The Most Healthful Diet, or an Exercise in Irrational Exuberance--Valter D. Longo, PhD--Biogerontologist, Cell Biologist, and Author of The Longevity Diet

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The ketogenic diet, intermittent fasting, whether or not you should skip that first meal of the day...you've probably heard a lot of arguments for and against each, so how do you know what's "right"? What will provide YOU with healthful longevity? Valter D. Longo is a biogerontologist, cell biologist, and author of several books, the latest of which is The Longevity Diet. He joins the podcast to discuss his views on these issues and shed light on some of the main arguments in his book, each of which is based on the scientific evidence that's available today.

The Longevity Diet is divided into two sections: the first utilizes an approach that's based in part on findings of epidemiological and clinical studies to decide how best to eat on a daily basis, and the second discusses the benefits of the fasting mimicking diet. He's a proponent of diets rich in legumes and vegetables, 12-hour daily fasts, and making time for breakfast each morning.

While he admits that the ketogenic diet may benefit some individuals with particular health issues or diseases, he references a Harvard study that followed 120 subjects over a 30-year span and drew conclusions about the long-term effects of high fat, high protein, low carb diets: significantly shorter lifespans, and higher rates of cancer and cardiovascular disease. He also discusses how daily fasts that exceed 12 hours lead to a mechanism by which the body essentially begins eating itself, and how the concept of "irrational exuberance" is largely at play in many people's devotion to diet fads.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
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0:25.0	Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech and Future Tech Health
0:31.1	podcasts. I have a great guest today, Walter Longo, PhD.
0:35.0	He's a bio-gerontologist and Italian biologist.
0:38.0	He's written a number of books, most recently,
0:41.0	The Longevity Diet, which was re-released for 2018 and he knows a lot about
0:46.1	health and nutrition so I'm very glad to have him so Walter thank you for coming.
0:50.1	Oh thanks for having me.
0:51.6	Yeah well if you wouldn't mind you you know, I know you talked about your background in the longevity
0:56.6	diet, so you know, maybe we won't go into that, we'll just jump into the heart of the matter,
1:00.8	but what motivated you to write the longevity diet and to also revise it
1:06.6	for this year?
1:07.6	No, actually, I didn't revise it yet.
1:10.6	I wrote it this year I wrote the first version in the Italian just because I'm originally from Italy and then I but I were in English a few years ago so anyways yeah
1:28.8	just came out in the US about seven or eight months ago. And it's really the result of almost 30 years of research that I did in the field of aging.
1:44.2	I started back in 88, I think, studying aging in Texas.
1:49.3	And so, you know, 30 years into it it I thought it was time to to put it down in a book in a way that
1:58.7	People could actually take advantage of what I actually myself had been taking advantage of for decades.
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