I hear from lots of people every day who are concerned about how their diet is affecting their health.

They need answers based on facts, in other words, from the peer-reviewed medical literature, and that is what I'm here for.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we have the first in a two-part series where I offer some of the highlights from

my latest book, How Not to Age, taped in front of a live audience.

There may be no such thing as dying from old age.

From a study of more than 42,000 consecutive autopsies,

Centinarians, those who live to be a hundred, were found to have succumbed

to disease in 100% of the cases, though most were perceived even by their physicians to be healthy just prior to death not one died of old age

They died from disease most commonly heart disease

If aging kills via diseases,

why wasn't my book How Not to Die?

All the longevity book anyone needs. In it, I ran through preventing, arresting, reversing each

of our top 15 killers starting with heart disease, not only the number one killer of centenarians, but of men and women across the board and

projected to main that way in the decades to come.

But is it really? Because the single greatest risk factor for most of our killer diseases

is how old you are, one could argue that the leading cause of death is actually aging.

The rate of death increases exponentially for age-related diseases such as heart disease, cancer,

stroke, dementia.

So yes, within the same age brackets, having a high cholesterol can increase your risk of heart disease up to 20-fold,

but an 80-year-old may have 500 times the risk of having a heart attack compared to a 20 year old.

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