What Is Spermidine, and Should You Be Eating More of It?

We have red lights.

We've got PRP.

We've got resveratrol.

We've got the deep plane facelift, which is not longevity, but it, it tricks people into thinking, you know, you've got longer on this earth than you actually do.

But there is something coming down the pipeline when it comes to longevity that actually is very, very cool, and I'm really excited about it.

It's called spermidine.

You heard me right.

Sperm is in the name.

But stay with me, uh, because it's not what you think it is.

The, the guy who discovered it just happened to discover it in semen, which is why it started-- it was named that, and it kinda stuck.

It is a compound that is also consumed-- So it's a cell-- It's something we make in our bodies, like we all have it, and it's a compound, as I'm gonna talk about, in certain foods, one of which is consumed a lot in Japan.

And I don't know if you saw the headlines recently, but Japan made headlines because they now contain the most centurions or centenarians, I've heard it said both ways, people that live to be over 100 years old.

So Japan houses the most centenarians.

Over 100,000 people living in Japan are living to be over or hu- or are currently over 100 years old, the oldest being a woman, naturally.

In fact, most of them are women.

88% of them, uh, centenarians in Japan are women because women rule.

But the oldest is 114, I believe, and she is a woman.

I think the oldest m- uh, man is 112, so not that far behind.

So people are living to be over 100, so there could be something to this compound, is the point of me telling that Japan, uh, story, and I'm gonna get to it.

So what is spermidine? Spermidine is a compound that our bodies make internally, and we also get it from certain foods.

It is involved in a lot of different, like, cellular processes, but the reason I'm excited about it and that it's big in longevity is that it has a connection with autophagy.

So autophagy is something you associate with fasting, and if you don't know, autophagy is your body's cellular cleanup crew.

It's the, it's the, it's the cleaning system your wonderfully smart body has.

It's the process where your cells go through, and they find damaged or unnecessary parts, break them down, and then recycle what's useful.

Uh, again, we talk about it with fasting because when you fast for 14 hours or, or longer, depending on what was in your-- what you actually last ate, it's a whole thing, but 14 generally plus, you really go through intense autophagy.