Viva Longevity!Chris interviews Dr. Christopher Gardner of Stanford to dispel protein myths. Is our obsession with protein-packed products — like David Bars and Magic Spoon — actually good for us, or just making us fat?
Viva Longevity's mission is to find the most credible scientists and help them tell their stories.
Maximizing the intersection of human health and the health of the environment with regard to the amount and type of protein produced and consumed in the United States pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30726996
A randomized crossover trial on the effect of plant-based compared with animal-based meat on trimethylamine-N-oxide and cardiovascular disease risk factors in generally healthy adults: Study With Appetizing Plantfood-Meat Eating Alternative Trial (SWAP-MEAT) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32780794
Dietary protein intake in midlife in relation to healthy aging - results from the prospective Nurses' Health Study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38309825
0:00 Factors causing the obesity crisis 4:20 Social media influencers are fueling the obesity crisis 10:20 Trust in science in the US has gone down 11:30 Christopher Gardner’s protein flip 15:20 Myth: plant foods are incomplete proteins 19:25 How almost 100% of Americans meet the protein RDA 23:40 Humans don’t store excess protein 25:39 SWAP-MEAT Study: plant vs. animal protein 26:50 Nurses’ Healthy Study: plant vs. animal protein 29:19 Debunking Peter Attia’s protein claim 32:09 It’s hard to get people to eat less than the RDA 33:59 Stu Phillips vs. Christopher Gardner: muscle building 37:05 Reviewing products with added protein 40:45 David Bar’s EPG ingredient: safe? 44:12 Peter Attia and Andrew Huberman are scammers 44:50 US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee - why more beans, peas, lentils 52:00 Debunking Nina Teicholz 53:48 Protein powders? 55:15 Paul Saladino’s collagen with trachea - a scam? 56:47 How countries successfully reduce obesity
Americas Protein Obsession Is Making Us Fat I Dr. Christopher GardnerViva Longevity!2025-08-28 | Chris interviews Dr. Christopher Gardner of Stanford to dispel protein myths. Is our obsession with protein-packed products — like David Bars and Magic Spoon — actually good for us, or just making us fat?
Viva Longevity's mission is to find the most credible scientists and help them tell their stories.
Maximizing the intersection of human health and the health of the environment with regard to the amount and type of protein produced and consumed in the United States pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30726996
A randomized crossover trial on the effect of plant-based compared with animal-based meat on trimethylamine-N-oxide and cardiovascular disease risk factors in generally healthy adults: Study With Appetizing Plantfood-Meat Eating Alternative Trial (SWAP-MEAT) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32780794
Dietary protein intake in midlife in relation to healthy aging - results from the prospective Nurses' Health Study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38309825
0:00 Factors causing the obesity crisis 4:20 Social media influencers are fueling the obesity crisis 10:20 Trust in science in the US has gone down 11:30 Christopher Gardner’s protein flip 15:20 Myth: plant foods are incomplete proteins 19:25 How almost 100% of Americans meet the protein RDA 23:40 Humans don’t store excess protein 25:39 SWAP-MEAT Study: plant vs. animal protein 26:50 Nurses’ Healthy Study: plant vs. animal protein 29:19 Debunking Peter Attia’s protein claim 32:09 It’s hard to get people to eat less than the RDA 33:59 Stu Phillips vs. Christopher Gardner: muscle building 37:05 Reviewing products with added protein 40:45 David Bar’s EPG ingredient: safe? 44:12 Peter Attia and Andrew Huberman are scammers 44:50 US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee - why more beans, peas, lentils 52:00 Debunking Nina Teicholz 53:48 Protein powders? 55:15 Paul Saladino’s collagen with trachea - a scam? 56:47 How countries successfully reduce obesityWhy Are So Many Experts Worried About This Viral Doctor?Viva Longevity!2025-10-03 | Chris investigates Dr. Aseem Malhotra's viral claims about heart disease, cholesterol and mRNA vaccines.
Viva Longevity's mission is to part the clouds of misinformation.
VIDEOS:
The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out:“We've Been Lied To About Medication!” Dr Aseem Malhotra youtu.be/R87QLweXl1A
Dr Aseem Malhotra - Speaking At The Reform Party Conference - Full Video youtu.be/eZhyU0beH9g
Life expectancy can increase by up to 10 years following sustained shifts towards healthier diets in the United Kingdom | Nature nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00868-w
0:00 Emotion is the driver 1:14 Aseem on Cholesterol 3:41 Red meat 6:21 Heart disease & mRNA 8:55 Vaccines & its causes 11:22 Vaccine misperceptions 12:13 Serious adverse events from mRNA 18:44 mRNA vaccines and cancer 20:19 The diff between doctors, epidemiologists, and social media stars 21:53 Was it a lab leak? 24:20 My takeawaysWhy you need to get Hot to feel better | Dr. Ashley MasonViva Longevity!2025-09-14 | Dr. Ashley Mason is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychologist, and the Director of the Sleep, Eating, Affect (SEA) Laboratory at UCSF.
Viva Longevity's mission is to find the most credible scientists and help them tell their stories.
DONATE to Ashley's research: https://giving.ucsf.edu/fund/ashley-mason-thermal-therapy-science
Feasibility and acceptability of an integrated mind-body intervention for depression: whole-body hyperthermia (WBH) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38743265
00:00 Ashley Mason’s surprising findings 1:32 Link between core body temperature & mental health 6:52 Whole body hyperthermia (WBH) definition 9:58 Ashley’s studies - WBH to treat depression 12:25 How does WBH’s effects compare to antidepressants? 16:43 Sauna vs. exercise 17:24 Traditional vs. infrared (IR) sauna 20:13 Sauna vs. cold plunge to treat depression 22:39 Does sweating help us detox chemicals? 26:52 How often should we use the sauna? 31:01 How can heat & IR therapy treat insomnia? 34:24 How to stop waking up in the middle of night 37:32 Should we sauna close to bedtime? 38:10 Can hot yoga also improve mood? 39:07 What do look for in home saunas 41:01 Ashley’s upcoming studies: Gen Z loneliness & firefighters 44:33 How the body adapts to heat training 46:34 Does sauna increase health span? 47:26 There is no 1 protocol for everyone 48:06 We’re editing meaningful thermal stress out of our livesHarvard says Red Meat is WORSE than Junk FoodViva Longevity!2025-08-03 | This Harvard study shows that red meat is WORSE for your health than ultra-processed food. Chris interviews one of the authors, Dr. Fenglei Wang, to find out more.
Viva Longevity's mission is to find the most credible scientists and help them tell their stories.
Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses on the Consumption of Different Food Groups and the Risk of Overweight and Obesity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40004990
Integration of epidemiological and blood biomarker analysis links haem iron intake to increased type 2 diabetes risk pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39138340
Association between changes in carbohydrate intake and long term weight changes: prospective cohort study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37758268
0:00 Why this study is SO important 11:19 Dr. Fenglei Wang’s background 13:50 Definition of healthy aging 15:16 The study's unique cohorts 15:50 Linking food to inflammation: the EDIP score 16:50 Type 2 diabetes is linked to inflammation 17:45 Empirical dietary index for hyperinsulinemia (EDIH) score 19:00 Associations between dietary patterns & aging 21:10 Food frequency questionnaires (FFQ's) - accurate? 23:24 Differences between the compared diets 26:25 Is 100% plant-based the healthiest diet? 28:26 Are seed oils healthy? 32:01 Are starchy vegetables healthy? 33:42 Is dairy healthy? 36:51 Why is red meat WORSE than ultra-processed food? 29:35 Is fish healthy? 41:30 The contamination of fish 44:00 Spearman correlations 49:29 Are pescatarian and low-carb diets healthy? 51:20 Chris' takeaways101-Year-Old Nutrition Professor’s NEW Longevity Advice | Dr. John ScharffenbergViva Longevity!2025-07-18 | Nutrition professor Dr. John Scharffenberg still travels the world to speak on longevity! He shares his profound influence on nutrition science and his views on drugs like Ozempic, sugar’s effect on heart disease, supplements, and protein.
PAPERS
Integration of epidemiological and blood biomarker analysis links haem iron intake to increased type 2 diabetes risk pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39138340
00:00 Meet Dr. Scharffenberg 4:59 Dr. Scharffenberg’s epic life 19:42 Sugar’s health effects 22:23 Ozempic and Wegovy - safe? 27:49 Should we take supplements? 28:57 Should we supplement protein? 31:46 Thoughts on epidemiologyCut Your Stroke Risk Dramatically by Preventing AFibViva Longevity!2025-07-05 | Dr. John Day is an internationally recognized cardiologist, specializing in AFIB. His new book focuses on recent breakthroughs in prevention and treatment that often allows us to cure this terrifying disease.
Viva Longevity's mission is to find the most credible scientists & doctors, and help them tell their stories.
0:00 Restoring heart rhythm 1:30 AFib is an epidemic 2:45 Dr. John Day is the most interesting AFib man in the world 4:39 What is AFib 6:02 Who gets AFib? 7:51 Extreme exercise 11:59 Wearables for AFib 12:42 Ablations 17:41 Dr. Day's research on longevity 20:00 Diet and AFib 29:40 The bookWhy High Protein Diets Could Be Dangerous | Dr. Valter LongoViva Longevity!2025-06-21 | Excess protein may dramatically increase the risk of cancer and accelerate aging. Dr. Valter Longo, one of the top scientists in aging research and creator of the Fasting Mimicking Diet, explains why the risk is so high.
Viva Longevity's mission is to find the most credible scientists and help them tell their stories.
Fasting mimicking diet cycles versus a Mediterranean diet and cardiometabolic risk in overweight and obese hypertensive subjects: a randomized clinical trial by Valter Longo nature.com/articles/s44324-023-00002-1
0:00 Excess protein is dangerous 2:18 Valter Longo's mission & discoveries 8:24 IGF-1's profound role 17:35 Excess animal protein increases cancer risk by 400% 21:15 Foods that increase longevity 32:22 Why is red meat so bad? 37:11 Protein vs carbs 40:36 Plant vs animal protein 46:43 Low carb diets 49:00 Fasting mimicking diets 1:04:22 Cancer and autoimmunity 1:22:17 GLP-1 Ozempic 1:32:52 Protein powder 1:35:30 Chris' takeawaysMore Meat, Shorter Life?Viva Longevity!2025-06-04 | Science: meat is worse than ultra processed food.Stanford Rheumatologist Reveals Surprising Causes of Joint PainViva Longevity!2025-06-01 | Dr. Tamiko Katsumoto is a Stanford rheumatologist specializing in immunology and inflammation. She is both physician and scientist who gets over-the-top raves from her patients.
Viva Longevity's mission is to find the most credible scientists and help them tell their stories.
A multidisciplinary lifestyle program for rheumatoid arthritis: the 'Plants for Joints' randomized controlled trial pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36617162
Gut microbiome signatures of vegan, vegetarian and omnivore diets and associated health outcomes across 21,561 individuals nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01870-z
Health Matters 2024: Food’s Protective Power Against Disease youtu.be/C7M9WNXGBcQ
Food Has a Big Climate Problem. Here’s How to Fix It. Jonathan Foley https://biox.stanford.edu/video/re-thinking-food-symposium-food-has-big-climate-problem-heres-how-fix-it
0:00 Dr. Tamiko Katsumoto 4:25 Plants for Joints study 6:19 Effects of carnivore diet on health 9:52 Can food intolerances change with diet? 13:59 Stanford PLANT Study - educating physicians 21:05 Effects of EDC’s, microplastics, and other chemicals 33:03 Impact of climate change on human health 35:09 Learnings from drug development 48:27 Who do Americans trust for nutrition advice? 56:26 Patient success stories 1:03:15 Evidence-Based Nutrition program results 1:14:27 Chris's takeawaysProbiotic Pills: Usually Harmful, Sometimes FatalViva Longevity!2025-05-14 | Dr. Sean Spencer from Stanford's Microbiome Lab: probiotic pills reduce microbiome diversity and survival rates for cancer.
Viva Longevity's mission is to find the most credible scientists and help them tell their stories.
Feeding Your Microbiome: Dietary Strategies for Wellness and Disease Prevention youtu.be/zib0MmDrHPg
0:00 Dr. Sean Spencer MD, PhD 2:11 Probiotic pills are risky 4:39 Probiotic pills and cancer 15:36 Freezing your poop for a rainy day 23:58 Why fermented food is healthy 28:01 Fiber 32:28 Industrialization of the microbiome 39:12 Soluble vs insoluble fiber 48:09 GLP-1, fiber, and weight 59:54 Fecal transplants for IBD 1:02:28 What your poop reveals 1:14:58 Healthy gut for athleticsWe Analyzed 114 Country Food Guides. 1 Diet Ruled Them All.Viva Longevity!2025-04-25 | We interviewed scientists who wrote new dietary guidelines for the longest-lived countries. Your move, RFK Jr.
0:00 RFK jr. and dietary guidelines 2:14 Dietary guidelines are wildly controversial 3:45 Norway's guidelines 7:16 Carbs & diabetes? 9:44 Japanese guidelines 12:35 Swiss guidelines 14:29 Canadian guidelines 16:09 American guidelines 19:08 Guidelines vs paleo 22:51 My conclusionsHave we been LIED to about meat?Viva Longevity!2025-03-30 | Hong Kong has the highest meat consumption and longest life expectancy in the world. Checkmate dietary guidelines?
