17/01/2023
Not just protein, carbs, and fats but also the 25,000 phytochemicals (plant-signaling molecules), many of which act beneficially on these longevity switches. While current science may not consider these essential nutrients, they are, in fact, essential.
A lack of these nutrients may not cause an immediate deficiency disease like scurvy from lack of vitamin C, but they cause long-latency deficiency diseases — heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, and accelerated aging.
If I were to prescribe one intervention to extend life, to prevent and reverse chronic disease, it would be to dramatically reduce or eliminate sugar and refined starch from your diet.
The flood of sugar and starch drives your pancreas to produce more and more insulin to keep blood sugar under control. This leads to insulin resistance, or the inability of our cells to “hear” the signals from insulin. What does the body do then? It produces more and more insulin.
Unfortunately, this excessive amount of insulin drives sugar and fat into the cells, primarily into the fat cells around your abdominal organs — visceral fat, otherwise known as belly fat—locks the fat in those cells, slows down metabolism, and increases hunger and craving for carbohydrates, all things that worsen blood sugar control and insulin resistance and lead to the diseases of aging.
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