anyone confirm.
Thks a lot.
Thiese videos ara amazing, thank you so much for creating and sharing them. English is my second language so I really appreciate that you write along what you say. These are really very complex issues. Thank you!!!
Just want to say that I love your videos. You touch on interesting topics, and I always end up with 2-3 articles to read after watching your videos. I would also like to add that you have a nice narrative voice, and I love your small laughs. Looking forward to a video about you and your research!
Thank you Sheekey for all of your research and your wonderful presentations. I am a 63 year old who strives for this kind of diet. Another thing I noticed is that all of the, "Blue Zone" areas appear to be near sea level. I'm guessing that may also be a factor since research has been recently released on the positive effects of high oxygen chambers in lengthening telomers. Be well and keep up the good work.
Interesting..I thought some of them in Asia and/or South America were fairly elevated.Thx imma check it out.
Some of them are in rather remote mountainous areas.
Love your summary. For point #7, confine eating period to 6 hours because the 18 hours fasting period slows down the aging process. And not eating 3 hours before bedtime is an excellent point.
Thanks for the great summary of the book!
It’s really hard to know how to interpret some of this data. The typical conclusion from a study finding different diets associated with different longevities is that every difference in the inputs matters. But, maybe high consumption of olive oil is the only actual determinant, and the rest is irrelevant. Until someone does an RCT looking at a single factor, we won’t know. Or maybe two factors are synergistic, and you need BOTH low sugar AND olive oil , or maybe … there is some other explanation.
Pretty sure we’ll still be trying to figure this out 30 years from now.
Thanks for the great videos! The longevity and fasting mimicking diets work very well for me.
most indepth and scientifically correct video on this diet, awesome
Hi Sheekey - I love all your videos, the pace, the style of presentation, the voice, the drawings, the clarity, etc. Thanks & please keep it up :)
so high protein is bad? but muscles are good but they consist of protein? and healthy foods like nuts or legumes have much protein?
Wow, love your channel! Thanks for doing this!
How do they guard against observer bias? For instance, I understand the animal protein trials with regard to nutrient sensor stimulation, however IGF-1 is akin to insulin, and the mention of starchy carbs in the Okinawa diet proportions always raises an alarm with me because, as you included in your summary, it's the absolute amount that is important. The University of Sydney 2014 insulin index demonstrates quite clearly that starchy carbs stimulate large amounts of insulin (and by implication, IGF-1).
Also, this hate of saturated fat has gone on long enough. Our body produces fat as about 3:2 monounsaturated to saturated. This is likely to be the ideal fat consumption, with only 3% EFAs.
Insulin spikes are not important. It is insulin level 2 hours after eating that is important. If that is elevated, that is an issue. The body is designed to increase insulin immediately after eating. That is just normal functioning. I heard this recently from genuine experts, so I thought I would pass it on.
@@ChessMasterNate Just as too little insulin is not healthy, consider type 1 diabetes, neither is too much insulin. How much carbohydrate does the body need? Enough to prevent over-depletion of glycogen.
@@Starbreaker2012 Technically, the body does not "need" it. Gluconeogenesis and Glycogenesis can be done by the liver and can use fat or whatever is available. Muscle gets its glycogen by transforming glucose the liver releases into the bloodstream. However, I do think there is an optimal range for long life. I think that is roughly 55%-65% of calories. I have not looked that up in a while, and I am not sure where I got that.
I think there are a lot of harmful byproducts made while metabolizing fats and proteins. Or more than carbs. But we obviously need protein, and at least minimal amounts of omega 3, and 6, and perhaps 9.
There are a lot of harmful saturated fats. Fats in general are often filled with Advanced Glycation End-products. Butter has the highest AGE level of any food tested other than bacon. Most of the others are pretty bad. Avocado and probably pistachio are best. But sunflower, safflower and corn oils are not terrible in regard to AGEs. Pretty high is olive oil, which has been pushed heavily. It is possible the polyphenols confer more benefit than the AGEs cause harm, but you can also get those from a supplement, or other polyphenols from other substances like green tea, grape seed or dark chocolate. I happen to be allergic to the olive oil polyphenols, so I take green tea extract, and grape seed extract. Hopefully that is sufficient for maximum benefit. I'd take the chocolate too, but there is currently a lot of lead and cadmium in chocolate, and no way to be certain I am getting a clean source.