Meat is the most controversial topic in the overheated battle of nutrition and dietary guidelines in America. So which is it: good for us, bad, or no one knows?
Viva Longevity's mission is to find the best scientists in the world and help them tell their story.
0:00 Hong Kong lives longest 1:40 Epidemiologists 3:00 Meat consumption numbers 5:17 The urban advantage 8:08 Diet 12:30 Influencers own America 17:14 Two competing books 23:17 How TED slid down the misinformation highwayThe Hidden DANGER of Pesticides in Your DietViva Longevity!2025-03-16 | We asked one of the world's experts: Dr. Brenda Eskenazi.
Donate to support CHAMACOS: https://cerch.berkeley.edu CHAMACOS study info: https://cerch.berkeley.edu/research-programs/chamacos-study
Prenatal Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Traits Related to Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Population Living in Proximity to Agriculture pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6071837
Childhood Overweight and Obesity and Pubertal Onset Among Mexican-American Boys and Girls in the CHAMACOS Longitudinal Study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33831178
Elemental Sulfur Use and Associations with Pediatric Lung Function and Respiratory Symptoms in an Agricultural Community (California, USA) ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp528
Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0909519107
Residents in San Joaquin Valley breathe chemical pesticides, according to new study https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/residents-in-san-joaquin-valley-breathe-chemical-pesticides-according-to-new-study/2024/09
Childhood exposure to common herbicide may increase the risk of disease in young adulthood https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/research-highlights/childhood-exposure-to-common-herbicide-may-increase-the-risk-of-disease-in-young-adulthood
Timestamps
0:00 What’s the CHAMACOS study? 2:40 Why should people who aren’t farmworkers, care? 6:00 Importance of funding CHAMACOS 11:16 How farmworker health affects us all 12:43 Future of CHAMACOS 15:21 Glyphosate’s effects: liver disease, respiratory disease, and more 20:28 Epigenetic aging 22:00 Causality vs. association 26:27 Are the Dirty Dozen & Clean 15 accurate? 27:33 Can I wash off pesticides? 29:00 Does organic actually have fewer pesticides? 30:37 Unfortunate substitutes 31:39 Diet & geography influences on pesticide exposure 33:24 Policy changes caused by CHAMACOS 34:15 How scientists over-dramatize findings 36:32 Why Dr. Eskenazi’s not retired 40:08 CHAMACOS key findings: lower IQ’s, autism, respiratory problems, more 44:46 Glyphosate & cancer risk 46:19 Increased colon cancer in US 47:20 How pesticides harm the environment 47:50 Atrazine’s effects & Syngenta’s cover-up 51:05 How to reduce your pesticide exposure: does eating vegan help? 51:47 Do people eating organic eat fewer pesticides? 52:36 Why the US's pesticide problem is especially bad 54:09 Positive change is possibleSurprising Ways to Boost Longevity - Dr. Nic (Physionic)Viva Longevity!2025-03-08 | Dr. Nic Verhoeven of Physionic shares about mitochondrial health, supplements, exercise tips, longevity and more!
0:00 Dr. Nic's background 0:58 Why is mitochondrial health important? 2:18 How to measure mitochondrial health 3:43 Mitochondria protect us from cancer 6:19 How to slow aging 9:45 What supplements to take? 15:13 What info sources to refer to? 16:44 Goals for PhysionicHow Big Data Revealed the Best DietsViva Longevity!2025-02-23 | I spoke about diet at a low carb conference! I focused on big data.
Viva Longevity finds the most credible scientists and helps them tell their stories.
Comparative ecologic relationships of saturated fat, sucrose, food groups, and a Mediterranean food pattern score to 50-year coronary heart disease mortality rates among 16 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study nature.com/articles/s41430-018-0183-1
Carlton Fredericks' Low-Carbohydrate Diet Environmental Epidemiology by Dean Baker Toxic Truth: A Scientist, A Doctor, and the Battle Over Lead The Devil's Playbook The Triumph of Doubt Good Calories Bad Calories The Big Fat Surprise Lies My Doctor Told Me The Science of Science Strong Medicine by Blake Donaldson Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution Celebrating 90+ Years of Healthy Living by Jack LaLanne The Book of Why Causality in the Sciences Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences Livestock's Long Shadow Principles of Medical Statistics
0:00 I spoke at CoSci 2:43 How big data will revolutionize nutrition 3:30 Working for Steve Jobs 5:10 Caddying for Jack LaLanne 5:56 Growing up low carb & eating lead 7:15 Environmental epidemiology 9:59 Living long 11:21 Big data 12:41 The famous 22-country paper 19:10 Saturated fat 20:37 So many centenarians 21:18 Gary Taubes article on epidemiology 23:30 Diet confusion in America 26:45 The pushback 29:32 What I'd do insteadExercise Myths Debunked | Harvard Epidemiologist Dr. I-Min LeeViva Longevity!2025-02-02 | Dr. I-Min Lee is a physical activity researcher. She’s a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
PAPERS:
Women’s Health Study https://prevmed.bwh.harvard.edu/womens-health-study/
Effect of physical inactivity on major non-communicable diseases worldwide: an analysis of burden of disease and life expectancy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22818936
0:00 I-Min Lee’s background 1:53 What physical activity epidemiologists do 5:34 Effect of physical activity vs. smoking on health 8:06 No pain, no gain? 9:50 10,000 steps per day? 10:48 Epidemiology explained 13:29 Limits of fitness trackers 15:20 Which sports are best for longevity? 17:02 How observational studies minimize errors 21:47 Drugs vs. exercise’s effect on health 23:34 How to get more physical activity in 25:00 Aerobic vs. strength training 27:00 How to know what studies to trust 29:40 People who do physical activity for work vs. leisure 30:52 Creating the US Physical Activity Guidelines 31:59 How to minimize confounding variables 33:52 How physical activity recommendations change over life 35:42 How much physical activity should one do? 36:55 How much physical activity is too much?Influencers vs Epidemiologists: Money & Fame vs ScienceViva Longevity!2025-01-14 | Your favorite influencers are getting rich by spreading misinformation.
Viva Longevity finds great scientists who are too busy doing science to be social media stars, and we help them tell their stories.
