Let's say you really need to find reliable information about the best diet for high blood pressure

or heart disease or diabetes.

Where do you go?

You go to a website sponsored by Big Pharma that wants to sell you pills to fix your problem

or do you want to treat the cause?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast with the latest peer reviewed research on the

best ways to eat healthy and live longer.

They don't sell this kind of meth in a back alley.

In today's story, we look at the ill effects of a excess of methionine and amino acid that

can cause cancerous tumors to grow and our lifespan to shrink.

This recent review, noting that vegan diets, in part because they tend to be naturally low

in methionine, may prove to be a useful nutritional strategy and cancer growth control, also looked

at methionine restriction and lifespan extension.

It seems that the less methionine there is in body tissues, the longer different animals

tend to live.

But what are the possible implications for humans?

I've talked before about the free radical theory of aging.

This concept that aging can be thought of as the oxidation of our bodies, just like rust,

is the oxidation of metal.

And methionine is thought to have a pro-oxidant effect.

So the thinking is that lower methionine intake leads to less free radical production, so

called reactive oxygen species, which slows the rate of DNA damage, which then would

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