I think that's a really smart observation. Stress will get you no matter what you eat but everyone has stress so hopefully eating healthy helps the body deal with the consequences of having stress. Also, I think it's a balance so aside from eating healthy, I think you also have to have some focus on exercise and of course we always neglect our spiritual health too which is the trifecta. Body, mind, spirit.
I agree. I spent a good deal of my live in a high anxiety state. Now that all those causes of anxiety are out of my life ( mostly dead) I have, at 70, finally been able to start to manage my weight and sleep and enjoy life.
That is undoubtedly true, but in terms of diet, it is still preferable to follow a Mediterranean diet, which will provide you with a sufficient amount of vitamins, minerals, and other essential elements to help your brain and hormones guide you to a less stressful future.
My gorgeous grandma lived until 104 and a half. She ate everything in moderation and lived a very active life. She drove until she was 103 and lived on her own and did her own yard work and house cleaning. She was actively serving others her whole life. Her life was based on Joy and service , that is how I'm trying to live my life now❤
That is an excellent way of looking at life. Every individual is different and I don't think there's a perfect diet for every individual. We all know the type of food we need to stay away from. Eating meat is perfectly fine just like eating vegetables is as well is as well. Don't let a guy with a baseball cap and a blue sweater on the internet tell you some hand-picked facts about this and that. Funny he did not mention Don Gorske who is 70. Shirley others who would do that would have died long time ago. Eating everything in moderation is a perfect key like you said.
I ate a high-protein diet, that was animal based, for 20 years before being diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Virtually everything I ate was commercially prepared as I was working long hours, 7 days a week. When I learned I had cancer, I did a 180 degree turn and started cooking again and focused on the Mediterranean diet. Thirty years later, I'm still alive and kicking and eating the Mediterranean diet. I rarely eat meat, poultry, or fish, take lots of supplements, fast, exercise, and greatly enjoy life. I still have active cancer but my lifestyle has minimized its affect on my body (it is throughout my body but tumor sizes have been held in check). I don't know how much longer I can keep this up, as I'm 79, but I hoping to make it to 120+ lol.
I think that stress management is #1, diet being a close #2. Simply because we have so many centenarians who are chronic smokers and wine-lovers with a sweet tooth. Many of them are sedentary and have mediocre diets. But the thing that unites all centenarians is a stress-free mindset.
I must disagree. The science simply does not support this notion. The avoidance of stress can be a cop-out, ie "I drink to relieve my stress" or "Eating junk food relaxes me". I worked in long-term care and many, many elderly people had been through war. But they made it into their eighties and nineties by staying slender and active, and eating sensibly.
@@paulmaxwell8851 First of all, your personal opinion is not "science". The fact that you know people who went through war but lived to their eighties means nothing. It's not what they've been through but how they dealt with it that matters. I based my view on the centenarians, some of whom were passionate wine/chocolate lovers, chronic smokers, people who never went to the gym, tragically lost loved ones, overcame illnesses etc. but the only thing that unites them ALL is that they never stressed about anything. Look up the blue zones and investigate for yourself.
How would you know that somebody never stressed about anything ? Pretty sure most people are rather relaxed at 05 or 99 or 100+, but does not say anything about their earlier life. Living through war for instance, is hardly possible without stress.@@valerio226
My Grandfather lived to nearly 99 and he ate tons of saturated fat and had something sweet with every meal. I asked him one time what he attributed his long life to and he said don’t stop moving. He walked twice a day for 2-5 miles. I honestly think genetics is the number one reason for longevity. My Mom lived to 90 and she was healthy. She ate everything. On my Dads side they all died in their 40’s and 50’s.
Genetics? What we do with our lives plays the biggest role. Smoke, drink, drugs, unhealthy diets will result in problems. But a perfectly healthy 20 year old can drop dead from a heart attack. Apparently we have been seeing a rise in those young suddenly de ad.
@@rdallas81I recommend you rethink your comment. A perfectly healthy person cannot drop dead of a heart attack. Those 2 concepts are diametric opposites. There can be a huge difference between a person who appears to be perfectly healthy, and one who is. Dying of a heart attack is the opposite of being perfectly healthy.
@@hydrolito Man, people will try just about anything- Too many chemicals in everything. Drugs everywhere, PFAS, and plastic particles floating in the air we breath, many places called superfund sites in the USA that are toxic but people drink the water-
@@hydrolito obesity is multifaceted problem because it's based on hormones particularly which is affected by everything in out polluted environment. People getting cancer at rates that are scary and at younger and younger ages-
My great-grandfather smoked cigarettes and chewed tobacco all of his adult life. He lived to age 95 and lived by himself until age 93. Now, I'm not advocating these habits, but he was a farmer and grew his own food. He grew a large vegetable garden, had a fruit orchard, raised beef cattle and hogs, had a dairy herd, and raised chickens. He canned his veggies and fruit for consumption during the winter months. He cured hams, shoulders, bacon, and made his own sausage. When he was a young man he worked the fields with a team of horses and mules. He was still a tall, stout man when he had a stroke at age 93. I don't think he ever ate at a restaurant, certainly never ate fast food or any type of processed foods, no TV dinners, he never owned a microwave. He was still physically active until he had a stroke at 93.
That was the far far distant past. Billions more are alive now and they all pollute. All food was organic then, now its GMO. Also 99% of all meat is raised in factory farms, shot full of growth hormones, antibiotics and live a live of misery. Eat like your ancestors now? You can't. That world is long gone. Get smart and listen to the science or die dreaming of your GreatGramps. 100% whole food plant-based is better for you, our environment and the animal victims.
My grandparents and great grandmother lived a long time, my great grandmother died at 102 after a fall. The biggest thing is they did not eat processed foods back then, They ate a high fat diet and lots of vegetables as well, they even saved their bacon grease and animal fats to cook with. Processed foods are full of chemicals now and our vegetable's and fruits are full of dangerous pesticides that are killing us. Many other countries have banned many food items that are sold in our stores, that should tell you something. The USDA and FDA pass these poisons as safe as long as the company pays them enough to do so.
On my father’s side, my great grandmother dipped snuff, didn’t drink alcohol, was sedentary, ate an egg every day, and wasn’t focused on her diet. She passed way in the prime of her life at age 102. She believed that we have a “limited number number of steps” in our lives. On my mother’s side, my great aunt smoked cigarettes everyday all day, drank alcohol, baked pies (and ate them) each week, had a sedentary life, and wasn’t concerned about diet. Doctors put her on the nicotine patch at 90 years old and told her to quit cigarettes. She lived to 93. My grandmother (her sister) lived to 95. She didn’t use tobacco, didn’t drink alcohol, was sedentary, and didn’t concern herself with diet. The remarkable thing about these three women is how little they had in common. Perhaps they were just exceptions to the rules that diet and lifestyle matter in longevity. I believe that diet and lifestyle have a bigger influence on the quality of your life, but mean much less when it comes to predicting longevity. There are worse things than dying young; namely, a long life with chronic disease that is influenced by choices in food, beverage and lifestyle.
Yes, I agree. At best this video is presenting anecdotal evidence. There is also a lot of anecdotal and empirical evidence for a 100% carnivore diet being good for health and longevity, reversing chronic diseases and such. So... who's right? Vegan and vegetarian diets might look like the quick, easy and ethical solution to health, but things aren't that easy.
@@mq1995 The empirical evidence in many countries, including those with a culinary heritage that dates back much further than the West, such as India, suggests that a primarily vegetarian diet is better for health and longevity. The 100% carnivore diet has never existed--it is a modern hallucination. @murrayburke7746 is making a different point
Heredity is a factor in longevity, however, most people will benefit greatly from a plant based diet. Then of course, the animals will benefit from not being slaughtered and the planet will benefit from less greenhouse gasses and less land being destroyed for grazing, then humanity will benefit from the greater availability of water not being used for massive cattle production and from the greater availability of fruits, vegetables, grains, etc. In fact we can feed the world if we go plant based.
@@mq1995 people should consider trying different approaches to eating, have blood work done and see what Mother Nature has to say. On the main plant based will probably win but not for everyone. This question has become far too tribal. Treat yourself like the organism it is and see what works. Opinions have no place in this discussion, but science does.