Epidemiology Faces Its Limits: The search for subtle links between diet, lifestyle, or environmental factors and disease is an unending source of fear—but often yields little certainty, by Gary Taubes science.org/doi/10.1126/science.7618077
Comparative ecologic relationships of saturated fat, sucrose, food groups, and a Mediterranean food pattern score to 50-year coronary heart disease mortality rates among 16 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study nature.com/articles/s41430-018-0183-1
0:00 Modern epidemiology 2:27 Environmental vs nutritional epidemiology 9:04 The power of big data 11:36 Gary Taubes' Science article 16:16 Dr. Tobias on Nina Teicholz 18:08 Correlation is not causation? 21:42 Hierarchy of evidence 26:23 Got a big effect size? Trans fats. 29:43 The right way to infer cause 32:54 How to spot misinformation 33:57 Food frequency questionnaires 37:26 The food pyramid 38:52 Rich influencersSkincare Breakthroughs with Harvard Professor Anna MandinovaViva Longevity!2024-12-29 | Lasers, micro needles, advanced sunscreens & other breakthroughs in skincare.
Viva Longevity finds great scientists who are too busy doing science to be social media stars, and we help them tell their stories.
VIDEOS:
Beyond the surface: Skin care a key piece in longevity | Anna Mandinova, MD, PhD | TEDxBoston youtu.be/ThaFiKyHKRQ
Anti-Aging Laser Treatments That Change the GAME | Dr. Sam Ellis youtube.com/watch
Breaking Down the Science of Anti-Aging and Skin Health | The Proof Podcast EP #3383 youtube.com/watch
Laser Treatment for Fine Lines, Pigmentation, & Redness | Dr. Shereene Idriss youtu.be/ylFQF-Ktba0
How to Protect Your Skin Against UVA | Lab Muffin Beauty Science youtu.be/qQO9pOYapnM
The basal layer in human squamous tumors harbors more UVA than UVB fingerprint mutations: A role for UVA in human skin carcinogenesis pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0401141101
0:00 Skincare 2:00 Sunscreen 3:48 Tanning is harm 8:32 UVA and windows 13:13 Diet and skin 17:53 Microneedling 19:10 Lasers 22:31 Too much UVAHow to Fix Your Sleep | Dr. Roger SeheultViva Longevity!2024-12-08 | Dr. Roger Seheult, the MedCram doc, knows sleep.
Viva Longevity finds the best doctors and scientists in the world and helps them tell their stories.
0:00 Walking encyclopedia 0:34 Fix your sleep 1:56 Circadian rhythm 5:59 Sleep apnea 10:12 Dental appliances 15:40 Do masks work? 21:06 The future of MedCram 26:46 The perils of meat
Melatonin for the prevention and treatment of jet lag (Cochrane database of systematic reviews) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12076414
Mechanism of uptake and incorporation of the non-human sialic acid N-glycolylneuraminic acid into human cells (Journal of Biological Chemistry) | pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15557321
Association between Neu5Gc carbohydrate and serum antibodies against it provides the molecular link to cancer: French NutriNet-Santé study (BMC) | pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7510162
Association of Biologic Therapy With Coronary Inflammation in Patients With Psoriasis as Assessed by Perivascular Fat Attenuation Index (JAMA) | pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31365032
New Research: Sialic Acids May Contribute to Inflammation & Disease youtu.be/xRkRilP1OTU
The Low-Carb Fruit Fallacy youtu.be/3Prb6hG-TXw3 Friends Lived to 100?!Viva Longevity!2024-12-03 | What are the odds that 3 scientists on a team of 17 would live to 100 (so far)?!The AMAZING Healing Power Of Red Light Therapy | Dr. Roger SeheultViva Longevity!2024-11-24 | Red light therapy sounds gimmicky but the healing power of red light is real.
Roger Seheult is a doctor behind Medcram (1.6 million subscribers) and his signature topic is infrared light therapy.
Viva Longevity finds the best doctors and scientists in the world and helps them tell their stories.
Autumn COVID-19 surge dates in Europe correlated to latitudes, not to temperature-humidity, pointing to vitamin D as contributing factor nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81419-w
0:00 Intro: Dr. Roger Seheult, Medcram 9:11 Hyponatremia 13:48 Infrared light 31:41 The problems with meat 40:46 Covid 19 and vaccines 50:38 microbiome 53:52 Toni and infrared lightWhat Food History Tells Us About Living LongerViva Longevity!2024-11-08 | Toni MacAskill's Talk at TEDx Boston's Longevity Summit.
BOOKS:
Health's Improvement Or, Rules Comprizing and Discovering the Nature, Method and Manner of Preparing All Sorts of Foods Used in this Nation, by Thomas Moffett https://www.google.com.pe/books/edition/Health_s_Improvement_Or_Rules_Comprizing/mN0jC2X_ZGYC
A Discourse concerning the causes and effects of Corpulency, etc by Thomas Short https://www.google.com.pe/books/edition/A_Discourse_concerning_the_causes_and_ef/nL9bAAAAcAAJ
Discourses on Tea, Sugar, Milk, Made-wines, Spirits, Punch, Tobacco, &c With Plain and Useful Rules for Gouty People by Thomas Short https://www.google.com.pe/books/edition/Discourses_on_Tea_Sugar_Milk_Made_wines/51NQAQAAIAAJ
Cursory remarks on corpulence; or Obesity considered as a disease, by William Wadd https://www.google.com.pe/books/edition/Cursory_remarks_on_corpulence_or_Obesity/CyVhAAAAcAAJ
The Cookbook of Julian of Norwich From Hazelnuts to Pottages (A Collection of Medieval Recipes) https://www.google.com.pe/books/edition/The_Cookbook_of_Julian_of_Norwich/12gazgEACAAJ
War on Disease: A History of the Lister Institute by Harriette Chick https://www.google.com.pe/books/edition/War_on_Disease/iWZrAAAAMAAJ
0:00 Healthy diets came from previous centuries 0:39 Important lessons lost in history 2:03 Great nutrition scientists 2:33 Beri beri 4:06 Harriette Chick's awards 4:38 Past obsession with diet 5:40 Famous old books 6:32 Two foundational beliefs 8:56 The problem of marbling 10:38 Food became addictiveCardiologist: How to Avoid Heart Surgery | Dr. Columbus BatisteViva Longevity!2024-10-26 | Kaiser cardiologist Columbus Batiste: the keys to avoiding heart surgery.
0:00 Dr. Columbus as TEDx speaker 2:20 Dr. Columbus' career 3:33 Stents are like a hoarder's closet 5:18 Dr. Columbus' new book 9:05 Kim Williams 10:25 Making a healthy choice, when you have no choice 10:49 Tennis is the king of sports in promoting longevity 13:12 Jaylen Brown plant based 14:02 Why do athletes care about nutrition? 15:12 Mental Clarity 16:14 Andrew Huberman 17:20 AFib (Atrial Fibrillation)Is Exercise a Magic Bullet for Longevity? | Daniel LiebermanViva Longevity!2024-10-20 | Why exercise becomes more potent for longevity as we age.
