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Today I wanted to discuss a

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few things related to eating for

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long term health tying in areas

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where the too long jeopardy because

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over this past weekend I had

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the privilege of presenting at the

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Sports Nutrition Association conference and my

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A presentation was essentially to take

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this concept which has become pop

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realize certain on the internet and

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in social media about diet as

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well as other types of strategies

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that can increase. Longevity or that

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can make us live longer. Or.

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That you see these bio hackers using

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and that's are a range of different

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interventions. Ice A in the field of

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nutrition fasting has become one of those

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as well as certain compounds and supplements

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can help you increase your life span

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beyond what we thought was normal heart.

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These are some of the claims are

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the some A very surfer several get

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into more specifics in a bit. But.

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Seen as that, there's. What a buzz around

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that on social media. And many nutrition

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press professionals may have people coming to them

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that have seen these things on, are interested

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or who maybe even want to discuss these

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in a more evidence based way. That.

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Was the initial opening of

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the idea of this lecture.

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Was. What types of claimed the receiving

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really? Are those types of claims? Number

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one accurate but more so are the

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even asking the right question. And.

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Beyond that, what is a better

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way for us to conceptualize the

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idea of what we should do

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with our diet if we are

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concerned with leading a long, healthy

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life. And. So that was

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the essential. Thrust, Of the

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idea. Now. There's no shortage

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of various claims and to he

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just go tied to any this

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into google or you tube. you

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see those with the biggest number

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of views on Youtube clips or

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social media posts. Are. Referring

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to bio hackers that are spending

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literally millions of dollars. On

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all sorts of protocols have come up

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with. Literally hundreds of pills

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a day. Some of them are

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promoting really long fasts either extends

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fast or every day having like

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an eighteen hour window, or some

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of them claiming that they are

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going to be extending their lifespan

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not only beyond what is normal.

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But. What is even been seen in

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humans to this point? as at some

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of the more outlandish claims you see,

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On a less outlandish I'd you also

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see people talking about various types of.

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Dietary. Protocols. Supplementation.

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Except for that has an ability

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to extend life so to get

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us as an individual. To.

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Move beyond the a typical

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median. That said, the average

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age or or life expectancy

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through doing these things. Are.

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Certainly prevent us succumbing to

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death before this point. So.

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Really, there's a number of different

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claims that we could think about.

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Basically broad, we think of different

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buckets. In. Relation to Die At

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least there can be ones that are

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specific on a type of eating that

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going to leave. To.

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A longer life through certain mechanisms

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that have been described. so for

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example, In. This butter I would

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play something like fasting. And

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there's something like a chain of

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events were through fasting. you. ramp

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up this process of atop a

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g. And. Through that that's

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going to lead you to live

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longer so we can look at

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that. Such a degree of dietary

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restriction that will transfer into increase

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longevity is a that claim. Then.

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There are others that for me about

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specific compounds that we can find in

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certain foods I think when the most

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popular at least that was from the

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nineties, the two thousand and so on.

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Whether his initial buzz about it and

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he's meeting wise was something like resveratrol

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which we find the red wine. And.

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Talking about how certain compounds have been

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demonstrated to have an effect on particular

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pathway in the body. And. So

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if you consume these compounds

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either in farmers to logical

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dos or through foods or

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drinks. That. Can have some sort of.

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Aging. Reversal of it for like a better

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term. And then there's another

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bucket where people will. Be.

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Really afraid of certain compounds are in

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foods. And. This

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usually ties in with are these compounds

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are found within foods that you've been

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told are healthy for. You would affect

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their slowly killing you. See.

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What you need to do is follow a special

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very restrictive diet. And yet

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they desire occur and narrow band of

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claims. but it might be that there's

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a certain compounds. In.

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Vegetables for example of are in lagoons

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that are slowly killing you. So if

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you switch over to something like it

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kind of or diet through this then

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you are not going to succumb to

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death early and you can live longer

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healthier life. But beyond that some of

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them even get into more things of

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of. how that could increase your

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lifespan beyond what is typical.

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Now it's probably worth noting that there are

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a few different terms that get

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used differently, but when we're thinking about

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some of the language that is used,

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it's worth having maybe some definitions in

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mind, at least how I've categorized them.

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And we also have a nice sigma

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statement looking at some of the aspects

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of fasting, where we give

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a more precise description of some of these

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terms. We can have within

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the field of longevity, this term,

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we can think of longevity on both

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an individual level and then a species

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level. So on the species level, this

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is just the period of time that

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a member of that species would be

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expected to live under typical conditions, let's

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say. And so when we're talking about

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the longevity of a certain

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type of animal, or if we're

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talking about even humans, we

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would say at the species level, there's

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a typical life expectancy under normal conditions.

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But most often what is being referred to in some

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of these claims that we're talking about is maybe on

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an individual level. So for an

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individual's longevity, it relates to that individual's

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ability to survive past the average age

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of death. So if we take the

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median age of death in

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that particular species, so let's take humans,

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and we would also take, based on their demographics,

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we would have a typical average

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age of death within this

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particular type of population. And

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then we can look at what

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is an individual's capability

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or possibility of going beyond that

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average age. This would describe some

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degree of longevity. And so

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one of those terms that sometimes crops

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up in literature is exceptional longevity, which

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is typically defined as surviving

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and living independently at an

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age of 95 and older. And

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when you see this type of

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longevity, this exceptional longevity of living

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independently beyond the age of 95,

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for example, this is strongly genetic,

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which we will return back to

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but typically that is going to be in

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many of these situations. Now

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