There's a lot of information out there about the best foods that help us lose weight, to

prevent cancer-fighting inflammation.

The list goes on.

In fact, for everything about our health, we try and improve their someone out there

with a new theory on how to do it.

But what does the science say?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we look at ways to live a longer, healthier life.

Well, we actually do that every day at Nutrition Facts, but today we're going to emphasize

the longer part of that equation.

It turns out a bacteria discovered on Easter Island may hold the key to a proverbial fountain

of youth by producing a rapamycin, which inhibits the engine of aging enzyme tour.

Here's the story.

It sounds like science fiction.

A bacteria and a vial of dirt taken from a mysterious island creating a compound that

prolongs life.

And not in the traditional medical sense, thanks to advances in modern medicine, we are

living longer, but we're doing it by lengthening the morbid deface.

In other words, we live longer, but sicker alive.

Traditional medicine increases the number of old people in bad health.

Ideally though, we'd expend lifespan by slowing aging to delay the onset of deterioration.

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