The active grandparent hypothesis: Physical activity and the evolution of extended human healthspans and lifespans by Daniel Lieberman pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2107621118
Paleo Anthropologist Daniel Lieberman On Sitting, Meat & Exercise — Interview by Chris MacAskill youtu.be/U0E-a5wdQSs
0:00 Filming a TEDx talk 0:29 Defining exercise 2:45 Why humans live long 5:25 Why humans evolved to be active 6:59 More important to stay active with age 10:16 Structural stress from activity 12:12 Exercise is not medicine105 Year-Old Teacher’s Longevity Lessons | Ginny HislopViva Longevity!2024-10-08 | Virginia (Ginny, Ginger) Hislop is thriving at 105. Here's why.
ARTICLES:
Lifelong learning: Stanford GSE student collects her master’s degree after 80 years in education https://ed.stanford.edu/news/lifelong-learning-stanford-gse-student-collects-her-master-s-degree-after-80-years-education
0:00 Making headlines 2:07 Sense of purpose 2:39 Never stop learning 3:05 Gratitude 3:23 Sense of humor 3:53 Strong relationships 4:20 Resilience 4:55 Genes 5:50 Stress 6:24 Diet 8:04 Exercise 8:49 Sleep 9:13 Social 9:22 PositivityWere Renaming Plant Chompers — Here’s WhyViva Longevity!2024-10-05 | Our cheeky name was fun while it lasted!
Longevity summit photos: johnwernerphotography.com/LongevityIs Bryan Johnsons Longevity Protocol Worth the Hype?Viva Longevity!2024-09-27 | We crashed Bryan Johnson's Don't Die Summit in the previous episode. Fascinating! But so much hype.
VIDEOS:
We Crashed Bryan Johnson's Don't Die Summit & Here's What We Learned, by Plant Chompers youtu.be/Gz7FmNsnVYw
Good genes are nice, but joy is better, The Harvard Gazette https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/
0:00 Lets get skeptical 0:54 Ultra processed food 2:11 100 supplements! 3:45 Is olive oil all that? 4:12 Microbiome and fiber 5:40 Type of exercise for longevity 6:07 Bryan's doctorsWe Crashed Bryan Johnsons Dont Die Summit & Heres What We LearnedViva Longevity!2024-09-24 | Bryan Johnson is a biohacker trying to make death optional and achieve immortality. We attended his "Don't Die" summit to find out more.
Epidemiologists Develop State-of-the-Art Tool for Measuring Pace of Aging: DunedinPACE https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/epidemiologists-develop-state-art-tool-measuring-pace-agin
0:00 Who is Bryan Johnson? 5:03 The Blueprint Protocol for Longevity 8:48 Don't Die summit attendee interviews & morning rave 11:24 Richard Johnson interview 14:15 Blueprint lunch & fitness testing 16:32 Talmage Johnson interview 19:47 Don't Die summit workshops & Bryan's thoughts on hype 20:52 Attendee interviews 23:53 Naval Ravikant speaking on health 25:51 Bryan's advice for sleep 27:43 The shocking contamination of food 29:27 Blueprint microplastic testing 31:37 Bryan Johnson interview 34:08 How are the Johnsons in real life? 35:00 The Woman Who Beat Bryan's Pace of Aging 35:53 Is Bryan misunderstood? 37:41 Tech, AI & LongevityPaleo Anthropologist Daniel Lieberman On Sitting, Meat & ExerciseViva Longevity!2024-09-18 | How much, that is the question. How much sitting, meat and exercise for a long, healthy life.
Dr. Daniel Lieberman is the Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. He is the author of two best-selling books about human evolution and exercise.
Genetic study of the Arctic CPT1A variant suggests that its effect on fatty acid levels is modulated by traditional Inuit diet nature.com/articles/s41431-020-0674-0
0:00 Favorite paleo anthropology books 2:07 Is sitting harmful? 5:56 Healthiest exercise 8:10 Carnivore diet 11:17 Inuit adaptations 12:20 Right amount of exercise 14:11 Exercise and life span 16:02 Exercise intensity 18:37 Women's fertility and exercise2 Competing Diabetes Reversal Diets: 1 Winner.Viva Longevity!2024-09-01 | Two diets. Two programs. Two DRAMATICALLY different results.
0:00 The Virta Health approach 1:30 The Salud en tu Plato approach 3:58 Patient results 8:11 Salud's medical director 9:16 Salud's diet 12:17 A truck driver story 15:35 The Hispanic diabetes epidemic 18:12 The practical side 21:03 Funding the program 23:14 Virta Health & ketosis don't work
Red meat consumption and risk of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in a population with low meat consumption: the Golestan Cohort Study ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8460710
Long term nutritional intake and the risk for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): A population based study https://www.journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168-8278(07)00427-8/abstract
HARVARD: Red Meat Raises Diabetes Risk 62%. INTERNET: Nope. youtu.be/NgfTit87RYU?si=ShWad3hnpCmZtctYMexican Food Haul & Taste Test! 😋Viva Longevity!2024-08-20 | We visit a Mexican produce store in Watsonville, California, called El Primo Produce. Miguel takes us on a tour and we taste-test the yummy. He explains their history and use in Mexican cooking, with tips on how to spice up dishes.
We visited this store on our way to documenting Salud en tu Plato, a program helping save its local community from chronic diseases like diabetes.
BOOK: Como decirle adiós a la diabetes: Como controlar la glucosa en la sangre, y reducir o eliminar medicinas para la diabetes por medio de la nutrición y el estilo de vida adecuados (Spanish Edition) by Dr. Maria Jose Hummel amazon.com/Como-decirle-adi%C3%B3s-diabetes-controlar/dp/0978668995/ref=sr_1_1How TWIN STUDIES Changed ScienceViva Longevity!2024-07-29 | The Stanford Twin Registry provides twins for for many world-changing studies in aging, immunology, diet and more. With Dr. Mark Davis.
REFERENCES:
The Stanford Twin Registry https://iti.stanford.edu/ITI-TRR.html
The Mark M. Davis Lab https://med.stanford.edu/davislab.html
Stanford Center for Human Systems Immunology https://iti.stanford.edu/chsi.html
When one twin goes vegan and the other doesn’t: what a plant-based diet can and cannot do for you, explained by Netflix’s You Are What You Eat, by Vox
0:00 So MANY twins! 1:46 Intro to Dr. Mark Davis 3:17 Dr. Mark Davis speech 5:30 T cell attacks cancer cell 8:02 Why don't we have a cholesterol test for immunity? 10:28 A prescription for human immunology 17:30 Flu vaccinationDr. Anthony Chaffee: Plants Are Trying to KILL you!Viva Longevity!2024-07-14 | Dr. Chaffee: we evolved to eat meat. Plants are trying to kill us with carcinogens. Plant-based diets are deficient. Is he right?