Mine made it to 96 and he ate tons of spinach, beets, kale, squash, etc nearly every day from his garden, and started the day with a bowl of cereal piled with in-season fruit. He ate meat and dairy too, but reduced his red meat intake and sought out low fat dairy at the suggestion of his doctor in his 60's. He cooked his veggies in water and seasoning and made it the majority of his plate, and often had beans as the main event.He used sweet&low in his coffee every day but no cream. He had a small portion of dessert nearly every day, and didn't really snack. He went to the doctor regularly for checkups, and did what they said. He kept up with his outdoor container garden, his plot garden down the street, and golf. He went for a walk every day. He fixed all of the things in his house as they broke- even if it was with duck tape. Every single day he showered and got dressed and kept his keys and wallet in his pocket, ready to go. He kept his mind sharp with sudoku over coffee and regularly went to symphony performances, church, and other events like going to the pumpkin patch or fireworks... up until the last month of his life. He died because he refused to accept help with showers and bathroom, bc he wasn't interested in giving up that independence, and slipped and fell. None of this is rocket science. It's about consistent, daily, good habits. If born into an average body, that's where longevity comes from.
@@gerrysecure5874Do you do everything that feels good even if it is horrible for you lol. If you want true happiness health and peace of mind is where it is at.
My wife’s 102 year old uncle is all one of the last surviving DDay soldiers. He’s eats whatever he wants to.. I’m convinced at least 80% of it is genetics has nothing to do with anything else
What jumps out is the integrity of your research and academic tone. I immediately subscribed. It's obvious that 'the truth matters' to the extent that you've won the trust of a healthy reverential skeptic.
My health dramatically turned around for the better when I cut sugars, large amounts of carbs, and processed foods from my diet. That said, this data you’ve compiled shows some interesting correlations. One thing that often goes unnoticed by many is that the older generations that lived lengthier lives didn’t have to contend with everything being kept in plastic, daily exposure to cancer-causing elements in devices, etc. It would be interesting to see the human lifespan a century or two from now if things don’t change.
were they though? A lot of anti-carcinogen, environmental-protection, public health/safety, etc. laws & programs came after the 70s, 80, 90s, right? So a lot of those of the older generation were exposed to unhealthy levels of cancer causing agents, pollution, etc. throughout child & adulthood. God knows they were exposed to crazy levels of lead too lol. I'd like to think that modern medicine & advances in technology will offset the new health issues of today (like microplastics in drinking water), but I think a plant-based diet will definitely alleviate some suffering and keep you from having to turn to pharmaceuticals too early in life.
I like that. You're rationalizing that maybe it's the food containers and not the low carb diets that killed these people. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Both my parents died of preventable diseases at 66, That was 30 years ago. They retired at 65 and died at 66. I'm 62 and I"m not taking the risks they took.
@@Viva-Longevity In fact my vegan so has taken me to see 2 Gregor talks and we have 2 signed copies of How Not to Die. :D His videos are always entertaining and informative. I wouldn't be surprised if he lived to 120!!!!
Thanks for sharing your story. Am uncle of mine died this on the 1st day of 2022 out of kidney failure and hypertension after retiring 2 years ago. That was so painful and that shook me to the point where i do not joke with health and nutrition. I even gave up the American dream. A lot of people are dying like this, working their whole life for nothing.
@@Viva-Longevity I sorry to be the one to tell you sir.. We the United States of America did go to the moon and there was nothing fake about it... NASA did a great job of going to the moon..You should really stop 🛑🛑 spreading GOSSIP that is lies...
My mom is from a Crete and very Greek Orthodox. We never ate meat on wednesdays and Fridays. During lent we avoided dairy and meat. We ate lots of veggies and beans that we grew. My mom is now 83 and is a power house. She would make the best Greek sweet bread and other Greek pasteries during holy week and we couldn't eat any till Easter (Pascha).
Athonite monks generally live extraordinarily long lives. It’s more the fasting and lack of processed foods than anything. There’s a wonderful book called “The Athos diet” by an Orthodox MD that details all this. ☦️
I'm about to turn 70. I believe in listening to your body, we're all different. I love eggs, butter, cheese and some meat, but not pork except for sometimes a bit of bacon. I eat some vegies, but I love fruit and eat a lot of it. No alcohol, don't smoke, fast 18:6. No bread, no junk food. Olive oil only. My father lived to over 90. His health began to decline when he stopped having his daily bacon and egg breakfast. My brother is close to 85, still doing well, has cut out a lot of dairy food. My grandmother lived to 87, had a stroke at 79, but was very active until then. She'd eat bread and dripping and salt as a snack! Genetics are important, but so is attitude. Happy, positive people live longer. People with purpose live longer. Keep your mind and body active.
@@terranjohegrado2350 dripping is the fat that drips out of roasting meat. Ideally it has crispy fragments of cooked meat in it. My grandmother kept it in a big jar next to the stove, every time she cooked a roast more dripping went into the jar. It was amazing and by modern standards incredibly unhealthy.
We are much more the same than we are different. Sure, certain groups of people can digest dairy a bit better, for example. Eggs, butter, cheese and meat are not healthy for anyone.
My father in law drank and smoked until he was about 60. Never did any form of exercise. Dementia at the age of 80. Lives on biscuits . Bloke just turned 96. Probably outlive me at this rate 🙄
Now I'm thinking that diet might or might not have a role as big as we think. There are people die young with every diet. There are people live long with every diet. Honestly, I'm tired of people attacking other people's diet choices in defense of their own choice. Cut processed food and chemicals and eat whatever you want to eat. It's probably just as simple as that.
Genetics as well as toxic work environment does play a role in dementia Living in the city with pollution is a killer as well Alcohol.smoking,certain drugs etc Plus over 90 percent of people are deficit in Vitamin D3 and it has been proven that D3 (lack of) can cause dementia as well as MS
Charlotte Gerson would have been a good honorable mention. She spent a lifetime curing cancer and other illnesses with fruits & vegetables and was very active until she passed at 96.
@@frankkoolosko4255 I really hope you aren't so ignorant that you think the intensive, years long Gerson Therapy program (scientifically backed and researched since the 1950's) ....is "just a few fruits and vegetables". But here you are.
@@frankkoolosko4255yes, I was there at her clinic. I saw it with my own eyes. But then as now, cancer cures in American hospitals is BIG business. Making life miserable while radiating and chemically poisoning cancer cells with little success in actually curing cancer. Until they learned to skew the data.
My dad is 88. Growing up they had oatmeal every day, fresh food including wild blackberries, occasional sauerkraut, salmon every Friday. They walked everywhere including to school when he was young. He smoked cigars for a while, but quit. He still drives himself to mass followed by breakfast with his friends almost every day. He has some hearing loss but he denies it, saying that he can hear the grass grow. LOL
@@nickg1134 Bloggers like Chris Kresser and Denise Minger were the ones who blogged negatively about the China study, not respected scientists in the field. I don't think death records are random and anecdotal.
@@nickg1134 It's an appeal to expertise, which is great science and most other things in life. There were many scientists involved with expertise, such as Richard Peto, one of the co-authors. He was co-author of the the 50-year observational study that completely changed our understanding of the effects of smoking. Never again would it be considered healthy because the study showed long-term effects, which only observational studies reveal, and which are crucial to understanding food and smoking, because their effects over 20 or more years can be completely different from their effects over a few years. Which countries (did you mean counties?) showed meat eaters lived longer?
@@delaslight Yes, that is an unfortunate aspect of food science and nutrition. I think the most clear message though is that adding more fiber in your diet will help you greatly. The effect that fiber has on gut health and from there to the rest of the body seems to be very remarkable
I didn't know about him! Perfect timing, because I'm working on a sequel with people I left out of the first one. The funny thing is, I just watched a documentary he produced about the Gersons but didn't connect the dots with his juicing fame. I also didn't know about your channel and now my wife and I are deep-ending on your videos. We gotta know about distilled versus filtered versus tap water. Thanks!
Loved Jack Lalanne. Had the original Jack Lalanne Juicer, still works. He was waaayyy ahead of his time. The influencers that incorporated juicing in their diets lived into their eighties and nineties. Juicers keep on juicing....
@@aracelypadilla4658 i use to eat those jl candy bars thinking they must be healthy but they were very full of sugar ,also remember seeing him on the phil donahue show with pauling about vit c -jack was saying organic was best and pauling was sayin it didn't matter,vit c was vit c
My grandma lived up to 84 years old, no high BP, no sickness. She died 3 months after a bad fall. Her diet was very simple, plain porridge with a bit of pickled veg, normal chinese lunch and dinner of fried vege and meat. She never overeat. She was active until her bad fall.
So her diet was so insufficient that she suffered a catastrophic fall at only 84? My grandmother is currently 88, eats red meat, and still does her own yard work.
@@Manskeeeee Asians live the longest as of any other demographic , and most asians have the same diet...your grandma might be an exception to the rule but not the majority. Red meat is really bad for you
Turned from keto and animal based to almost 90%plant based , not entirely vegan , with minimal dairy , eggs and fish . Lots of beans , vegetables , legumes , fruits and seeds , tolerating 35 grams of fibre , and every single lab test is getting better and better . the astonishing part is my mood , no mood swings and much more calmer .
