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Repeat: the Great Creator has gifted us with creativity. Our gift back is our use of it. Do not let friends squander your time.
The Artist's Way
Julia Cameron
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
There exists a relationship between poor balance, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and depression. Half of all people with TBI suffer from anxiety as a consequence. In fact, half of people with TBI suffer from depression for a year following the injury, and nearly two-thirds still suffer from it after seven years. Rebooting the neural system through balance training has an extraordinary effect on these negative mental states. After a series of balance challenges, the trainee’s disposition changes internally, but outwardly, there are clear indications of psychological improvement visible in body language, facial expression, color, and energy.
Balance Is Power
Jim Klopman and Janet Miller
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