Love the way you talk and
waiting to see you live soon!
I get your disclaimer about advice yet after decades of using the medical industry and caring for my kids, parents and grandparents I found that the "official" medical industry plagued with marginal, incorrect, bad and tainted advice. A white coat doesn't make it right. Buyer beware, educate yourself and take control of your own health.
Thank you for your videos. Keep posting please.
Wonder if the low-protein high-carb suggestion has been tried before? We did that for years; it was called the Macrobiotic Diet. I do not recommend. The MD was 60 percent whole grains, 30 percent veggies, a bit of beans and, rarely, a bit of fish. It certainly makes one skinny. Many MD gurus came to a sticky end.
That actually sounds very similar to the diets of the blue zones 🤔
Thank You, for your effort and data. Bravo to Dr. Longo who is born in my town Genova (in English Sampdoria :-), Italia.
Listening to this excellent vid, one problem i'm seeing is the effort to research aging across a broad sprectrum of individuals with various health concerns. Might it be wiser to focus on optimal diets for totally healthy persons already observing the obvious age enhancers such as exercise, non-smoking, etc.? Longo confuses waist circumference with the main event so that his actual helpful info seems to fail to exist..
13:55, final pillow
15:12 summary
great video! I am on a binge marathon lol. how do you know if certain foods could cuase auto - immune response. like red onions in your case
Would you consider doing a similar style video on ´Lifespan´ by David Sinclair? I´m halfway through and am waiting to come across the ´no ATP or NAD=30secs later no me´ themed quote xD. LOVE your videos. How long on average does it take you to make one of these?
i have already!
It makes sense to fuel the body with high test when the components age.
When Longo launched this book the mTOR was demonized. Nowadays many longevity experts disagree with this idea. Many of them are eating a carnivore diet.
Many people can't tolerate well lots of vegetables and legumes.
I really would like to see a debate between Longo and Paul Saladino/Mercola.
Good job !
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If you slowly work legumes and vegetables into your diet over time your digestive system will adapt...and you'll be more healthy.
@@TrendyStone plant based food makes me fat, meat makes me lean, that is my experience.
@@Dodo-ym8cc Ya see… it’s a math equation. Too much (fill in the blank with ANY food) makes you fat.
Ffs! "High protein is good NOW high protein is bad! High carb is bad NOW high carb is good!" - I am getting tired of the whole "healthy diet" community roping us with their constant arguments. I just want to live healthy ffs!
Good video - thank You. I am getting a bit annoyed that You are using grams and pounds (15:47) in one sentence. If You use metric please stick to metric, or give the pounds value also in KG. The pounds are totally useless for most of the planet.
Thank you . Very well done summary. What was said about salt in the diet?
This is all well and good, and consistent with the recommendations of the main nutrition experts for probably the last 3 decades at least, but in pragmatic terms, it's very difficult for Americans to find even 30 minutes out of their day to organize such complex diets. Veggies, legumes, fish, unsaturated fats, whole grains --- sure. But who has time in the mad rush of the world to focus on that at every meal? No one that I know. Further, I don't enjoy cooking at all (and am terrible at it), nor do I enjoy going the to grocery store, and I don't think I'm alone in that account. Vegetables spoil after a short period, making your need to spend more time planning and optimizing meals or making yet another trip to the grocery store which you don't have time for a necessity.
I've tried using companies which pack ready-made meals for active and busy lifestyles in the past (Freshly, Soylent, etc). These are supposed to optimize for healthy diets such as the one described in this book (basically the Mediterranean diet), but in my experience they're still off the mark from it. The trouble is that vegetables spoil, and it's difficult to ship meals with mostly vegetables in them, perhaps. Or maybe I've just missed the best companies who can do this, I don't know. But it seems like, given the fact that almost every nutritionist (regardless of what they are preaching) seems to have a very specific set of foods which we need to eat and avoid, they would be wanting to make it as easy as possible for us to actually follow their recommendations.
We don't live on an island in huts with nothing better to do than harvest food and plan meals. We're Americans -- we work 70 hour weeks, have friends and family, and try new things in our spare time. Please, nutritionists, make this easy on us.
Maybe the next thing you should try in your spare time is taking some accountability. It seems like you misunderstand the job of nutritionists and scientists. They do not exist to feed you fairy tales. They are there to deliver the truth. If you're unwilling to accept that, that's on you and it's nobody else's responsibility to make you listen.
