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Dr. Valter Longo On Fasting, Ketogenesis + Low-Protein Diets FULL INTERVIEW

Thanks for sharing this ..110 years old eh? ... live long and prosper.....
 
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I am not sure about the longevity diet as I lost the will to live halfway through the video.
 
Not specifically aimed at T2 but it mentions T2 at about the one hour mark.

I have some questions. For non Diabetics Longo recommends 60:30:10 (carbs fats proteins) which is fair enough at first glance except that he says he compromised on the fats and that fish should be eaten occasionally but that vegan/vegetarian diets can lead to malnourishment because of the lack of essential fatty acids. And that fats from dairy should be limited along with the protein.

He then mentions cholesterol (if only a little high) can be treated with diet (?). In that case he is advocating no animal fats apart from those in fish.

I may be missing things or misunderstanding but at four times per year (or for some 5 days per month) there seems to be an awful lot that one cannot eat. The length of fasting times he mentions has me a little confused, too. This is my first viewing of Prof. Longo's work and it is apparent to me that I am going to have to view more to understand the FMD.
 
Here is another recent interview/podcast
https://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/dr-valter-longo-on-fasting-longevity-and-the-fasting-mimicking-diet/

His views on long term ketogenic diet is interesting...
A few Ketogenic diet quotes from Dr. Longo…

“A lot of the ketogenic diets out there are artificial ones and they impose an artificial condition, which is high animal fat and high animal protein (butter and bacon). You can very quickly go from something very good to something very bad, which doesn’t appear as very bad when you first do it. It could be that when you do it you lose weight and you think,”I feel good. I’m losing weight.” And then eventually you could start having kidney damage, (negative) effects on IGF-1, atherosclerosis, plaque formation, etc… A lot of these ketogenic diets come from nowhere, but they (keto promoters) are able to convince hundreds of thousands of people to do it.”

“The Fasting Mimicking Diet allows the natural process of starvation (autophagy, protection, stem cell regeneration) to occur. You don’t interfere with the natural process. That’s a key of the Fasting Mimicking Diet. In the case of the ketogenic diet, you are trying to force the system into doing something that it has never evolved to do… It’s very scary and almost guaranteed a failure. Even if it’s a good thing for 1-5 years, eventually the body is going to have problems… When you introduce an environment that the body has never seen before, sooner or later it is not going to be able to function in that environment.”

“If you take exogenous ketones and eat a fairly normal diet it is a recipe for disaster… you are pushing the body to do two metabolic strategies at the same time and that could be problematic.
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I think the general idea is that we are design to go thru the cycles of life...as in the the seasons...getting our cycles in sync...aligning ourselves with the sun/stars/moon cycle :) ... Astronomy for longevity...

Looks like I am out of sync again... FBG 7.5 mmols
 
kokhongw said:
Here is another recent interview/podcast
https://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/dr-valter-longo-on-fasting-longevity-and-the-fasting-mimicking-diet/

His views on long term ketogenic diet is interesting...


I think the general idea is that we are design to go thru the cycles of life...as in the the seasons...getting our cycles in sync...aligning ourselves with the sun/stars/moon cycle :) ... Astronomy for longevity...

Looks like I am out of sync again... FBG 7.5 mmols
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I think the general idea is to presume we know very little and that there is much to learn
 
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