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These results are evidence of the potential of nutritechnology—that is, understanding the effect of food composition on specific genes and pathways in the quest for therapeutic diets that are minimally disruptive yet have effects comparable or superior to drug therapy. This is different from the concept of “nutraceuticals,” which in most cases are foods engineered for concentrated levels of particular molecules that have specific biological or medical functions.
The Longevity Diet
Valter Longo
Practice periodic prolonged fasting: People under age sixty-five who are neither frail nor malnourished and are free of major diseases should undergo two periods of five days a year in which they consume a relatively high-calorie fasting-mimicking diet, or FMD.
The Longevity Diet
Valter Longo
That everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
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