Here's How To Live To 110 !

[Defren]

Hi. I'm afraid longevity has more to do with your inherited genes than diet

I used to believe this, but not any more. I firmly believe diet plays a part in good health as well as longevity. However, I am not talking about the NHS prescribed diet. Over the months I have read so much stuff, and it all points away from low fat dieting. The low carb high fat diet seems to be the one making us live longer, along with exercise and a slowing down of the HGF-1. I am now convinced that finding a way to reduce HGF-1 with a LCHF diet and exercise is the road to a longer and fitter life. I doubt any of us want to live into old age with all kinds of ailments, but by keeping our diet relatively plain, lots of heart healthy fats, and low carbs seems to be the way the medical profession are looking, allbeit slowly. I Know that my diet with a bit of walking on the treadmill makes me feel and according to people who know me, look really well, the same certainly can't be said pre diagnosis.

I feel mentally and psychologically much much much brighter on the LCHF diet than I've felt for decades! My digestion problems have improved immensely as has my asthma. My BS is still not where I'd like it to be but I'm getting there and I have to say I feel 'human' again. When I think of the years I wasted listening to the 'voices of authority' and eating foods that didn't agree with me and denying myself foods that were good for me I could kick myself.

As for longevity, six months ago if I'm honest, I was hoping I wouldn't wake up in the morning because my health was so poor and the fatigue was so depressing. Now, my state of mind is so much better and I'm back to swimming again, I've bought a step to do aerobics while the adverts are on TV and I'm joining a line dancing class tomorrow and even thinking about a holiday next year. I haven't felt that level of enthusiasm for years. I've always said I'd hate to live a long life if I wasn't healthy enough to enjoy it - I watched my father struggle to breathe and walk after a series of strokes and heart attacks in his 40s and I spent my life looking after him. His life was one long struggle and it made a hell of an impression on me. I'd hate to live a long life full of illness - I'd much prefer a quick exit stage left!

Completely concur. I was wheelchair bound at diagnosis, not any more. My wheelchair has been put into the shed, and there it will stay. I used to take 30mg of Lansoprazole a day, that has been cut in half by my GP and the 15mg is working absolutely fine. I no longer have any gastric problems. I eat loads of dairy products, and as my wonderful grandmother always said "you need fat to grease your bones". She was in her 90's when she passed, my mother is 82 and still fighting fit, although we did have a major scare with her earlier this year. I have a treadmill, a stepper, an exercise bike and I just do bits when I have excess energy to burn, which seems to be getting more frequent. Then I have three wee terriers who need to be walked, a house and business to run, I never stop, but the result of never stopping is plain to see. I also sleep like a baby, I didn't do that before either!

[GraceK]

Completely concur. I was wheelchair bound at diagnosis, not any more. My wheelchair has been put into the shed, and there it will stay. I used to take 30mg of Lansoprazole a day, that has been cut in half by my GP and the 15mg is working absolutely fine. I no longer have any gastric problems. I eat loads of dairy products, and as my wonderful grandmother always said "you need fat to grease your bones". She was in her 90's when she passed, my mother is 82 and still fighting fit, although we did have a major scare with her earlier this year. I have a treadmill, a stepper, an exercise bike and I just do bits when I have excess energy to burn, which seems to be getting more frequent. Then I have three wee terriers who need to be walked, a house and business to run, I never stop, but the result of never stopping is plain to see. I also sleep like a baby, I didn't do that before either![/quote]

That's a truly amazing improvement. I was on Omeprazole 40mg a day for horrible gastric problems, that's now down to 20mg a day and I could get away with less I think. I was diagnosed in August, found the forum that day, read about LCHF and started it the next week. I deliberately didn't rush or panic, I methodically emptied my cupboards of unsuitable foods, made a list of suitable foods from the diet doctor website and then went out and bought them over a period of a week or so. I was most definitely a woman on a mission!

I think after 2 weeks I began to really notice a difference, very subtle things like a bit more strength in my legs, the fact that I was getting out of the chair more often to go and fetch something and while I was doing that I'd end up doing a little bit of housework. My stomach wasn't gurgling all the time, I wasn't hungry. Then I noticed I was forgetting to take my inhaler and I wasn't waking up wheezing, then it was a bit of a lighter feeling around my tummy and being able to walk a little bit and feeling lighter and less breathless. I'm almost 3 months into my new way of eating but I haven't got to the stage of having excess energy yet but I sure hope I do one day.

I'm interested in your wonderful improvement from wheelchair to having excess energy! How old are you and how long have you been diagnosed? And how long have you been on the LCHF regime? You're an inspiration.

[Defren]

That's a truly amazing improvement. I was on Omeprazole 40mg a day for horrible gastric problems, that's now down to 20mg a day and I could get away with less I think. I was diagnosed in August, found the forum that day, read about LCHF and started it the next week. I deliberately didn't rush or panic, I methodically emptied my cupboards of unsuitable foods, made a list of suitable foods from the diet doctor website and then went out and bought them over a period of a week or so. I was most definitely a woman on a mission!