As I recall Jim Fox had a heart condition and was given months to live when he started running. Running presumably extended his life by many years. It is interesting to discover how people lived and died, but there's so many factors, dietary, environmental, hereditary, etc. We might not know or be able to accurately correlate.😢
When speaking of Seventh-day Adventists in the context of vegetarians living longer, you also have to consider that they don’t smoke and don’t drink. Logically and statistically, it seems that those would be significant factors in determining how long one will live.
Excellent summary (overview). Key point at 16:06: "The closer you get to a plant based diet [i.e. fruits and vegetables] the longer you are going to live." HOW TRUE.
My dad is 98 years old. He has an alcohol beverage and a steak or prime rib every day. He loves garlic bread with lots of butter, salt and garlic on it and vegetables are a quarter cup or less. He loves deserts and deviled eggs. He eats what he likes with out a care in the world. I started Carnivore diet and have lost 40 pounds, doctor is amazed at how healthy my numbers are. I tried a Vegan diet for about 6 months and what I remember is weight gain, higher blood pressure and diabetes. No thanks.
@erniewinn2415 Too much protein and meats are not good for health and kidneys..... could be other things with her health. Nonetheless, eating Whole foods and Plant-based for bodily health will do wonders later in life. Foods you eat today will eventually catch up and bring health or wreak havoc.
Hey Chris, thank you for your overview. A lot of what you had to say has merit, but I’ve always been a believer that genetics plays a huge part in our longevity. Would love to know the longevity of the predecessors, brothers, sister’s mom‘s dad‘s grandparents . Having said that, there most definitely is a common theme thank you !
I think personality is an underrated factor when it comes to longevity. Some people ignore symptoms until it's too late while others are very motivated to take good care of their health. And it probably doesn't help to be very impulsive, especially not in today's world with all the junk food, drugs and media easily available. Community and health care are important factors as well. You can only get "rushed to the hospital" after "passing out on the bathroom floor" and then make a "full recovery" and end up in a chubbyemu video if someone finds you...
@@Viva-Longevity when your time is up it's up. Doesn't matter what you eat. :-) It's just how you want to live your life. In a healthy state or unhealthy eating a bag of chips every night
You got Jack LaLanne's quote incorrect. Jack said "If man made it, don't eat it!", referring to processed, man-made foods. Jack consumed some animal foods like chicken, fish and egg whites, and honey, but the majority of his diet was whole food plant based. Jack LaLanne died at 96 due to pneumonia because he refused to abstain from exercise and physical exertion while sick. Pneumonia in the elderly can be deadly as the aging body has to work harder to fight off the infection. Had Jack simply shelved his ego, refrained from exercise, rested and got medical attention for his pneumonia, I sincerely believe Jack LaLanne would have lived well past 100 years old. I would put Jack LaLanne in the catagory of: "Most Likely to Reach and/or Exceed 100 Years Old" - Interesting Journalism. Nice work overall - Cheers!
It would be an honor; I am in awe of Vegan 2020 - The Film, I just can't believe how great it is. A former associate medical director of the Pritikin Center commented that it would be better to characterize Nathan's diet as Okinawan, so I can make that correction. You can contact me at plantchompers at gmail and I can do whatever you need me to with the episode.
Thanks! I had so much more to tell, like some of the people who came to their healthy diets only did it because they ran into health problems, like Nathan Pritikin. Or because their research led them there, like Colin Campbell. He was raised on a dairy farm and once believed animal protein was the best.
Jack LaLanne's diet books advocate hamburger patties for many meals, so I'm not sure where this presenter came up with the diea that he said "if it comes from a cow, don't eat it"
Thank you so much - with all that different information out there - I visited a nutritional school back then and already saw that there was a lot of diets going on that were not that benefical according to science but were being sold as the golden solution. And so many different approaches. I think people are not solely dying of wrong nutrition, but this way to compare and look at it was interesting to say at least. And a moderate way. I also know that people are different and what is healthy for one person can make another person sick. I speak of experiance. It´s only natural that there is no one solution for all people in health. Peoples bodies react too differently. It´s always been this way. And I don`t think we can change that.
The TH-cam nutrition channels that I’ve seen citing the broadest peer reviewed literature are both channels that advocate for plant heave diets. There’s enough options of what to watch these days, that if they are citing sources in the description, I never return to their channel
As a meat eater, I encourage everyone to have at least 2 or 3 days in the week in which all your meals are veggie based. Eat less meat and small meat portions it's not hard. I don't think veganism is for me but I'm definitely for healthier choices.
Lol...why? nutrienets in plants are NOT bioavailable? Fibre? we can't really digest it, can we? so, why go against NATURE? my life completely changed for the better when i cut most plants ( grains/seeds/fruits) I only eat sporadically stuff that is low on glycemic level and low on oxalates , seasonal, organic and handpicked from wild when possible ( berries, cucumbers, cabbage (fermented), asparagus, watermelon etc. . Grass fed Meat and organs, pasture Eggs, pasture chicken, pasture pork, wild caught fish and shellfish, fermented stuff like raw cheeses or sauerkraut. Raw milk, raw dairy. ALL 100% readily available and full profile nutrients and enzymes and minerals and micronutrients. i repeat : by nature, 100% bioavailable. Not the case for plants, which ALSO contain antinutrients. Veganism is not "for you".... cause it's a highly dangerous and malnurishing diet, it's not for "ANYONE" really....
@@Ν11-φ9ρ i can deff see this working very very well. I went on a vegan diet for over 2 years and started looking extremely ill, couldn’t gain any weight and my stomach would hurt so much I could barely walk. I notice how some people flourish on a vegan or vegetarian diet and some do not. I thought I was defective. I feel like there’s a possibility of blood type somehow playing into it but maybe that’s a stretch. Thank you for your comment.
Keep eating high amounts of plant-based superfoods fruits and vegetables and sweet potatoes, beans, etc and just eat less of the red meat and get a little bit more protein from vegetables and try and make fish and eggs and little bit of chicken your sources of meat and just every once in awhile have a little bit of red meat. That's what the Japanese do and that's also similar to the Mediterranean diet and they have way less obesity and way less disease than we do in the Western countries
@@alani6815 They don't flourish for long, and not without taking supplements, or cheating, or having some kind of defiency causoing some kind of health issue ...lol Fish and eggs alone, when wild caught and of pasture quality, are absolute nature Superfoods.You could just THRIVE on these 2 alone! It's what saves vegetarians. With the vegan diet you're devoid of 50 essential nutrients, you're prone to eat loads, snack loads, raise your insulin levels more, and the body is not getting the full/complete profile of the proteins proteins. Nutrients are poorly absorbed cause hindered by Toxins, oxallates, antinutrients, blocking absortion paths AND hormone production paths. Plant nutrient are not reckognised by the human body, giving poor absorbtion rates as humans struggle to convert the plant form of nutrients, into something that can be absorbed, unlike Animal nutrition, which, by nature, is immediately very welcomed by your body : Nature made animal nutrition the only 100% Bioavailable form of nutrtion for us humans. Readily available and easyly absorbable. So, no wonder u felt like that when you were vegan. The bigger storage of animal nutrtion in your fat or bone tissue ....the longer chance of surving the vegan you'll have. As your body, when deprived of nutrients will be forced to extract it from ..itself. Take care anyhow, and enjoy foods to satiation ( not bloating) and enjoy food for what it is, nutrition, and not fashion or time killing, or comfort.
@@JJ38255 Red meat does not cause obesity? or anything else? You're such a hype believer! The resaon Japan and S.korea and places like Sardinia in Italy have high life expectancy and low heart related diseases is NOT because they eat beans, sweet potatoes and superfood fruits instead of Red meat. LOL The reason is purely because of the high amount of/ AND the high quality of the Animal Nutrtion they eat ( freshly caught, and eaten raw, and with high amounts of good Fat), and cause the diet is void of sugar and processed garbage and refined carbs, real culprits of the diseases when combined with rest of diet. Infact, Red Meat Is Superfood itself. Actually, in Japan and South Korea, Beef and other meats are very popular, eaten in high amounts, same thing goes for Italy. I'm Italian.... so i should know. Beef, Lamb, pork, and high ammounts of freshly hunted Game meat, and high ammounts of fresh Fish. And very little carbs, and very little but only local and seasonal vegs. Fermented foods such as quality fermented raw red meats, and raw cheeses and fermented vegs and drinks are to blame for the INCREASE in health. Quality Animal Nutrtion with all its good Fat brings satiation, and therefore less eating/ snacking culure. Less insulin, less diseases. Even the alchool they drink, in moderation, is highly distilled and therefore much better for you.
