Bcoulal's Journal, 26 March 2016

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Fasting can increase lifespan as well as delay diseases such as cancer, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and neuro-degenerative and respiratory failures related to aging? Interesting...

Can't say I didn't already know this, but at least I now have science to back me up. Maybe I'm on the right track when I practice intermittent fasting combined with a ketogenic diet?

"Sir2 (the mammalian homolog is SIRT1) is a nicotinamide-adenine-dinucleotide-dependent histone deacetylase that interacts with numerous transcription factors to silence gene transcription. Sir2 is upregulated by CR and is required for life-span extension effects of CR in Caenorhabditis elegans (reviewed in [6]). mTOR is a serine/threonine kinase that is activated by insulin, nutrients, and growth factors and is a central regulator of ribosome biogenesis, protein synthesis, and cell growth. Inhibition of mTOR increases life span in Drosophila and C. elegans (reviewed in [16])."

Aside from the scientific jargon, for people with less than a triple-digit IQ, it basically means to stop eating food that increases the IGF-1 (insulin growth factor - 1) and you may live longer, but that doesn't guarantee that someone else won't break into your house and murder you (but that's besides the point and beyond the scope of this discussion).

Now I know why everyone wants to have a "higher metabolism" and run on treadmills in the gym like a hamster on a wheel after they've eaten tons of fattening carbs thinking exercise is the answer to a longer life. It's a temporary solution to a bigger problem. They're not entirely aware of why they "need" a higher metabolism. It's because they're eating foods that causes them to "need" it in the first place. Stop the cause and you'll stop the need. Simple as that.

A higher metabolism doesn't necessarily extend lifespan (under natural circumstances, such as the wild), a lower metabolism does [see reference], it actually makes life shorter by increasing the rate of telomere separation (in your DNA) via "higher metabolisms" when you constantly induce unconventional stress into your body, such as exercise and eating stress inducing foods.

Basically this is the human's (specifically American) version of the the hamster's wheel: Eat more calories, exercise more, eat more calories, repeat history, develop preventable chronic illnesses when you're older, rely on Obamacare, die from one of the many preventable chronic diseases as terminal illness. The human's version of the hamster's wheel.

Reference: Calorie Restriction Extends Lifespan

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