I think after 2 weeks I began to really notice a difference, very subtle things like a bit more strength in my legs, the fact that I was getting out of the chair more often to go and fetch something and while I was doing that I'd end up doing a little bit of housework. My stomach wasn't gurgling all the time, I wasn't hungry. Then I noticed I was forgetting to take my inhaler and I wasn't waking up wheezing, then it was a bit of a lighter feeling around my tummy and being able to walk a little bit and feeling lighter and less breathless. I'm almost 3 months into my new way of eating but I haven't got to the stage of having excess energy yet but I sure hope I do one day.

I'm interested in your wonderful improvement from wheelchair to having excess energy! How old are you and how long have you been diagnosed? And how long have you been on the LCHF regime? You're an inspiration.

Get out of it, you'll make me blush. I will be 47 in January, I was diagnosed with AJA at 29 and in the wheelchair about two years later, maybe a bit less, as I had my eldest when I was 31. I had been ill (diabetes symptoms) for a long time, but didn't know, I was diagnosed officially on March 5th this year. I had already found this forum and knowing I was going to have a blood test to check for diabetes, I was prepared. I hit the road running as soon as I was diagnosed, and have fine tuned it to where my last HbA1c was 4.9mmol/l I did the Newcastle diet to rid my organs of visceral fat, and am now looking for the next path in this journey. I eat primal, which is the same as paleo but with dairy. It suits me well, but I am a person who likes to have a plan, and at the moment I don't have one, so feeling a bit adrift. You will reach your goals, you like me, hit the road running, it works!

[GraceK]

That's a truly amazing improvement. I was on Omeprazole 40mg a day for horrible gastric problems, that's now down to 20mg a day and I could get away with less I think. I was diagnosed in August, found the forum that day, read about LCHF and started it the next week. I deliberately didn't rush or panic, I methodically emptied my cupboards of unsuitable foods, made a list of suitable foods from the diet doctor website and then went out and bought them over a period of a week or so. I was most definitely a woman on a mission!

I think after 2 weeks I began to really notice a difference, very subtle things like a bit more strength in my legs, the fact that I was getting out of the chair more often to go and fetch something and while I was doing that I'd end up doing a little bit of housework. My stomach wasn't gurgling all the time, I wasn't hungry. Then I noticed I was forgetting to take my inhaler and I wasn't waking up wheezing, then it was a bit of a lighter feeling around my tummy and being able to walk a little bit and feeling lighter and less breathless. I'm almost 3 months into my new way of eating but I haven't got to the stage of having excess energy yet but I sure hope I do one day.

I'm interested in your wonderful improvement from wheelchair to having excess energy! How old are you and how long have you been diagnosed? And how long have you been on the LCHF regime? You're an inspiration.

Get out of it, you'll make me blush. I will be 47 in January, I was diagnosed with AJA at 29 and in the wheelchair about two years later, maybe a bit less, as I had my eldest when I was 31. I had been ill (diabetes symptoms) for a long time, but didn't know, I was diagnosed officially on March 5th this year. I had already found this forum and knowing I was going to have a blood test to check for diabetes, I was prepared. I hit the road running as soon as I was diagnosed, and have fine tuned it to where my last HbA1c was 4.9mmol/l I did the Newcastle diet to rid my organs of visceral fat, and am now looking for the next path in this journey. I eat primal, which is the same as paleo but with dairy. It suits me well, but I am a person who likes to have a plan, and at the moment I don't have one, so feeling a bit adrift. You will reach your goals, you like me, hit the road running, it works!

Ha! Blush indeed! You should be a life coach! Are you a Capricorn by any chance, because apparently they get younger and fitter as they get older so it sounds about right where you're concerned.

What's AJA? Is that Juvenile Arthritis?

I'll be 60 next July and now that I'm eating the right diet for me, I'm absolutely determined to be the fittest and healthiest 60 year old ever! So I've got a goal and I'm on a mission. I feel like I'm turning into the person I've always known as 'MYSELF' and I've never been so interested in food in all my life! I'm now researching all the wonderful websites I've been given on the forum and primal and paleo sound absolutely perfect to me. You just know when something makes sense don't you? I've found that I've very often gone totally against my intuition where food is concerned, I'm actually looking back and thinking "You KNEW you didn't really want to eat THAT, yet you damned well ate it!" I actually don't LIKE carbs. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy! I'm free!

That's another side effect of my new diet ... I get euphoric from time to time.

[Defren]

Ha! Blush indeed! You should be a life coach! Are you a Capricorn by any chance, because apparently they get younger and fitter as they get older so it sounds about right where you're concerned.

What's AJA? Is that Juvenile Arthritis?

I'll be 60 next July and now that I'm eating the right diet for me, I'm absolutely determined to be the fittest and healthiest 60 year old ever! So I've got a goal and I'm on a mission. I feel like I'm turning into the person I've always known as 'MYSELF' and I've never been so interested in food in all my life! I'm now researching all the wonderful websites I've been given on the forum and primal and paleo sound absolutely perfect to me. You just know when something makes sense don't you? I've found that I've very often gone totally against my intuition where food is concerned, I'm actually looking back and thinking "You KNEW you didn't really want to eat THAT, yet you damned well ate it!" I actually don't LIKE carbs. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy! I'm free!