I'm probably going to wind up on something like Soylent or elemental diet soon due to inflammation in my esophagus. My daughter was almost living off Ensure for a while there (Soylent isn't certified GF yet so that would not work for her). She also spent several weeks on a feeding tube in the hospital on Osmolyte. Unfortunately they would try to get her to eat stuff it later turned out she is allergic to (I kept telling them... I took her to see a mast cell specialist on my own after she was released to get properly diagnosed) and she would throw up her feeding tube and they would have to re-insert ans then x-ray her to confirm the position. Lots of radiation.
I don’t understand the problem.
Putting healthy foods in your basket takes no more time than putting unhealthy ones in it...if you’re saying you can’t be bothered to think then that’s a very poor excuse.
stay off fast food. limit heavily processed food, especially processed carbohydrates. look for compromises with yourself as far as the health and convenience. as far as vegetables are concerned, i understand where you're coming from. that's why i have a blender that i use for blueberry/parsley or spinach or broccoli smoothies. i also buy premade organic celery and low sugar green vegetable juice. that can be expensive if it's not on sale. but i agree with the others on your thread. these scientists owe us nothing and anything learned is pure beneficial. and i almost forgot, probiotic foods. I've been getting kefir and it's not good but i drink it. I've also started eating 2 tablespoons of sauerkraut which i do not like. i make believe they're crunchy noodles.
Odd comment. If you buy healthy foood at the grocery store (fruits, vegetables, fish, etc.) and only have those healthy options in your home and simply order the salad when you go to a restaurant you'll do fine. It seems like you are the one making it complicated.
15:25 'Eat mostly vegan'. What would that entail? Insipid Inflammatory 'vegetable' oils over nourishing beef dripping and butter?
Whole food plants and seeds nuts. No oil
extra virgin olive oil
Many thanks for this excellent book review. Since this book is over 3 yrs old, thanks for you summarizing recent literature.
Good review of the book but the end point is eat a Mediterranean diet, don't be overweight, and practice some form of intermittent fasting. Sad to say but this will never work in the USA unless they make broccoli taste like french fry's and Lima beans taste like pulled pork.
sounds like the amen ra protocol.. only his protocol is much more strict and rigorous with many added techniques to maximize lifespan.
I think the main reason high protein diets have worse outcomes is the generation of lots of Advanced Glycation End-products during cooking meats. Cooked in ways that don't generate lots of AGEs (boiled or steamed), I suspect they are fine. Though, I do think periodic fasting or fasting mimicking (not talking about skipping dinner, but rather several days in a row of very low or no protein intake and very low or no calories at the same time) has major benefits.
All centenarian populations have low rates of cancer. Or at least cancer that kills them. It does not matter where they live. In the US, only about 4% of centenarians eventually die of cancer. Something like 32% of the Americans that die at 60 or 70 die of cancer.
I did the fasting mimicking diet several times. I came to the conclusion that there were diminishing returns, which I took to mean, that I really don't need to do it as often as suggested. After doing it, say 3 times, I think it makes sense to do it no more than every 9 months. The first time though was amazing. Such a huge difference. Too frequent, and I was very slow healing, presumably because too many senescent cells involved in healing were harvested to provide protein for the rest.
So, would you say that fasting remains the most important, or that low-protein diets is more valuable?
He recommends 12 hour fasts, low protein before the age of 65 and higher protein after. Both bringing longevity benefits. He only does this diet Monday to Friday himself.
but but I just started a high protein diet and weight training!
this is literally me
Haha. Same guys
Thank you for your informative videos! ❤
well building quality and natural muscle is also beneficial for longevity and for that you need protein. I lost around 135 pounds, built (some) muscle and reversed my fatty liver by using fasting (up to 4 days) and doing excercise and eating moderate protein. By this i tried to incoporate elemetns from both Valter Longos studies and the scientific consensus about building muscle/excercise
While i see the advantages of a pescetarian diet, things like fermented dairy, grass fed red meat or free range eggs are also healthy in their regards consumed in moderate amounts and mice studies should be taken with a grain of salt.
I don't see how you can follow such a diet without being underweight. I'm not saying it wouldn't work for longevity. Just that you'd have to be comfortable having the composition of a twig.