I love the video and noticed many of the comments mention grandparents and farming. My grandmother just passed away at 104. Her childhood was during the Great Depression and her teenage years during the Dust Bowl. Her parents were homesteaders in Western Kansas, and during her final years, I was surprised to hear her mention that, although her family raised cattle and pigs ("shoats"), they never had meat as the main meal. It was always an ingredient, never the main event and most of the meals were salads from the garden and a soup, stew or casserole with a bit of meat thrown in. Why only a bit of meat??? Because they knew firsthand the process involved in raising, slaughtering, and curing any type of animal protein, so they had reverence for it. When she was 102 and still thriving, I asked her why she thinks she lived for so long. She said one word, "temperance." I had to look the word up, but basically, it means moderation. I never remember her overindulging. She'd have dessert, but only a little. Thanksgiving, a well rounded plate, but never seconds. Alcohol, maybe a sip on two or special occasions. And temperance with her thoughts as well. Never opinionated, loud, or garrulous Instead, she was typically sitting quietly in the background, listening, observing, learning. As for me, I went vegan 7 years ago for lupus and it has helped me greatly on levels: mind, body, spirit. I love the channel. Thank you Chris, for putting your heart and soul into it!
I read a book about nutrition and longevity recently, Peter Attia Outlive The Science and Art of Longevity. The conclusions as I recall them were similar to the people on the right. But what stuck in my head was that exercise was more important than diet. He particularly stressed getting VO2 max up, and also retaining muscle mass, because both were correlated with not only lifespan, but also health span. From memory, so I could just be remembering my biases of what he wrote.
You seem pretty decent. It is hard to predict anything. Even RCT in the hundreds pointing twds LDL do not tell the whole story. There are ppl, who have very low LDL and die from CHD. And there are ppl, who have very high LDL and get very old. It is only a tendency. So it seems not plausibel to proof, if excercise is the "best". I am in the fraction (tiny I guess), that claims, it is the amount of calories and if you get overweight (and not so much what you consume), that is the most influencial factor (of being healty and maybe to live "longer"). It is some kind of gut feeling involved to come to this conclusion...
@@clownbackpainrick6581 I think he would agree with you that there is a variance among people. What he is talking about is statistical: If you take a random group of people, then the more fit are less likely to die than the less fit. Everyone has an anecdote about someone who drank like a fish, or smoked like a steam engine, yet lived a long, healthy life. They are an exception though, because in general such people will die young. Obesity is an almost certain sign of low VO2 max. And, it contributes to most of the worst killers, since it causes inflammation. Severe obesity can be likened to a low grade auto immune disease. So, you are just saying something similar to what he says in a different way. Sure, some obese people will live long, healthy lives, but in general, they will die young. A quote from the book about the importance of VO2 max. This number is not just relevant to athletes; it turns out to be highly correlated with longevity. A 2018 study in JAMA that followed more than 120,000 people found that higher VO2 max (measured via a treadmill test) was associated with lower mortality across the board. The fittest people had the lowest mortality rates-by a surprising margin. Consider this: A person who smokes has a 40 percent greater risk of all-cause mortality (that is, risk of dying at any moment) than someone who does not smoke, representing a hazard ratio or (HR) of 1.40. This study found that someone of below-average VO2 max for their age and sex (that is, between the 25th and 50th percentiles) is at double the risk of all-cause mortality compared to someone in the top quartile (75th to 97.6th percentiles). Thus, poor cardiorespiratory fitness carries a greater relative risk of death than smoking. That’s only the beginning. Someone in the bottom quartile of VO2 max for their age group (i.e., the least fit 25 percent) is nearly four times likelier to die than someone in the top quartile-and five times likelier to die than a person with elite-level (top 2.3 percent) VO2 max. That’s stunning. These benefits are not limited to the very fittest people either; even just climbing from the bottom 25 percent into the 25th to 50th percentile (e.g., least fit to below average) means you have cut your risk of death nearly in half, according to this study. These results were confirmed by a much larger and more recent study, published in 2022 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, looking at data from 750,000 US veterans ages thirty to ninety-five (see figure 9). This was a completely different population that encompassed both sexes and all races, yet the researchers found a nearly identical result: someone in the least fit 20 percent has a 4.09 times greater risk of dying than a person in the top 2 percent of their age and sex category. Even someone of moderate fitness (40th to 60th percentile) is still at more than double the risk of all-cause mortality than the fittest group, this study found. “Being unfit carried a greater risk than any of the cardiac risk factors examined,” the authors concluded.
@@clownbackpainrick6581 VO2 max is hard to measure for an individual, but there is another measure that is pretty straightforward, and has a correlation with VO2 max: Heart rate recovery time. A brief description is the amount of time it takes for your heart rate to return to normal from your maximum heart rate. A simple way to do it is to perform HIIT to hit your maximum heart rate, then measure your heart rate at one minute intervals until it is normal. The most important number is the number after the first minute. Suppose your max heart rate is 155 beats per minute. After 1 minute, your heart rate is at 120. Then you have a drop of 35. The higher this number is, the fitter you are. Of course, if you want the gold standard, it is necessary to do the treadmill VO2 max test. But this is quick and easy to do, and gives a good approximate measure.
Jim fix' dad died of a heart attack at the age of 40 caused in part by a congenital heart defect that was passed to his son jim.Jims running may have given him a few more years than dad.His book in the 70s,The complete book of running along with Sylvester Stallones movie Rocky inspired me and my brother to run as kids and young adults.Rest in peace Jim!✌
It should be noted that in most relavent studies running only appears to be beneficial up to about 45 minutes of running a day, and can increase your risk of dying from heart problems if you run much more than that.
@@garethbaus5471 That's true. Running for too long of a time causes the body to begin producing cortisol in large amounts, which mimics stress. This is very hard on the heart. Long-distance runners have a pretty high heart disease rate.
This channel doesnt do a lot of research , they just pick things and do some general reading on it, confirms some biases and discard relevant nuances. Then dresses it up to appeal to the modern viewer.
As a former sub-elite runner with a high metabolism, I always thought that exercise offset a poor diet. A LOT of people have this mindset that they can out-exercise a bad diet or that exercise allows them to eat a regular diet. It’s not working, and they’re not immunized against the ravages of “eating like an average American.”
No mention of the fact that Nathan Pritikin committed suicide as a result of the unbearable pain of leukemia ....BUT that he was fully active until a few weeks before death AND upon autopsy his arteries were found to be free of any signs of heart disease, as “soft and pliable as a teenager"
@@wolfgangkranek376 not every vegan makes the decision because of "animal cruelty". That's like saying every person in the gym is there to be a professional body builder.
Ancel Keyes hid the results of the Minnesota Diet Study carried out by his department between 1968 and 1972. This was the largest controlled nutrition study involving over 9000 inmates of mental institutions who diet, medication and health could be modified in detail. It compared his version of a Mediterranean diet based on US produced seed oils hydrogenated to produce trans fats plus US grains and sugar that later became the basis of the US Nutritional Guidelines that where spread around the globe and are accepted to be the cause of metabolic disorder obesity, diabetes 2, heart disease, cancer, arthritis and dementia. This trial gave the wrong results disproving his claims so was not published in full. When it was dug up and analyzed and published by the BMJ in 2012 it showed that his diet caused death from a range of causes whereas the traditional diet based on saturated fat and whole foods did not and had a lower all cause mortality. That Keyes fiddled his data is easy to prove by looking at that from the 20 countries in his study from which he selected the seven to make his case. As one living in the Mediterranean I can say his Mediterranean diet is not common here where there are as many different diets as countries plus regional differences within countries.
He also used steroids and was single % body fat year round. Also the stress from the intense sttength protocols like gvt should be considered. These thing usually lead to heart enlargement and left ventricle atrophy.
Charles himself didn't even eat low carb and was never opposed to high carbs. He believed that people should according to their genes. Some can handle more and some can handle less. He has always said that if you want to lose weight then cut the carbs and when you lose weight you can increase the carbs.
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Adele Davis was my hero in the early 1970's. The greatest thing she did for me was to inspire me to live a healthy lifestyle. Eventually, in my 40's I turned to vegetarianism and thence to veganism. So despite her recommendations, she was the springboard and I will be forever grateful to her.
I like how mention of Linus Pauling here is only about his relevant nutritional work when he’s simultaneously one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.
I saw the cat scan of a woman who had been on the Atkins diet since the 80’s and was now in her seventies , her organs were clearly healthy with just the correct amount of visceral fat and perfect amount of sub cutaneous fat. Her muscles were self evidently healthy also. A cat scan of a vegan was a huge surprise with vast amounts of visceral fat almost obliterating the organs and musculature.
