The Secret Power of Fasting for Longevity and Healing with Valter Longo

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 88 minutes

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These days, we hear a lot about fasting. Intermittent fasting, time-restricted eating, and water fasting are just some of the many terms being thrown around in support of better health. And we can’t forget about the high-fat, ketogenic, and low-carb approaches that are gaining in popularity as well. Which one is best? What does it all mean for our longevity, brain health, and overall wellness? My guest on this week’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy is here to sift through the terminology and confusion around fasting. Dr. Valter Longo is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of aging studies and related diseases. Known as a “Guru of Longevity,” Dr. Longo is currently Professor of Biogerontology and Biological Sciences and Director of the Institute of Longevity of the School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, as well as Director of the Oncology and Longevity Program at IFOM in Milan. He is also the Scientific Director of the Create Cures Foundation and the Valter Longo Foundation. Valter is the author of an extraordinary new book, The Longevity Diet. The culmination of 25 years of research on aging, nutrition, and disease across the globe, it provides an easy-to-understand, accessible and implementable road map to living well longer through improved nutrition.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heimann and that's pharmacy with an F,
0:09.3	F-A-R-M-A-C-Y, a place for conversations that matter. And this conversation today with
0:14.2	Dr. Walter Longo will matter to all of you because many of you probably are thinking,
0:18.7	how do I live a healthy, long life and not get sick? And this man has spent his life trying
0:23.9	to answer that question. And he is an internationally recognized leader in the field of aging and
0:29.5	related diseases. He's discoveries have looked at some of the major genetic pathways that relate to
0:34.3	aging, and regulate aging, and life threatening diseases. He's identified a genetic mutation that
0:39.4	protects men from many common diseases. And he's been cited by Time Magazine as the guru of
0:46.2	longevity. He's quite a guy. He's professor of bio-girontology and biological sciences at the
0:52.1	director and the director of the Institute of longevity of the school of gerontology at the
0:58.1	University of Southern California, LA, and he also works at the, as the director of oncology and
1:04.6	longevity program at IFOM in Milan. And he's a scientific director of CREATE CURES Foundation and
1:10.2	the Walter Longo Foundation, where he takes all the proceeds from his books and all the proceeds
1:14.5	from the products that are designed to create healthy aging and puts it back into research. He's
1:18.8	an extraordinary guy. His book, The Longevity Diet, is the culmination of 25 years of research on
1:24.5	aging nutrition and disease across the globe. It's easy to understand, it's accessible,
1:29.4	it's easy to implement, and it's a road map to living well longer through improved nutrition.
1:34.1	And I for one am all about it. In fact, I'm going to try the program now that I've read the book,
1:39.0	and you're going to hear why as we listen to Dr. Longo. So welcome.
1:42.5	Well, thanks. Thanks. There was a long intro. I know. You've done a lot. You're the guy.
1:49.0	And you're happened to be the guy who everybody's talking about in terms of aging. And your
1:53.8	program has been studied extensively across a wide spectrum of diseases. You've gotten funding
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