VIDEOS:
Dr. Anthony Chaffee - 'Plants are trying to kill you!' — Low Carb Down Under youtu.be/j1cqNDDG4aA
DEBATE: Dr. Matthew Nagra vs. Dr. Anthony Chaffee on Whether "Plants Are Trying To Kill You" youtu.be/3FFV0w55k2I
SHOCKING cause of Deadly Meat Allergy: Medical Mystery Solved! youtu.be/4o7EOBCbwHA
New Harvard Study: What Are The Best Sources of Protein for Longevity? youtu.be/qC3Euh8Ghbs
REPLY TO BEN-DOR ET AL.: Oral bacteria of Neanderthals and modern humans exhibit evidence of starch adaptation by Christina Warinner pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2112526118
Total and cause-specific mortality by moderately and markedly increased ferritin concentrations: general population study and metaanalysis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25156997
0:00 Plants try to kill you 2:53 Debate Caffee vs Nagra 4:07 Chaffee principle 1: we're carnivores 9:20 Chaffee principle 2: plants kill us 14:50 Chaffee principle 3: plants are nutrient deficient 17:26 Red meat allergy 19:12 Heme iron toxicity 20:05 Beef lacks corotenoids 20:40 Fiber 23:34 Wild animals are healthier than tame 24:24 Science as a candle in the dark 26:59 Misbelief 30:37 How do we pick who to trust? 34:37 Anthony's background100 Year-Old Nutrition Professor: 7 Keys to Longevity | Dr. John ScharffenbergViva Longevity!2024-06-13 | Dr. Scharffenberg's Seven Keys To Longevity talk gets STANDING OVATIONS around the world. Dr. Scharffenberg's interview: youtu.be/iddFlIcxQi4?si=5Pl7PsegdiqwS0m3
NUTRITION PROFESSOR DR. JOHN SCHARFFENBERG BIO:
- Born in Shanghai, China Dec. 15, 1923. His first 16 years of life were in China. - Graduated from high school in Michigan in 1940 (president of his class) - The U.S. Army put him through medical school at Loma Linda University, CA. Graduated with his MD in 1947. - Master's in public health from Harvard University 1956 (elected by the faculty to the Delta Omega Society). - Served two more years in the army to pay for medical school: first year at Fort Ord, CA; 2nd as American Military Advisor to the Chinese military in Taiwan. - Taught at Loma Linda University as a professor of nutrition for 62 years. - Worked in San Bernardino County Health Dept. where he became department head. - Director of the International Nutrition Research Foundation in Riverside, CA. -Was on the secretariat of the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense located at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. - Assistant Director of the Department of Health of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. - Started the Public Health Education Center in Bakersfield, CA from funds due to the selling of the San Joaquin Hospital for 30 million dollars.
0:00 Dr. Scharffenberg's world lecturing tour 2:41 Dr. Scharffenberg's TEDx talk 4:12 First risk factor 4:40 How much alcohol is safe to drink? 5:42 Third risk factor 7:39 When it's most important to exercise 8:09 Fourth risk factor 8:50 Fifth risk factor 10:50 How much saturated fat to eat? 12:40 Do statins work? 13:47 The best diet 16:18 The power of lifestyleActual Science vs Carnivore FictionViva Longevity!2024-06-02 | The Framingham Study and the Mediterranean Diet vs Anthony Chaffee and the Carnivore Diet.
0:00 Carnivore diet fiction 1:50 Plants are trying to kill us 4:28 The story of John Scharffenberg 5:57 Dr. Daniel Levy interview 7:26 The story of Ed Freis 12:12 Roosevelt’s death 15:26 Epidemiology and patience 17:51 Social media vs science 20:09 Statins 21:12 Mendelian randomization 22:32 HDL cholesterol 25:57 Triglycerides to HDL ratio 27:23 Framingham fight for survival 34:54 The volunteers 37:00 Salt 40:25 Saturated fat 42:30 William Castelli 43:52 Healthiest diet 47:49 PFAS forever chemicals 48:45 Red meat 50:58 Framingham data for sale 52:25 Genetic studies 53.32 Anthony Chaffee Harvard approved
What are the major carcinogens in the etiology of human cancer? Environmental pollution, natural carcinogens, and the causes of human cancer: six errors pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2651291
Harvard University: the carnivore diet is a terrible idea https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/carnivore-diet-terrible-idea/
Veterans Administration Cooperative Study Group on Hypertensive Agents: effects of age on treatment results by Ed Freis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2006655
Serum cholesterol, lipoproteins, and the risk of coronary heart disease. The Framingham study by Willam Kannel pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5539274
Factors of risk in the development of coronary heart disease--six year follow-up experience. The Framingham Study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13751193
Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet Supplemented with Extra-Virgin Olive Oil or Nuts nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1800389
Comparative ecologic relationships of saturated fat, sucrose, food groups, and a Mediterranean food pattern score to 50-year coronary heart disease mortality rates among 16 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29769748
Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with a Mediterranean Diet Supplemented with Extra-Virgin Olive Oil or Nuts nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1800389
Residential proximity to major roads, exposure to fine particulate matter and aortic calcium: the Framingham Heart Study, a cohort study bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/3/e013455.longThe Human Health Study Thats Changing the WorldViva Longevity!2024-05-16 | It started as The Framingham Heart Study. Then it expanded into the most important human health study in the world.
Nicholas Christakis: The Sociological Science Behind Social Networks and Social Influence
Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/6/e010401
Is LDL cholesterol associated with long-term mortality among primary prevention adults? A retrospective cohort study from a large healthcare system pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38548371
0:00 When we were slender 0:41 A 75-year study 1:22 Anthony Chaffee fraudster 2:11 Aseem Malhotra misinformer 4:04 Tour de Framingham Study campus 14:35 Dr. Daniel Levy interview 17:37 Obesity 19:48 Nutritional beliefs 20:55 Good science vs bad 22:22 The study that is changing the worldShould You Worry About High LDL Cholesterol?Viva Longevity!2024-05-03 | Doctors fear it. Internet influencers embrace it. Consumers bet their lives on it. Is LDL cholesterol deadly or healthy?