Some vegans, e.g. My son, get most of their calories from carbs: wheat, rice, potatoes. This guarantees visceral fat. Is meat the enemy? I'm not convinced. Are grains the enemy? In large quantities, yes. Of course public enemy #1 is the combination of vegetable oil and sugar. This guarantees obesity, heart disease and cancer.
This is shocking. I used to be pretty dogmatic in my views when it came to carnivore and keto, as that’s where my health journey first started. I was able to get myself back to a baseline in my health and I am now more functional as a human after implementing more meat in my diet alongside intermittent fasting. With the new research showing the benefits of the gut microbiome, that opened a whole new perspective on the way I eat. One side would say eating carnivore would help get rid of digestive issues as your microbiome will reset itself and naturally come back to a degree. But the other side would say eating lots of plants and a variety of them would provide the biggest amount of beneficial bacteria for your gut bugs to feed off of, providing beneficial effects for you. I am now in a point in my journey where I am still adverse to going full plant based, but I’ve incorporated a variety of veggies and fruits in my diet and have seen benefits as a whole. I do believe the mass production of meat is not sustainable and a harm to both the animals and humans that eat them. Especially when they are kept in small areas and force fed a diet that they weren’t evolved to eat, which is grass and not seeds and grains. I do believe that eating a proper amount (whatever that truly may be for one person) of meat that is from wild grazing animals will provide the best quality of nutrition for us as humans. That’s why I can’t wait to go hunting one day and try some deer. But don’t fear! I’ll be looking around for some wild growing crops as well. Might come across some wild shrooms🥴 As time goes on, my views will continue to change.
Best diet is too practice daily fasting. Everything we eat is toxic and bad because producers are trying to cut costs and the environment we live in this modern era is bad. As for what to eat whole foods are the best: Red meat, eggs, dairy, ground provisions, fish, butter, fruits, veggies
I loved the interview where he debunked Arnies Mr America “ It’s better than sex” commentary. Jack was honest saying how if he didn’t exercise for a few days he felt lousy. I think it was on the Phil Donahue Show.
Thank you so much, Chris, for all the effort you put into showing us how useful and healthy a plant based diet is, based on so much scientific data and studies... I'm sure you have a significant influence on the whole world and humanity's future that leads into a more positive direction! ❤
Awesome research and great episode! Years ago, I wondered the same thing myself but didn't have the time to explore. You've done that and made it fun to watch too.
Or you could just realise that we're not carnivores and even natural omnivores, when you look at carnivore bodies and omnivore bodies and OUR body; which is the body of a frugal undoubtedly
I know that my mainly vegetarian diet didn't work for my iron levels and I couldn't seem to get them higher without meat. Eating a little meat and mainly vegetables/fruit works really well for me.
Good ol' Jack LaLanne....if you pull up some of his old shows on youtube....AMAZING! And Dr. Wareham my hero...I take my b-12 every week...I"ve been plant-strong since 2010 .. at 63 I feel like I'm 33.
That final word from Professor Campbell sums up what appears indisputable: "The closer we get to a plant-based diet, the healthier we are going to be".
Thanks for the video, Chris! My husband and I enjoy your very informative, humorous, and balanced presentations. We appreciate all the work that you put into your channel!
I was wondering why Dr. T Colin Campbell wasn't mentioned, the movie "Forks Over Knives" influenced me to go vegan almost 6yrs ago. His collaboration on that movie with Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn played a large part in my conversion, and I was a hard-cored carnivore, for real.
This makes more sense and carries more justification than any video I've ever seen on the subject! There are scores of famous dietitians past and present, he's hand selects a couple dozen. I'd like to see one of the fat and protein influencers pick their own and show what their spread of faces looks like across the age spectrum.
I'm still trying to figure out how my Grandfather who heavily smoked and heavily drank all his life, since he was 15 years old, and also ate whatever he wanted (lots of steak) for all of his life, lived until well in to his 90's.
Like Winston Churchill! Usually those lucky people end up with ailments like gout, though, even though they live long. Was that the case with your grandfather?
A very very small portion of people are able to do what your grandfather has done. The majority of people are suffering chronic illness is because of the poor eating habits.
Go ahead, smoke and drink, nobody says you can't. "Do you feel lucky, Punk" haha..( aside- I can't believe how polar, black/white, either/or, left/right...binary! this world has become. The known universe now in the palm of our hands, yet cretinism is the new pandemic...) 🤪
Have whatever you want in moderation and control stress at any cost. Do whatever it takes and be happy outside and inside. Sure you will godown smiling after atleast 80+years.❤
"Proteins, carbs, and fats" is an outdated paradigm, as is counting calories. Newer paradigms such as oxidants/antioxidants, raw/cooked, and vitamins/minerals/super nutrients/nutriceuticals, are more useful in describing the benefits possible through diet. Truth is every food has a good and a bad side to it. The most successful diet so far has been the "well balanced diet" which also avoids smoking/alcohol.
I understand why you did this, but I think focusing on the date of death is too narrow. What we want is a good life. The duration is less important. Great health means you can do activities in old age, not that you will become immortal.
Yeah, BUT the Mediterranean diet and vegan guys were working as surgeons and mowing their lawns into their 90's, while the high fat, low carbers were long dead.
Its interesting how i have many grandparents who are still alive aged around a hundred and they all follow so simple meal plans, it almost seams like overcomplicating diet is not ideal.
@@depressedcarrot4134Not really. Unprocessed food is available at every supermarket. It's called vegetables, fruits, beans, whole grains, nuts, seeds and mushrooms.
Vegetarianism which I've done for more than 20 yrs of which 4 years vegan, were the worst years of my life. My physical health deteriorated, I got mental issues and my teeth and root canals rotted away from eating carbs and seed oils. If I would've continued this diet I would be a wreck of a human being. My best years were when I went on an animal based diet. Raw milk, grass fed beef, pasture raised pork and chicken, eggs and fish. I can't afford this anymore, but I still eat as much animal based foods as possible, and I am in good health. A lot of these health gurus that died young probably didn't die of what they ate but they died of excessive training. Excessive endurance or strength training is not good for longevity, and the more and the harder you train, the more you need to sleep and rest for recovery, especially when you're past 30 years old.
Very very true. Goatis’ made a video about this on YT that all excercise ages you and is stress on the body. It makes sense when you look at athletes at the start of their career and their peak they look really bad and worn out. Like if you look at bolt when he started in 07 he looked vibrant at the end of his career in 2017 he looked worn out, burnt and overtrained
@@Notifications485 Khabib Nurmagomedov, the famous UFC champion, said that when you train like that and you want to stay healthy, your life revolves around eating, training and above all, sleeping.
@@marcelklein3879 Well, training like an athlete is unhealthy. Plus all these pro athlete abuse steroids and all sorts of PEDs for recovery and to compete in their sport. I personally believe excercise done in moderation is healthy. I’m a very tall man I’m 6’5 ever since j started strength training I can walk properly and I don’t have back pains anymore. But being a pro athlete is too stressful for the body
Very compelling video, I was vegetarian for about 40 years and felt great even beyond great, then I got drawn into veganism and the raw food movement, and my health took a dive. So then I heard about the carnivore diet I at first dismissed it out right as ridicules. But as time went by it slowly changed my mind about healthy foods, and I went full on into the carnivore diet for a year to give it a fair trial, and at first I felt great and my skin even looked younger. But slow I began to feel weaker and was tied all the time and I gained weight, a lot of weight about 30 kgs. So I switched to the Ketogenic diet because I still had all the theories about fat being healthy and sugar and carbs being the cause of heart disease. On the Ketogenic diet I did start to feel much better, but still I could not lose the extra weight I have gained from being on the carnivore diet, unless I do intensive exercise and then if I stop exercising the weight comes straight back. I came across your channel just this week and at first I dismissed you as the typical vegan pumping your vegan religion. But this video has given me pause for thought, because in the end it’s how long you live that is the proof. So I guess you have convinced me to go back to my original vegetarian diet and we will see what happens. But this time I think I will back the diet up with some blood tests, because you could be cherry-picking the data to fit your narrative whether that’s intentional or unintentionally. But I will give the vegetarian diet a fair trial, and really thanks for making this video because its important to scrutinize the lives of diet influencers if we are to come to a fuller understanding of which diet is the heathiest.
So glad I discovered this video, and your channel! If you ever decide to do a follow-up (or indeed any other video on historical nutrition influencers), you *must* bring up Scott & Helen Nearing -- two nearly lifelong vegetarians who wrote books on healthful living that were hugely influential. When Scott turned 100 he decided that it was time to die, so he stopped eating. Helen lived to be 91 when she died in a car accident.
