EP 876B Eating to Live Longer

Summary: Can what you eat determine how long -- and how well -- you live? The clinically proven answer is yes.
Air Date: 2/6/18
Duration: 28:23
Host: Michael Roizen, MD
Guest Bio: Valter Longo, PhD
Valter-LongoValter Longo is the director of the Longevity Institute at USC in Los Angeles, and of the Program on Longevity and Cancer at IFOM (Molecular Oncology FIRC Institute) in Milan. His studies focus on the fundamental mechanisms of aging in simple organisms and mice and on how they can be translated to humans.

Dr. Longo received the 2010 Nathan Shock Lecture Award from the National Institute on Aging (NIA/NIH) and the 2013 Vincent Cristofalo "Rising Star" Award in Aging Research from the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR). Not coincidentally, Longo is from a town in Italy that is home to some of the longest-lived people in the world.
  • Book Title: The Longevity Diet
EP 876B Eating to Live Longer
Can what you eat determine how long -- and how well -- you live?

The clinically proven answer is yes.

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In his book, The Longevity Diet, Valter Longo, PhD, discusses how diet affects lifespan and how eating well can help you live to 80, 100 or even 110.

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One way to boost longevity, Longo says, is the five-day Fasting Mimicking Diet (FMD), which does away with the hungry feelings characteristic of other fasting diets. The FMD may also lower your risk for certain diseases, like dementia.

Longo also talks about the "five pillars of longevity" and why it's important to consider these specific areas of research when designing the best food plan for a longer life.

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