Fasting means absolutely nothing. Eating could be very good for you or very bad for you and fasting is the same way.

If your fasting involves keeping breakfast, you're putting your life risk. There's no doubt about it.

Welcome to the Drew Pro at Podcast. Each week we explore the inner workings of the brain and the body with one of the brightest minds in wellness, medicine and mindset.

This week's guest is Dr. Walter Longo. Dr. Longo is an internationally recognized leader in the field of aging studies and related diseases.

His discoveries include some of the major genetic pathways that regulate aging and life-threatening diseases and the identification of a genetic mutation that protects individuals from several common diseases.

In 2015, after a number of his papers were among the most widely cited in the biomedical field, Time Magazine called him a group of longevity.

Currently, Dr. Longo is a professor of bio-jerenitology and biological sciences and a director of the Institute of longevity of the School of Jerenitology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

He's also the director of oncology and longevity program at IFOM in Milan. He is additionally the scientific director of the Creates Cures Foundation and the Walter Longo Foundation.

Dr. Longo is also the author of the Long Yevy diet which is his take on 25 years of research on aging, nutrition and diseases across the globe.

On today's podcast with Dr. Longo, we dive into a bunch of different topics including why someone the longest living societies in the world eat breakfast in the morning.

Not our American style breakfast, but some breakfast. What does that breakfast look like? We'll stay tuned. You're going to learn more about that. Dr. Longo also talks about the importance of pulsing fasting into our lifestyle rather than having more extreme approaches to fasting, which in his opinion have some damaging effects on the body.

So it's going to be really interesting to hear about how he thinks some of the longest living societies in the world fast. This is a fascinating interview. We cover a lot of different topics in addition to those two that I just mentioned. Stay tuned. I think you're going to love it.

Dr. Longo, welcome to the podcast studio. Welcome to the podcast. It's a pleasure and an honor to have you here. I selfishly want to dive into. Before we go into the fasting mimicking diet, the longevity diet, all your work and research that's there.

And we explain how it works. I selfishly want to jump into the topic of breakfast because you were one of the first people that I had heard that there is a power from all these epidemiological studies that we've seen out there of including some amount of food in the morning.

Can you talk about that? And what do you mean by that exactly?

Yes, I mean that if you look at now meta analysis, studies containing lots of studies, right? They indicate very clearly and not just for overall mortality, but also diabetes, cardiovascular disease.

People that keep breakfast have problems. And now you could say, well, they have problems because they have other bad behaviors, right?

But then you still have to be surprised. Why doesn't if you fast, let's say for 16 hours or 18 hours and you skip breakfast, why doesn't that counterbalance whatever bad habit you may have?

You should at least get a neutral effect, but no, we see shortening of lifespan and we see more cardiovascular disease and we see association with more diabetes, etc.

So that's when you have to say probably not such a good idea and let if we're going to skip something, it should not be breakfast.

And so, you know, dinner, it's a possibility. I'm a fan of lunch. So I skip lunch and I've been doing it for 20 years.

And I think it seems to be the safest way to go. If you consider all the studies out there.

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