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I have now been researching healthy longevity for more than thirty years, studying the links between nutrition and the genes that regulate cellular protection and regeneration. The Longevity Diet collects what I have learned and puts it into a simple program anyone can live by. It is as simple as adopting the daily nutritional regimen I outline and combining it periodically (two to twelve times per year, depending on your general health) with my fasting-mimicking diet (FMD), which is exactly what it sounds like: a diet that mimics a fast, providing the benefits of fasting without the deprivation and hunger. Combining these two elements, I have discovered, can protect, regenerate, and rejuvenate the body to keep us young and healthy longer. This is achieved in part by turning back the biological aging clock, which means that these diets can be adopted by relatively young people to help delay aging and prevent disease, and also by older individuals to help them return to a more youthful state. The FMD is also clinically proven to stimulate the loss of abdominal fat while conserving muscle and bone mass. These benefits are generated by switching on the human body’s own remarkable ability to activate stem cells and regenerate parts of cells, systems, and organs, leading to a reduction of risk factors for many diseases. In the chapters that follow, I will explain first why it works, then how it works.
The Longevity Diet
Valter Longo
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Another important function of undesirable metrics is that they can be used as guardrails, alerting us when desirable metrics are having too much sway. Former Intel CEO Andy Grove, a metrics pioneer whose approach to quantifying performance influenced a generation of Silicon Valley leaders, believed that every metric has the potential to backfire. Grove is credited with introducing a crucial imperative: “For every metric, there should be another ‘paired’ metric that addresses the adverse consequences of the first metric.”
Decoding Greatness
Ron Friedman
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