VIDEOS:
End LDL-Cholesterol Fear Mongering: Life Insurance Companies Don't Even Care! (FACTS) By Mike Mutzel, High Intensity Health youtu.be/cUkAjIl5JrE?si=X1J3kyzwGD3xLJbW
Extreme high high-density lipoprotein cholesterol is paradoxically associated with high mortality in men and women: two prospective cohort studies pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28419274
Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27292972
0:00 Life insurance companies and LDL 2:48 The research behind LDL 5:45 Is high HDL harmful? 7:08 The Internet and HDL 8:21 The LDL is good for you bandwagonFrom Fat Vegan to Skinny Success StoryViva Longevity!2024-04-21 | The REAL reason behind Chef AJ's extraordinary weight loss success
0:00 Who is Chef AJ? 2:28 Chef AJ Kitchen tour & Studio tour 7:38 Chef AJ's Weight loss story 20:17 What Chef AJ cooks & eats 34:56 Responding to criticism 39:37 Chef AJ’s comedy career & motivation 42:47 Future goalsHow To Feed 10 BILLION People — Without Wrecking Us OR Our Planet.Viva Longevity!2024-04-08 | Leading scientists describe the best diet for both human and planetary health.
[12] WORLD RESOURCES REPORT: CREATING A SUSTAINABLE FOOD FUTURE A Menu of Solutions to Feed Nearly 10 Billion People by 2050 research.wri.org/wrr-foodUnraveling the Controversy: Stanford Twin Study ExplainedViva Longevity!2024-04-04 | Reviewer: "This video adds SO MUCH valuable context & clarifications, it should be Episode 5 in the Netflix docuseries."
Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review by Uffe Ravnskov & David Diamond bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/6/e010401.long
Association of lipoprotein levels with mortality in subjects aged 50 + without previous diabetes or cardiovascular disease: A population-based register study pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23941088
BLOGS:
A study comparing the effects of vegan and omnivorous diets fails Science 101 by Peter Attia
0:00 Head explosions from the Netflix Twins Documentary 1:04 The first Stanford paper 2:18 Are Stanford scientists biased towards veganism? 3:42 The Internet lost its mind over Netflix 4:59 The fascinating backstory 9:12 The difference between Netflix and Stanford 12:25 The negative reviews 13:20 Nina Teicholz 15:15 The Triumph of Doubt 16:02 the supplement salesmen: Paul Saladino 21:23 Popular health book misinformation: Peter Attia 25:45 Low carb misinformation 28:10 Why LDL? 31:36 What Walter Willett thought 33:25 Funding 34:21 Louie Psihoyos: telomeresHow To Save Your World & Your Body: My Cambridge University TalkViva Longevity!2024-03-10 | We can change our world and our health with a simple change.
VIDEOS:
Stefan Rahmstorf: The public climate debate — climate skepticism and denial. youtu.be/J2gkWsaQ-7A
FACTORS OF RISK IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE – SIX YEAR FOLLOW-UP EXPERIENCE, THE FRAMINGHAM STUDY http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/document/factors-of-risk-in-the-development-of-coronary-heart-disease-six-year-follow-up-experience-the-framingham-study/
The North-East-South gradient of coronary heart disease mortality and case fatality rates in France is consistent with a similar gradient in risk factor clusters pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10959938
0:00 Plant-Based Cambridge & Chris MacAskill intro 2:27 How scientists figured out climate change was human-caused & industry response 10:06 Worst offenders in current food production 15:15 How epidemiologists figured out smoking was bad & industry response 22:03 How we figured out which dietary patterns are healthy 37:40 Q&A - Best meat alternatives? 39:20 Is a 100% vegan diet best? 41:37 Is plant-based eating globally accessible? 45:14 Why are fish bad? PFASWe crashed Dr. Michael Gregers book tour. It blew our minds.Viva Longevity!2024-02-17 | Dr. Greger is giving speeches about How Not to Age, his new book — and I noticed a tour stop near us; so we decided to crash it.
Cover photo credit: Umpqua Community Veg Education Group (UC-VEG) via ucveg.org
0:00 Dr. Greger past 0:58 Unlikely best seller 2:42 Greger is John Oliver 4:11 Hot date 4:33 Experience on the diet 9:32 Fact checking Dr. Greger 17:58 Food intolerances 19:38 Dr. Hummel, food, a choir 21:36 Book signingHARVARD: Red Meat Raises Diabetes Risk 62%. INTERNET: Nope.Viva Longevity!2024-01-30 | Harvard's paper, red meat = diabetes, launched 100 headlines, all positive. And 20 YouTubes, all negative. Who got it right?
Red meat consumption and risk factors for type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials nature.com/articles/s41430-022-01150-1
Red meat consumption associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/red-meat-consumption-associated-with-increased-type-2-diabetes-risk/
0:00 Coverage of the Harvard Study 2:10 Xiao Gu: Epidemiology vs Biostatistics 3:01 News vs YouTubers 3:43 Epidemiology & Framingham 6:07 How Beef Has Changed 6:56 Food Frequency Questionnaires 10:50 The Study Participants 13:55 Ideological Vegetarianism? 16:42 Zoe Harcombe's Blog 20:33 Losing Our Minds with Anecdotes 22:07 Harvard Epidemiology 23:28 Short Term Trials Fail 27:16 Advances in Epidemiology 32:10 Meat Eaters Have Less Healthy Habits? 33:31 Mediators and Confounders 34:52. Causal Inference 36:34 The Bradford Hill Criteria 38:53 Red Meat A Bigger Factor for Exercisers? 40:02 Fish is Surprisingly Hazardous 42:35 Why Harvard Shows a Stronger AssociationHarvard Prof Willett and Med Student Norwitz Discuss an INSANE Cookies vs. Statins ExperimentViva Longevity!2024-01-22 | Nutrition Professor Walter Willett is a giant in nutrition; Nick Norwitz performed an insane cookie vs statin experiment on himself; I was so fascinated to see Dr. Willett's reaction, I filmed it.
Oreo Cookie Treatment Lowers LDL Cholesterol More Than High-Intensity Statin therapy in a Lean Mass Hyper-Responder on a Ketogenic Diet: A Curious Crossover Experiment mdpi.com/2218-1989/14/1/73
Harvard: Red meat consumption associated with increased type 2 diabetes risk https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/red-meat-consumption-associated-with-increased-type-2-diabetes-risk/
Increased LDL-cholesterol on a low-carbohydrate diet in adults with normal but not high body weight: a meta-analysis ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S0002-9165(24)00009-1/fulltextPeter Attias Longevity Book Outlive: The BEST or WORST longevity book?Viva Longevity!2023-12-20 | Dr. Attia's book Outlive is like no other longevity book. It defies the wisdom of other longevity books and it's the #7 best-selling book on Amazon overall. Is it great? Or just another best-selling fad diet book?
BOOKS:
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia
The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study
The Longevity Diet by Valter Longo
The Path to Longevity: The Secrets to Living a Long, Happy, Healthy Life by Luigi Fontana
How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older by Michael Greger
The Telomere Effect: A Revolutionary Approach to Living Younger, Healthier, Longer by Elizabeth Blackburn & Elissa Epel.
