#55 Eating for Longevity with Professor Valter Longo

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Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

What do we need to eat in order to live a long and healthy life? World-leading researcher in longevity, Professor Valter Longo, shares his views on diet and nutrition in this week’s episode. We discuss high protein diets, ketogenic diets and the concept of a low carb diet. Valter believes that we have over-simplified nutrition by looking at macronutrients in isolation - carbohydrates, fats and proteins – but in actual fact, we need all of these in our diets. And just as there are ‘good’ fats and ‘bad’ fats - some that we should be eating more of and others less of, the same is true of carbohydrates. Finally, Valter talks about fasting and his novel approach to research whereby he takes ancient knowledge and wisdom and marries it up with the latest science. This is the approach he used when formulating the fasting mimicking diet (FMD), a five-day plan that causes the body to go into fasting mode. Valter talks about the amazing benefits the diet - such as reducing visceral fat and abdominal fat. Although it hasn’t been proven in humans yet, it has been shown to reduce fatty liver, insulin resistance and even improve some autoimmune conditions in mice. This is a really eye-opening conversation – I hope you enjoy it!

DISCLAIMER: Dr Chatterjee accepts no responsibility for anyone deciding to undertake the Fasting Mimicking Diet(ProLon). Please read all the disclaimers on the ProLon website – they state that ProLon is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Also, that it should not be used to treat either Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes. Finally, please pay close attention to the ‘Is ProLon Right For Me’ section of the ProLon website if you wish to undertake the diet.

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0:00.0	The idea is to learn from history and tradition and evolution and then learn from science and
0:08.2	clinical work and then combine those two things and that's really when you see how we
0:15.0	come up, I come up with the recommendation.
0:17.1	Hi, my name is Rongan Chasji, GP, television presenter and author of the best selling books
0:24.0	The Stress Solution and the Four Pillar Plan.
0:27.0	I believe that all of us have the ability to feel better than we currently do, but getting
0:31.8	healthy has become far too complicated.
0:34.8	With this podcast, I aim to simplify it.
0:38.0	I'm going to be having conversations with some of the most interesting and exciting people
0:41.6	both within as well as outside the health space to hopefully inspire you, as well as empower
0:47.4	you with simple tips that you can put into practice immediately to transform the way
0:52.0	that you feel.
0:53.2	I believe that when we are healthier, we are happier because when we feel better, we live
0:58.6	more.
1:00.8	Hello and welcome to episode 55 of my Feel Better Live More podcast.
1:06.4	My name is Rongan Chasji and I am your host.
1:10.0	So what do we need to eat in order to live a long and healthy life?
1:14.6	My guest today is arguably one of the world's leading researchers in the field of longevity,
1:19.2	Professor Volta Longo, who in this week's episode shares his views on diet and nutrition.
1:25.9	We talk about high-prose diet, ketogenic diets and Volta gives his view on low carbohydrate
1:32.2	diets.
1:33.2	Volta, like myself, believes that we have oversimplified nutrition by looking at macronutrients, such
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