Hey there, welcome to another exciting episode of the Dr. Gundry podcast, the weekly

podcast where I give you the tools you need to support your gut, boost your health, and

live your youngest, healthiest life.

I'm Dr. Stephen Gundry.

Father, husband, cardiologist, cardiac surgeon, medical innovator,

and author of bestsellers including The Plant Paradox.

Each week I'll be sharing the latest in cutting-edge health information,

interviews with experts in the field, and intimate discussions with real people who have turned their health around.

I'm excited to be a part of your unique health journey.

So let's get started. So welcome everybody.

It's really my great pleasure to talk to Dr. Walter Longo who has recently published a book, The

Longyte Diet. And it's a pleasure of mine because I've been a big fan of

his research and you've probably

read in the plant paradox that I definitely reference your work and so it's great

great to have you here so what compelled you to write the longevity diet?

The longevity diet is really the result of 25 years of work starting back in the days with Roy Walford was my

mentor. It was at the time I think the leading figure in the world for

nutrition and longevity and he has written some

books on the topic of course and I just thought that it was 25 years went by and at that time there was really not much genetics available. We didn't know what genes controlled aging or

genes prevented diseases and and certainly we,

Calistriction, which was the intervention

that he was really promoting,

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