That's another side effect of my new diet ... I get euphoric from time to time.

I am indeed a Capricorn, I'm not a life couch, much more boring and mundane than that.

Aggressive juvenile arthritis, yes. It's (apparently) one of the nastiest forms as it hits quick and knocks you for six and that is exactly what happened to me. I was fine one minute, next minute paralyzed just about. I spent the next 17 years in hell. Trying to work, bring up my daughters, not easy, but if I am anything I'm a fighter, so I battled on, then once diagnosed diabetic, the whole world seemed to go back 15 years. I could walk, I could do bits of housework, now, I do virtually everything in the home. There are a couple of things I still struggle with, but am lucky to have a cleaning lady come in and help. So, I can now manage all alone, even though I did get married this year. See, still life in us old goats.

Primal suits me down to a tee. I don't ever drink milk, but can't do without my Greek yogurt and cream, so I can't see me doing Paleo, I might do a 30 day paleo challange, but that would be all. I don't ever eat wheat or any grains, so it all slots into the primal lifestyle perfectly for me. I have a few friends on another site who are paleo, and I love reading how they are doing, should I ever change my mind.

[GraceK]

Ha! Blush indeed! You should be a life coach! Are you a Capricorn by any chance, because apparently they get younger and fitter as they get older so it sounds about right where you're concerned.

What's AJA? Is that Juvenile Arthritis?

I'll be 60 next July and now that I'm eating the right diet for me, I'm absolutely determined to be the fittest and healthiest 60 year old ever! So I've got a goal and I'm on a mission. I feel like I'm turning into the person I've always known as 'MYSELF' and I've never been so interested in food in all my life! I'm now researching all the wonderful websites I've been given on the forum and primal and paleo sound absolutely perfect to me. You just know when something makes sense don't you? I've found that I've very often gone totally against my intuition where food is concerned, I'm actually looking back and thinking "You KNEW you didn't really want to eat THAT, yet you damned well ate it!" I actually don't LIKE carbs. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy! I'm free!

That's another side effect of my new diet ... I get euphoric from time to time.

I am indeed a Capricorn, I'm not a life couch, much more boring and mundane than that.

Aggressive juvenile arthritis, yes. It's (apparently) one of the nastiest forms as it hits quick and knocks you for six and that is exactly what happened to me. I was fine one minute, next minute paralyzed just about. I spent the next 17 years in hell. Trying to work, bring up my daughters, not easy, but if I am anything I'm a fighter, so I battled on, then once diagnosed diabetic, the whole world seemed to go back 15 years. I could walk, I could do bits of housework, now, I do virtually everything in the home. There are a couple of things I still struggle with, but am lucky to have a cleaning lady come in and help. So, I can now manage all alone, even though I did get married this year. See, still life in us old goats.

Primal suits me down to a tee. I don't ever drink milk, but can't do without my Greek yogurt and cream, so I can't see me doing Paleo, I might do a 30 day paleo challange, but that would be all. I don't ever eat wheat or any grains, so it all slots into the primal lifestyle perfectly for me. I have a few friends on another site who are paleo, and I love reading how they are doing, should I ever change my mind.

I've been known to do a bit of primal screaming in my time Yesterday I bought a ready cooked bacon joint complete with 2 inches of fat and could hardly wait to get home so I could pounce on it! Of course I ate the fat first and I wondered why I bothered with the meat because I was enjoying the fat so much. And it was guilt-free too! I've stopped drinking milk too and don't miss it at all but I swapped to cream and coffee. No wheat or grains for me either. I'm wondering if all that bacon fat I ate yesterday is what gave me the energy to go swimming today, followed by a trip to Tesco followed by a walk in the park?

I'm not saying I like having diabetes but it's been a blessing getting the diagnosis because at least I had something to go on. And yourself with AJA and finding your change of diet has helped to alleviate that is absolutely brilliant. I'm so chuffed for you.

[viviennem]

My best "gluttony" episode was at a local shop that cooks their own chickens etc. One Friday there was a tray of pieces of roasted belly pork, fresh out of the oven

I rushed home with a piece and tore it apart with my fingers, still warm. Talk about the fat running down your chin!

Viv

[GraceK]

My best "gluttony" episode was at a local shop that cooks their own chickens etc. One Friday there was a tray of pieces of roasted belly pork, fresh out of the oven

I rushed home with a piece and tore it apart with my fingers, still warm. Talk about the fat running down your chin!

Viv

Ooooooooh Yesssssssssss!

[mrawfell]

Just on the lighter side, the way to live to 110, is not to die to soon. How to do it ? Pass

[Indy51]

Wow, Defren, I hope you are going to send your Primal success story to Mark Sisson?

[phoenix]

The Island Where People Forget to Die
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/magaz ... d=all&_r=0
A longish but interesting article fro the NYT about the Island of Ikaria
where people were reaching

the age of 90 at two and a half times the rate Americans do. (Ikarian men in particular are nearly four times as likely as their American counterparts to reach 90, often in better health.) But more than that, they were also living about 8 to 10 years longer before succumbing to cancers and cardiovascular disease, and they suffered less depression and about a quarter the rate of dementia.