There is a flaw in the Ancil Keys study reported on this podcast. Keys used a 7 country study which was found to be a 22 country study and he cherry picked the data to get results he wanted.
It appears that all went to other world at their written time. My maternal grandfather died approximately at 120 years of age of lung disease he was smoker, ate whole wheat bread, vegetables, tea, lassi (we get it shaking yogurt with water and skimm off butter) and less milk. HE walked a lot and was stress free.
Walked a lot and was stress free, lived in a beautiful area i guess. That's the key to health, environment, coupled with perfect diet, allowing some flesh or cooked food sometimes
This is definitely a worthwhile topic, though i feel, based on my family, that genetics also plays a large part. My oldest brother is only 84 and the baby of the family will be 77 this year, but we're getting up there. We're all generally physically and mentally healthy while having gone through some health challenges, and physically active (except the youngest, who's decided to let himself get fat). Will any of us reach 100? Studies of super-centenarians show they're not typically vegetarians, with many researchers feeling it's mostly about genes. But for those of us without the right genes, it may be (appears to be) that a good diet, exercise, etc makes the difference in reaching our full age potential. I aim to follow the science with respect to my own physiology and experience. I keep experimenting, using test results, energy, mental strength and flexibility, to gauge the results of the things i try. High protein (mostly fish, poultry, dairy, eggs, with the very occasional red meat), high non-saturated fat, low carb (keeps my glucose down and i'm currently losing weight after a multi-month family-visiting vacation), lots of vitamins and supplements. Cholesterol about 200, though i hit 170's the last couple of months, glucose in the 80's and 90's (i've previously been diagnosed as hyperglycemic), blood pressure now in the 120's-130's over 60's or 70's, exercising, regular fasting, meditating, lots of sleep, and 70-100 grams of fiber daily. Doing what i can. Both parents died just before 80 due to the effects of strokes, so that's been an impetus, though i was interested in health long before that happened. We'll see.
So now I want to know how you get to that level of fibre content, I struggle to get to half that and with low-carb it's tough. Suggestions gratefully accepted.
Your diet will make you die younger. Actually, all the Blue Zones, which have the highest number of centenarians, ALL have predominantly vegetarian diets : They eat a lot of beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, pumpkin, and PREDOMINANTLY leafy green vegetables as their staple food.
Our grandparents ate off the land n walked a lot...this is an entirely different world full of toxins and overdoing work, excessive stress, plastics, unnecessary surgeries, HEAVY PHARMACEUTICAL reliance, excessive stress inducing exercise... there's no telling what could be the cause of someone's death today.
So I have a well balanced diet with a mix of steamed vegetables making up the bulk of the evening meal and some form of protein making up the rest, lunch is a sandwich with tomato, spinach and about 25g of meat and thinly spread with margarine. Breakfast was always a high fibre multi-grain cereal or rolled oats when I had it. After my heart attack at around 60 I switched to butter and time I guess will tell whether helps. All I know is I find margarine smells foul and if I still get a heart attack then I'd rather go out enjoying my meals.
@@mayhu3282 you obviously don't cook or prepare meals. If you make sandwiches you need something to waterproof the bread lest liquids from the tomatoes or roasted capsicums make it all soggy. It becomes especially important when you make them the night before as I do. Another thing fresh butter offers is a lovely taste, unlike margarine. How does the saying go? If you do x & y and never do z you'll live to be 100, but you'll also wish you didn't.
The Ancel Keys study, also known as the Seven Countries Study, has been criticized for potential biases in its design and analysis. Some of the reasons why it is considered biased are: 1. Cherry-picking data: Ancel Keys selected data from seven countries that supported his hypothesis that dietary fat intake is associated with heart disease. This selective approach may have skewed the results and limited the generalizability of the findings. 2. Exclusion of data: The study excluded data from countries that did not fit the hypothesis, which could have led to an overestimation of the association between fat intake and heart disease. 3. Lack of control for confounding factors: The study failed to adequately control for other factors that could influence heart disease risk, such as smoking, physical activity, and socioeconomic status. This lack of control makes it difficult to isolate the specific effect of dietary fat intake. 4. Incomplete dietary assessment: The study relied on food frequency questionnaires, which are prone to recall bias and may not accurately capture participants' actual dietary intake. This could have introduced measurement errors and affected the study results. 5. Limited sample size: The study had a relatively small sample size, which reduces the statistical power and may limit the generalizability of the findings. 6. Publication bias: There is evidence to suggest that the Ancel Keys study was selectively published, with positive findings being emphasized while negative findings were downplayed. This publication bias can distort the overall picture of the research findings. It is important to note that while the study has been criticized for these biases, it also contributed to the understanding of the relationship between diet and heart disease. Subsequent research has provided more comprehensive and nuanced evidence in this field.
Another influencer is the naturopath and nutritionist David Getoff, vice-president of the Price-Pottenger group. He was a Weston A. Price fan but it appears he probably wasn't using FERMENTED cod liver oil at the time of his passing away, because he wrote that he had the best results with lemon-flavored Carlson brand cod liver oil. He passed away of acute myeloid leukemia at age 70 on Oct 30 2022.
I think genetics is something to look at, too. I wish you could provide a spreadsheet of all these "influencers"! However, on my own I've been making a list of some of these influencers and looking up their spouses and parents ages to account for genetics. For example, Fred Kummerow, Henry Blackburn, and Jack Lalanne all had 1 or 2 parents who lived into their 90's, so they had some longevity genes. But I'm incredibly impressed by Ancel Keys, Bonnie Prudden, Linus Pauling, Jean Nidetch, John Harvey Kellogg, and Upton Sinclair who all lived much longer than their parents. Thanks for doing this! I'm not a vegetarian but it sure convinces me to eat more veggies!
Both my grandparents made it into their late 90s. Neither walked with a cane or wore glasses. They started out life on a farm before moving to a city environment in middle age back in the 1950s. They ate entirely farm raised animal protein but it was not a fixture at every meal and the portions were small because there were near 20 people to cook for between 13 kids and the adults family members. The staple food was beans and lentils for protein at every meal. Then vegetables, a very diverse variety of fruits from avocado to passion fruit and farm raised eggs with dairy mostly limited to one variety of what I think was a low fat cheese similar to mozzarella. Very little refined wheat products. Regular consumption coffee and what would probably qualify as organic chocolate. When they later moved to the city they were abruptly exposed to a great deal of diesel and gas engine contamination before the days of regulation of emissions. I remember visiting there in the 1970s and developing asthma which went away when I returned home to a more suburban environment. They both developed dementia which I think was caused by the sudden drop off in clean air triggering inflammatory conditions in their brains. Inflammation seems to be the common denominator in high fat animal foods and environmental contamination. Which is in my view a major support for remote work and spreading human activity away from high concentrations of vehicle emissions and factory animal meats raised in close quarters.
But as he said he smoked the healthy way by not inhaling the cigar, he liked whiskey but was never drunk, and he ate fish, milk and soup, but also was always slim and fit and spent time outdoors and had a good attitude always ready for a laugh.
If you have to take a pill to maintain your B12 levels what does that tell you about your diet? (It's not sustainable or natural.) The good news is you don't need much animal products to maintain it. Ad you don't need to fry anything. Focus on how you're cooking something as much as what you're consuming. In short: Eat only as much as you really need. Look at how so many people lived after being in a state of deprivation like being in a prison camp. You'll be startled how it seems to benefit our longevity. Water fasting is your very dear friend. Aim for 40 days eventually or whenever you get a sudden massive hunger. It's a little different for each of us. At that point your body is looking for any sources of calories it can use for energy. After your fat is used up it looks for anything else. A tumor is one of those sources of energy. This only happens around day 40 for most people. You'll notice it when it happens. It's a hunger that will floor you. You'd have to be unconscious to miss it. That's when you resume eating.
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Aside from diet, I think a major factor that a lot underestimate today is stress, and following that - sleep, fresh air/being out in sunlight, etc
I think that's a really smart observation. Stress will get you no matter what you eat but everyone has stress so hopefully eating healthy helps the body deal with the consequences of having stress. Also, I think it's a balance so aside from eating healthy, I think you also have to have some focus on exercise and of course we always neglect our spiritual health too which is the trifecta. Body, mind, spirit.
I agree. I spent a good deal of my live in a high anxiety state. Now that all those causes of anxiety are out of my life ( mostly dead) I have, at 70, finally been able to start to manage my weight and sleep and enjoy life.
