The Longevity Diet

If you tell me, "Doc, I eat, you know, basically whole food, plant-based diet, but there's occasionally some, um, fermented cheese, fermented dairy," I, I'm not gonna have too much a problem with you overall.

I'd rather you eat a whole food plant-based diet with an occasional fish or seafood, like Dr. Val Longo recommends in his amazing book called The Longevity Diet.

But that's also a pretty much a dairy-free diet.

Uh, the Mediterranean diet is not a dairy diet.

He was an amazing guitarist.

Wow.

After a while he said, "You know, this isn't really what I was meant to do, and I know a lot about aging from my Italian background." And he's become, you know, appropriately one of the most celebrated, uh, nutrition experts in the world, and his book, if you wanna read one book, uh, called The Longevity Diet by Dr.

Longo, is, uh, the book everybody must read on nutrition, even though it's not 100% plant-based program.

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Dr. Longo, I'm sorry, yeah, Dr. Valter Longo writes in The Longevity Diet that by reducing calories from proteins and sugars, you can decrease the activities of the growth of the hormone receptors that accelerate aging.

There's so much proof on this.

I know it's not what we want to hear, but it's what we need to hear.

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Dr. Longo, I'm sorry, yeah, Dr. Walter Longo writes in Longevity Diet that by reducing calories from proteins and sugars, you can decrease the activities of the growth of the hormone receptors that accelerate aging.

There's so much proof on this.

I know it's not what we want to hear, but it's what we need to hear.

You know, caloric restriction is a big, important topic.

I interviewed a great doctor at UCLA who wrote The Longevity Diet, Walter Longo, who is really, you know, an interesting academic and leader in the space.

He talks about fasting as an important component of that.

Sleep which is obviously in a huge part of our well-being because as you know, dr Richard when you're sleeping your brain is getting rid of all that garbage in your head and it helps on the cellular level and your restorative and REM sleep and deep sleep or the indicators to watch and in your sleep hygiene patterns.