I am looking for a Fasting Mimicking Diet cookbook with recipes and precise amounts of foods/macronutrients. So that I can just buy and prepare those FMD foods myself. :-)
Anyone who has some recommendations?
It's honestly the corn oil doing the damage. Nothing to do with the sugar or calories
I had to clap at the end of that video.
Thanks
We Indian's too follow a similar kindoff diet.
Hi! Very interesting video but automatic English subtitles don't work properly. I'm Spanish and I have sometimes problems understanding your pronuntiation. Please, could you generate English subtitles again? Thank you very much ;)
Point 9 suggests that when you reach a healthy weight, you can stop this and eat whatever you want, but I don't think that's the idea, really.
I was curious if you need a video editor, let me know if you need my help in the future!
Am good for now, but thanks for the offer!
@@TheSheekeyScienceShow ok!
Thanks!
Low protein diet is a sure way to suffer osteopenia and sarcopenia... mice in their cages may not suffer hip fractures but senior humans often do, and they usually result in death within a year or two.
Cheers for pulling this together. Great video 👍
Sheekey - you need to focus. Either this is a book summary or a step through of research? Valter Longo is a Professor of Aging Research - just report what he has to say - if you don't mind...
What about people with low energy or mitocondrial disease ? Shall we fast ? Maybe not !?
Great content
Really enjoyed this one, loved the humour. Great book review. Got to ask, why red onions?
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The blue zones are places where records are terribly kept. Some of them have high smoking rates and many other things that cal into question their claims about human longevity there. Anyone using data from those is being naive.
Gotcha.I think a lot can be gathered from looking at blue zones but is far from the scientific method or real meta-analysis.
The data from the blue zones is bad and people that look at it without skepticism are being sloppy as scientists. As a result I have personally categorized longo as the least reliable of all the longevity scientists.
Look into the Adventist health study. That's a Blue Zone that was more rigorously studied.
@fab And the art is exquisite.
Some say spermidine promotes autophagy. It would be nice to hear your thought about it.
Came across something interesting about spermidine - it inhibits methemoglobin formation induced by dopamine in erythrocytes from Parkinson's patients. Would post a link, but YT's spam filter will just eat it.
Good to know.
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All this analysing is great, but do people ever live because if we live a natural cycle of life it will end for all. But not everyone lives, so go out and do what makes you happy, but not detrimental to your health, from what we know and from what science tells us we are only here ONCE. You can live a mediocre 80 years or an amazing 60 years I know what I'm choosing.
You are being fooled, look up the term blue zone please...
Healthy living and a fantastic lifestyle are not mutually exclusive...
You are being lied to for a profit
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Also there are crazy better sources of dopamine than the ones America deems legal and suggested.
@@eyewonder6448 I know some information about the blue zones I also know that hard work and a healthy diet reflect a good lifestyle, alcohol, smoking gluttony are going to destroy a person. Question is how can the body heal if a person is damaged how can one up regulate their DNA if they can't exercise to a high level, because their life was changed through an Illness.
@@Chris-kr7gg You have been led to believe that healthy living is hard and problematic, please let me assure you it is not..
.. even with the limitations of 21st century technology...
You have been programmed to be incompetent at living because you are cattle on a farm..
The analogy might be harsh... But accurate.
Most are either milked, screwed, or slaughtered for profit, which category do you think you might fall into?
@@eyewonder6448 the same one as you, I know all about the Orwell books and the great reset and making people machines and weak question is how do you fix it. I was very healthy a disease destroyed the quality of my life which changed it long before the matrix wake-up.
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I read a study that showed out of all diets, pescatarians live the longest, more so than vegans...
So, are you saying correlation = causation 🤔
omega 3 + spermidine
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Wow so little protein, so exercise is not a part of the equation I guess :) .. Current "standard" for building a maintaining muscle is around 0.8-1g per pound of body weight. I guess you have to choose between living long or living in the good shape.
There is probably am optimal level of exercise that is best for longevity... Determining what that would be does not seem trivial
@@TheSheekeyScienceShow Well I would like to know. From what I know (I know something about exercise) It depends on the intensity but ~3 times a week should about right for most people. Some aerobic exercise (lit HIIT) some weights. Stretching. However to support regimen like this even considering that building muscle is not a goal you still need to eat probably at least twice as much as recommended above. With such a low protein diet you will end up very skinny and weak and what's interesting is as you get to high age having low muscle mass is correlated with higher mortality (like hip fractures).