And socializing
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That is undoubtedly true, but in terms of diet, it is still preferable to follow a Mediterranean diet, which will provide you with a sufficient amount of vitamins, minerals, and other essential elements to help your brain and hormones guide you to a less stressful future.
My gorgeous grandma lived until 104 and a half. She ate everything in moderation and lived a very active life. She drove until she was 103 and lived on her own and did her own yard work and house cleaning. She was actively serving others her whole life. Her life was based on Joy and service , that is how I'm trying to live my life now❤
Did she go vegan? If not, why did she lack compassion for sentient beings? Nice story, though.
That is an excellent way of looking at life. Every individual is different and I don't think there's a perfect diet for every individual. We all know the type of food we need to stay away from. Eating meat is perfectly fine just like eating vegetables is as well is as well. Don't let a guy with a baseball cap and a blue sweater on the internet tell you some hand-picked facts about this and that. Funny he did not mention Don Gorske who is 70. Shirley others who would do that would have died long time ago. Eating everything in moderation is a perfect key like you said.
@@mattsapero1896what part of she ate everything did you not understand my Ukrainian friend?
What does "she ate everything in moderation" mean?
How hard is this? Everything. In. Moderation. Not exactly rocket science.
I ate a high-protein diet, that was animal based, for 20 years before being diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. Virtually everything I ate was commercially prepared as I was working long hours, 7 days a week. When I learned I had cancer, I did a 180 degree turn and started cooking again and focused on the Mediterranean diet. Thirty years later, I'm still alive and kicking and eating the Mediterranean diet. I rarely eat meat, poultry, or fish, take lots of supplements, fast, exercise, and greatly enjoy life. I still have active cancer but my lifestyle has minimized its affect on my body (it is throughout my body but tumor sizes have been held in check). I don't know how much longer I can keep this up, as I'm 79, but I hoping to make it to 120+ lol.
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God Bless. I needed to read this today.
You GO girl !
How bloody old must one be to finally get classed as a 'woman' not 'girl'?
Lmao you have cancer because you’re a vegan slave
I think that stress management is #1, diet being a close #2. Simply because we have so many centenarians who are chronic smokers and wine-lovers with a sweet tooth. Many of them are sedentary and have mediocre diets. But the thing that unites all centenarians is a stress-free mindset.
I must disagree. The science simply does not support this notion. The avoidance of stress can be a cop-out, ie "I drink to relieve my stress" or "Eating junk food relaxes me". I worked in long-term care and many, many elderly people had been through war. But they made it into their eighties and nineties by staying slender and active, and eating sensibly.
@@paulmaxwell8851 First of all, your personal opinion is not "science". The fact that you know people who went through war but lived to their eighties means nothing. It's not what they've been through but how they dealt with it that matters. I based my view on the centenarians, some of whom were passionate wine/chocolate lovers, chronic smokers, people who never went to the gym, tragically lost loved ones, overcame illnesses etc. but the only thing that unites them ALL is that they never stressed about anything. Look up the blue zones and investigate for yourself.
How would you know that somebody never stressed about anything ? Pretty sure most people are rather relaxed at 05 or 99 or 100+, but does not say anything about their earlier life. Living through war for instance, is hardly possible without stress.@@valerio226
They had better quality food for most of their lives, I think that matter much more than what exactly the food is.
lol your examples are just an anecdotal as the person you're slamming for not using science@@valerio226
My Grandfather lived to nearly 99 and he ate tons of saturated fat and had something sweet with every meal. I asked him one time what he attributed his long life to and he said don’t stop moving. He walked twice a day for 2-5 miles. I honestly think genetics is the number one reason for longevity. My Mom lived to 90 and she was healthy. She ate everything. On my Dads side they all died in their 40’s and 50’s.
Genetics?
What we do with our lives plays the biggest role.
Smoke, drink, drugs, unhealthy diets will result in problems.
But a perfectly healthy 20 year old can drop dead from a heart attack.
Apparently we have been seeing a rise in those young suddenly de ad.
@@rdallas81I recommend you rethink your comment.
A perfectly healthy person cannot drop dead of a heart attack. Those 2 concepts are diametric opposites.
There can be a huge difference between a person who appears to be perfectly healthy, and one who is. Dying of a heart attack is the opposite of being perfectly healthy.
@@rdallas81 Obesity epidemic and athletes using steroids injects and injects of horse testosterone and who knows what else might contribute to that.
@@hydrolito Man, people will try just about anything-
Too many chemicals in everything.
Drugs everywhere, PFAS, and plastic particles floating in the air we breath, many places called superfund sites in the USA that are toxic but people drink the water-
@@hydrolito obesity is multifaceted problem because it's based on hormones particularly which is affected by everything in out polluted environment.
People getting cancer at rates that are scary and at younger and younger ages-
My great-grandfather smoked cigarettes and chewed tobacco all of his adult life. He lived to age 95 and lived by himself until age 93. Now, I'm not advocating these habits, but he was a farmer and grew his own food. He grew a large vegetable garden, had a fruit orchard, raised beef cattle and hogs, had a dairy herd, and raised chickens. He canned his veggies and fruit for consumption during the winter months. He cured hams, shoulders, bacon, and made his own sausage. When he was a young man he worked the fields with a team of horses and mules. He was still a tall, stout man when he had a stroke at age 93. I don't think he ever ate at a restaurant, certainly never ate fast food or any type of processed foods, no TV dinners, he never owned a microwave. He was still physically active until he had a stroke at 93.
My great grandfather same. Except lived in the city ate nothing much more than white bread, dripping, butter, tea and the occasional lambs brains.
That was the far far distant past. Billions more are alive now and they all pollute. All food was organic then, now its GMO. Also 99% of all meat is raised in factory farms, shot full of growth hormones, antibiotics and live a live of misery. Eat like your ancestors now? You can't. That world is long gone. Get smart and listen to the science or die dreaming of your GreatGramps. 100% whole food plant-based is better for you, our environment and the animal victims.
Nobody cares. We go vegan for the rights of the animals.
@@mattsapero1896
Not everyone goes vegan for the sake of the animals. I don't 😁 😄😄
@@mattsapero1896 What about the rights of humans.
My grandparents and great grandmother lived a long time, my great grandmother died at 102 after a fall. The biggest thing is they did not eat processed foods back then, They ate a high fat diet and lots of vegetables as well, they even saved their bacon grease and animal fats to cook with. Processed foods are full of chemicals now and our vegetable's and fruits are full of dangerous pesticides that are killing us. Many other countries have banned many food items that are sold in our stores, that should tell you something. The USDA and FDA pass these poisons as safe as long as the company pays them enough to do so.
@luciedagesse53, Agreed. Yet on average we live longer. Go figure. 💁
This is an anecdote, nothing more.
On my father’s side, my great grandmother dipped snuff, didn’t drink alcohol, was sedentary, ate an egg every day, and wasn’t focused on her diet. She passed way in the prime of her life at age 102. She believed that we have a “limited number number of steps” in our lives. On my mother’s side, my great aunt smoked cigarettes everyday all day, drank alcohol, baked pies (and ate them) each week, had a sedentary life, and wasn’t concerned about diet. Doctors put her on the nicotine patch at 90 years old and told her to quit cigarettes. She lived to 93. My grandmother (her sister) lived to 95. She didn’t use tobacco, didn’t drink alcohol, was sedentary, and didn’t concern herself with diet. The remarkable thing about these three women is how little they had in common. Perhaps they were just exceptions to the rules that diet and lifestyle matter in longevity. I believe that diet and lifestyle have a bigger influence on the quality of your life, but mean much less when it comes to predicting longevity. There are worse things than dying young; namely, a long life with chronic disease that is influenced by choices in food, beverage and lifestyle.
Yes, I agree. At best this video is presenting anecdotal evidence. There is also a lot of anecdotal and empirical evidence for a 100% carnivore diet being good for health and longevity, reversing chronic diseases and such. So... who's right?
Vegan and vegetarian diets might look like the quick, easy and ethical solution to health, but things aren't that easy.
@@mq1995 The empirical evidence in many countries, including those with a culinary heritage that dates back much further than the West, such as India, suggests that a primarily vegetarian diet is better for health and longevity. The 100% carnivore diet has never existed--it is a modern hallucination. @murrayburke7746 is making a different point
Heredity is a factor in longevity, however, most people will benefit greatly from a plant based diet. Then of course, the animals will benefit from not being slaughtered and the planet will benefit from less greenhouse gasses and less land being destroyed for grazing, then humanity will benefit from the greater availability of water not being used for massive cattle production and from the greater availability of fruits, vegetables, grains, etc. In fact we can feed the world if we go plant based.
Interesting anecdotes.
