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🗓️ 27 October 2015
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Episode 92: Dr. Eric Ravussin of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center is on the show to discuss their recent human trials on the effects of caloric restriction on longevity markers, fasting, hormesis and obesity.
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0:00.0 | If you can adapt this ultimate day modified fast, you get some of these benefits, and especially |
0:13.0 | in some of these molecular mechanisms that we don't understand fully, but for example, the activation of the sur surte ruins is an important one. |
0:23.6 | Calo restriction is a mild stressor. |
0:26.6 | If you need 2,500 calories, you Danny, to survive. |
0:30.6 | And I give you 2,300 from now up to, you know, for the next two years. |
0:36.6 | There is a stressor here. |
0:38.6 | It's called O'Masis. |
0:39.7 | This is a mild stress. |
0:41.8 | And this mild stress is going to build up, you know, |
0:45.7 | biological resistance to the stressor. |
0:48.5 | It's a stressor. Hello there. I am Danny Lennon and you are listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio, |
1:05.2 | the podcast that brings you evidence-based nutrition information from the world's leading researchers, |
1:10.5 | medical professionals and |
1:11.7 | nutrition practitioners. We are here at episode 92 and today I have the absolute honor of being |
1:19.0 | joined by Dr. Eric Ravison from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana. |
1:25.2 | Dr. Ravison is one of the prominent obesity researchers in the |
1:28.7 | world and is internationally recognized for his work in obesity and diabetes and more recently |
1:34.9 | for the relationship between caloric restriction and longevity. And over the more of like |
1:40.9 | 30 years or more of his career at this point, he's conducted numerous clinical trials |
1:46.4 | and investigations on things like measures of energy expenditure, body composition, carbohydrate |
1:53.1 | metabolism, and then biomarkers of aging in health and disease states, which is what we're |
1:58.6 | really going to zero in on today. And it really came |
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