@@drednac if protean is labelled as poison , then maybe exercise is to redirect the poison to less important limb muscles from the vital organs
Recommendations are 0.8g per Kg not per pound. Valter’s upper limit is 0.79g per kg so more or less the same. If you are fasting or implementing a ketogenic diet then the beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) produced is glucose sparing and therefore muscle protective because the brain can use BHB for fuel instead of glucose from gluconeogenesis from muscle protein.
@@GodfreyMann Well I am not sure from were get this data but this is pretty mainstream knowledge and pretty much wildly accepted recommendation anywhere you look. There is various research that maybe suggested little less but I am ensuring you it's ~ 0.8-1.2g per pound not Kg. (we are talking here about training individual who trains couple of time a week)
Hmm protien intake depends on factors its being used for. if you are a body builder that IGF 1 is going to be used in the right places like for muscle growth and maintenance. Unfortunately protien is just too important and we bodybuilders need enough of it otherwise i notice muscle loss. IGF 1 does not cause cancer. Protien is important and we often don't get enough and yet cancer rates are still high. Keto is a good start for longevity as sugar is the primary cause for disease
Longo advised against building lots of muscle mass on some podcast
@@user-li1mj1jx2j Look at Arnold, 70+ and still healthy. Lots of bodybuilders well into their later ages with no kydney problems or health issues. The guy is a Dr not a biologist or scientist
Who owns Dr Longo? Who paid for the research?
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The stuffy sounding, nasally and thick accent of the narrator is quite a barrier to hearing the important information well. Quite a challenge to listen to that voice. Good summary, but speaker should work on a clean delivery or should use a narrator with a clear, crisp, well enunciating voice.
she seems like she a nice person
don't get upset
Why do longevity researchers not produce anything useful?
They are like the doctors taking credit for longevity when in reality it was access to food, refrigeration, and essential nutrients, or removal of extreme toxins.
What a bunch of crock: low protein results in muscle wasting, and muscle mass has the highest correlation with mortality, ie longevity. Never mind muscle mass is essential to buffer glucose preventing diabetes etc. No better than gut biome researchers, have no clue.
Low protein as in not overdoing it, you've been indoctrinated into thinking you need 1+ grams of protein per pound of body weight or something ridiculous as that or to overly emphasize it. The real numbers to follow in general is more like .8-1 grams per kilogram of lean mass and when your calculate the numbers you need it's probably quite a bit less than you previously thought you needed. Another thing is just eating protein and no matter how much of it you eat is going to have little effect on your muscle mass, what matters more by far in preserving your muscles is how you stimulate them.
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I dont trust doctors now
I tried to make my own diet, but it didn't work. I went to *Agoge Diet* and let them create diet plan for me. I am delighted with the result
I find it incredibly racist and bigoted of Longo to imply that we should focus on eating "like our ancestors" or foods from "our homelands". There is just one race, the human race and the melanin content of your skin does not have any influence on your dietary choices. Can we find out more about this so called doctor's background? Italy does have a problem with latent right-wing extremism so I'd be careful with praising this guy.
Epidemiology is the lowest grade of study.
Trial studies are the factual science vs error laden epidemiology studies (subjects diet lifestyle memory) which are based on usually only the subjects memory or worse, their honesty
The studies she’s talking about are using bs oils like corn oil as “fats” which is an inflammatory oil. She’s citing flawed studies.
I’d unsubscribe from here she’s not even aware of my two problems with her “research”. She just likes to impress people with jargon, move on!
WHY DO WOMEN ALWAYS DRAG OUT A DAMN VIDEO..JUST TELL US WHAT THE DIET IS ..I DONT CARE ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE U SAY
The information is complex, as a scientist I appreciate the surrounding info. She is very smart so she is considering all the pros and cons, not just for the evidence but for the effects.
Without the explanation as to how a diet works then it’s not possible to decide which one is best. Furthermore, if you don’t understand the details then there’s a high chance of you implementing it incorrectly and not getting the results you were after. If that happens you might end up blaming a perfectly good diet instead of yourself...but then ignorance is bliss.
@@GodfreyMann YOU WROTE DOODOO ON A STICK
@@leelunk8235 the only doodoo here is above your neck.
@@GodfreyMann SIMP
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