Lifespan: Why We Age - and Why We Don't Have To by David Sinclair
Age Later: Health Span, Life Span, and the New Science of Longevity by Nir Barzilai
The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life by Rose Ann Kenny
Unaging: The four factors that impact how you age by Robert Friedland
How We Age: The Science of Longevity by Coleen Murphy
Effects of protein supplementation on lean body mass, muscle strength, and physical performance in nonfrail community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916522030234
Effects of protein supplementation on lean body mass, muscle strength, and physical performance in nonfrail community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916522030234
Comparative ecologic relationships of saturated fat, sucrose, food groups, and a Mediterranean food pattern score to 50-year coronary heart disease mortality rates among 16 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study nature.com/articles/s41430-018-0183-1
Familial and diet-induced hypercholesterolemia in swine. Lipid, ApoB, and ApoA-I concentrations and distributions in plasma and lipoprotein subfractions. ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.ATV.14.6.923
Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73) bmj.com/content/353/bmj.i1246
0:00 My book problem 2:26 Muscle loss 3:19 Why this review 4:32 Exercise 7:09 Strength 9:24 Centenarian decathlon 11:08 Diet 17:26 Epidemiology 23:37 Ketogenic diet 24:47 High protein diet 27:22 Salt and blood pressure 31:02 Excess protein 32:46 My opinion of OutliveHow Not To Age: The Longevity Book That Blew My Mind | Dr. Michael GregerViva Longevity!2023-11-29 | I've read more than 12 books on aging & longevity but never a book like this from Dr. Greger. Didn't know it was possible. 13,000 references!
0:00 The best longevity books 1:49 The worst longevity books 3:43 How Not To Age 6:21 Fact checking Dr. Greger 8:24 Why a book on aging 15:12 The main pathways of aging 25:28 Hormesis 29:44 Is Dr. Greger biased? 34:47 Alzheimer's 41:49 Protein 49:50 Browning/cooking food 56:55 Plant based America 1:01:17 Beef & chicken 1:17:00 How good is How Not to Age? 1:19:30 Cuteness overload
Supplement-based nutritional strategies to tackle frailty: A multifactorial, double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled trial by Hamilton Roschel pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34358827
Red Pen Reviews: Expert nutrition book reviews that sort fact from fiction redpenreviews.org
THE BIG FAT SURPRISE: A CRITICAL REVIEW; PART 1 by Seth Yoder thedietwars.com/the-big-fat-surprise-a-critical-review-part-1-by-seth-yoderThe PFAS Forever Chemicals Poisoning Our Food: Theyre in YouViva Longevity!2023-11-15 | PFAS are forever chemicals and the most toxic compounds we know — and the primary path to toxicity is by eating and drinking. These chemicals are everywhere and have been found in everything from food to water to rain.
Current Review of Increasing Animal Health Threat of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Harms, Limitations, and Alternatives to Manage Their Toxicity mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/14/11707
Speed vs. sustainability: The race to ban ‘forever chemicals’ on ski slopes https://www.politico.eu/article/speed-sustainability-race-ban-forever-chemicals-fluorinated-ski-wax-alps/
States are leading the way to safer chemicals saferstates.org
0:00 The Most toxic compounds: PFAS 2:34 DuPont's dark secret 4:13 Wrecking our immune system 5:26 How we know PFAS are toxic 10:42 Toxicology and epidemiology 13:27 Pathway to exposure: food 15:40 How food gets contaminated 18:57 Parts per trillion 21:05 PFAS in produce 22:48 Contaminated fish 24:12 PFAS whack-a-mole 28:02 Forever chemicals in plants 32:15 Give blood 33:06 RegulatorsHow Nutrition Misinformation Spreads 2: Fact Checking Dr. David Diamonds ResponseViva Longevity!2023-10-08 | Dr. Diamond is a rock star in the low carb community. Is he right about nutrition? Statins?
0:00 Misinformation reigns 1:18 Dr. Diamond pushes back 3:45 Banting's Letter on Corpulence 7:27 Mormon longevity 14:43 Ancel Keys 18:05 Statins & the Jupiter Study 28:46 How misinformation spreads 31:14 Criticism of Dr. Diamond?How Nutrition Misinformation Spreads 1: Fact Checking Dr David DiamondViva Longevity!2023-09-05 | Follow a lecture by Dr David Diamond to see how food myths spread.
10 patients, 10 years – Long term follow-up of cardiovascular risk factors in Glut1 deficiency treated with ketogenic diet therapies: A prospective, multicenter case series sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261561417313997
Atherosclerosis: A Problem in Newer Public Health by Ancel Keys 1953 http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Keys-Atherosclerosis-A-Problem-in-Newer-Public-Health.pdf
Comparative ecologic relationships of saturated fat, sucrose, food groups, and a Mediterranean food pattern score to 50-year coronary heart disease mortality rates among 16 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study nature.com/articles/s41430-018-0183-1
0:00 Truth goggles? 2:10 Dr. Diamond claim about LDL 2:49 Banting: low carb? 6:31 Densmore: no carbs? 8:07 Kellogg: vegetarian? 8:38 Pennington & Atkins: fat? 9:53 Is low carb healthy? 10:53 Ancel Keys 12:19 The Minnesota Starvation Experiment 13:41 Ancel Keys Time magazine cover 14:34 Ancel Keys famous 1953 graph 23:03 The Seven Countries Study 25:33 Epidemiology 29:18 Dr. Diamond paper on statins 30:47 France 34:32 How misinformation spreadsHigh LDL on a Keto Diet. Should You Worry? | Nick Norwitz & Dave FeldmanViva Longevity!2023-08-15 | Your cardiologist just freaked out. Should you?
High LDL Cholesterol Increases on a Low Carb Diet - The Lipid Energy Model youtu.be/AkzxESsTJyM
Elevated LDL Cholesterol with a Carbohydrate-Restricted Diet: Evidence for a "Lean Mass Hyper-Responder" Phenotype pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35106434
Case Report: Hypercholesterolemia “Lean Mass Hyper-Responder” Phenotype Presents in the Context of a Low Saturated Fat Carbohydrate-Restricted Diet ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9048595
An Ester of β-Hydroxybutyrate Regulates Cholesterol Biosynthesis in Rats and a Cholesterol Biomarker in Humans pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26498829
Effect of carbohydrate-restricted dietary interventions on LDL particle size and number in adults in the context of weight loss or weight maintenance: a systematic review and meta-analysis pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34159352
0:00 Nick Norwitz 2:06 Dave Feldman 4:22 Lean Mass Hyper Responders 16:59 Heart attacks in children 20:01 Studies of plaque buildup 29:19 LDL in older adults 45:10 HDL 49:06 The LMHR model 59:38 How Dave Feldman discovered LMHR 1:09:18 Nick's Oreo cookie experiment 1:21:50 keto diets and the LDL receptor