@@mq1995 people should consider trying different approaches to eating, have blood work done and see what Mother Nature has to say. On the main plant based will probably win but not for everyone. This question has become far too tribal. Treat yourself like the organism it is and see what works. Opinions have no place in this discussion, but science does.
My grandfather made it to 101 and his diet was mostly potatoes, cabbage and and other vegetables from his garden.
Mine made it to 96 and he ate tons of spinach, beets, kale, squash, etc nearly every day from his garden, and started the day with a bowl of cereal piled with in-season fruit.
He ate meat and dairy too, but reduced his red meat intake and sought out low fat dairy at the suggestion of his doctor in his 60's. He cooked his veggies in water and seasoning and made it the majority of his plate, and often had beans as the main event.He used sweet&low in his coffee every day but no cream. He had a small portion of dessert nearly every day, and didn't really snack. He went to the doctor regularly for checkups, and did what they said.
He kept up with his outdoor container garden, his plot garden down the street, and golf. He went for a walk every day. He fixed all of the things in his house as they broke- even if it was with duck tape. Every single day he showered and got dressed and kept his keys and wallet in his pocket, ready to go. He kept his mind sharp with sudoku over coffee and regularly went to symphony performances, church, and other events like going to the pumpkin patch or fireworks... up until the last month of his life.
He died because he refused to accept help with showers and bathroom, bc he wasn't interested in giving up that independence, and slipped and fell. None of this is rocket science. It's about consistent, daily, good habits. If born into an average body, that's where longevity comes from.
Probably boiled-not fried?
Why would I want become 101 when I cannot eat what I like ?
@@gerrysecure5874Do you do everything that feels good even if it is horrible for you lol. If you want true happiness health and peace of mind is where it is at.
My wife’s 102 year old uncle is all one of the last surviving DDay soldiers. He’s eats whatever he wants to.. I’m convinced at least 80% of it is genetics has nothing to do with anything else
What jumps out is the integrity of your research and academic tone. I immediately subscribed. It's obvious that 'the truth matters' to the extent that you've won the trust of a healthy reverential skeptic.
My health dramatically turned around for the better when I cut sugars, large amounts of carbs, and processed foods from my diet. That said, this data you’ve compiled shows some interesting correlations. One thing that often goes unnoticed by many is that the older generations that lived lengthier lives didn’t have to contend with everything being kept in plastic, daily exposure to cancer-causing elements in devices, etc. It would be interesting to see the human lifespan a century or two from now if things don’t change.
were they though? A lot of anti-carcinogen, environmental-protection, public health/safety, etc. laws & programs came after the 70s, 80, 90s, right? So a lot of those of the older generation were exposed to unhealthy levels of cancer causing agents, pollution, etc. throughout child & adulthood. God knows they were exposed to crazy levels of lead too lol. I'd like to think that modern medicine & advances in technology will offset the new health issues of today (like microplastics in drinking water), but I think a plant-based diet will definitely alleviate some suffering and keep you from having to turn to pharmaceuticals too early in life.
Also, for people presently in their 80s, most food was organic and in my youth, all milk was from grass-fed cows.
@@willowtree9900 Yes. Take DDT, for example. In wide-spread use when I was growing up (1945 til banned in 1972).
And seed oils
I like that. You're rationalizing that maybe it's the food containers and not the low carb diets that killed these people. Whatever helps you sleep at night.
Both my parents died of preventable diseases at 66, That was 30 years ago. They retired at 65 and died at 66. I'm 62 and I"m not taking the risks they took.
Have you read How Not to Die? It looks like 14 of the 15 leading causes of death in America have a very strong relationship with diet.
Wise
@@Viva-Longevity In fact my vegan so has taken me to see 2 Gregor talks and we have 2 signed copies of How Not to Die. :D His videos are always entertaining and informative. I wouldn't be surprised if he lived to 120!!!!
Thanks for sharing your story. Am uncle of mine died this on the 1st day of 2022 out of kidney failure and hypertension after retiring 2 years ago. That was so painful and that shook me to the point where i do not joke with health and nutrition. I even gave up the American dream. A lot of people are dying like this, working their whole life for nothing.
@@Viva-Longevity I sorry to be the one to tell you sir.. We the United States of America did go to the moon and there was nothing fake about it... NASA did a great job of going to the moon..You should really stop 🛑🛑 spreading GOSSIP that is lies...
My mom is from a Crete and very Greek Orthodox. We never ate meat on wednesdays and Fridays. During lent we avoided dairy and meat. We ate lots of veggies and beans that we grew. My mom is now 83 and is a power house. She would make the best Greek sweet bread and other Greek pasteries during holy week and we couldn't eat any till Easter (Pascha).
Athonite monks generally live extraordinarily long lives. It’s more the fasting and lack of processed foods than anything. There’s a wonderful book called “The Athos diet” by an Orthodox MD that details all this. ☦️
🎉 I've worked in care homes for over 30 years. I've never ever met a 100 year old Vegan, elderly love their meat and eggs.
I'm about to turn 70. I believe in listening to your body, we're all different. I love eggs, butter, cheese and some meat, but not pork except for sometimes a bit of bacon. I eat some vegies, but I love fruit and eat a lot of it. No alcohol, don't smoke, fast 18:6. No bread, no junk food. Olive oil only.
My father lived to over 90. His health began to decline when he stopped having his daily bacon and egg breakfast. My brother is close to 85, still doing well, has cut out a lot of dairy food.
My grandmother lived to 87, had a stroke at 79, but was very active until then. She'd eat bread and dripping and salt as a snack!
Genetics are important, but so is attitude. Happy, positive people live longer. People with purpose live longer. Keep your mind and body active.
What is "dripping"?
@@terranjohegrado2350 dripping is the fat that drips out of roasting meat. Ideally it has crispy fragments of cooked meat in it. My grandmother kept it in a big jar next to the stove, every time she cooked a roast more dripping went into the jar. It was amazing and by modern standards incredibly unhealthy.
We are much more the same than we are different. Sure, certain groups of people can digest dairy a bit better, for example. Eggs, butter, cheese and meat are not healthy for anyone.
My father in law drank and smoked until he was about 60. Never did any form of exercise. Dementia at the age of 80. Lives on biscuits . Bloke just turned 96.
Probably outlive me at this rate 🙄
Who wants to live that long in that health condition?
So, exercise, avoid cooked fats, avoid grains mostly, avoid dairy, reduce flesh;
And you'll live healthfully, cheerfully, with longevity.
My ex husband was a vegetarian/vegan since his late 20's and died of early onset dementia in his early 50's, so there's that...😮
Dementia is being called type 3 diabetes.
did he smoke? alcohol? genetics? how old did his folks live to? etc
Now I'm thinking that diet might or might not have a role as big as we think. There are people die young with every diet. There are people live long with every diet.
Honestly, I'm tired of people attacking other people's diet choices in defense of their own choice. Cut processed food and chemicals and eat whatever you want to eat. It's probably just as simple as that.
Sound like he ate bs
Genetics as well as toxic work environment does play a role in dementia Living in the city with pollution is a killer as well Alcohol.smoking,certain drugs etc Plus over 90 percent of people are deficit in Vitamin D3 and it has been proven that D3 (lack of) can cause dementia as well as MS
My grandmother was vegetarian. She was born in 1912 and lived to one month shy of 103
My grandmother was raw carnivore. She lived to 147 years old and drank sheep blood every day.
@@chosengod5943 Ha ha.
@@chosengod5943 Only 147 ? lol
Genes get you to that age, vegetarian is low calorie which, in any whole food dietary setting, is proven to extend life as well 🧐
@@chosengod5943GOOD THING YOU DIDN'T SAY THAT SHE ATE SHEEP TEHSTICLES EVERYDAY!!😂😂😂
Charlotte Gerson would have been a good honorable mention. She spent a lifetime curing cancer and other illnesses with fruits & vegetables and was very active until she passed at 96.
Agreed! Check episode 2: th-cam.com/video/OofKicAiDpQ/w-d-xo.html
Dr.Robert Morse is another one, he is still alive and helping people heal.
I really hope you don’t believe she cured someone’s cancer with a few fruits and vegetables.
@@frankkoolosko4255 I really hope you aren't so ignorant that you think the intensive, years long Gerson Therapy program (scientifically backed and researched since the 1950's) ....is "just a few fruits and vegetables". But here you are.
@@frankkoolosko4255yes, I was there at her clinic. I saw it with my own eyes.
But then as now, cancer cures in American hospitals is BIG business. Making life miserable while radiating and chemically poisoning cancer cells with little success in actually curing cancer. Until they learned to skew the data.
My dad is 88. Growing up they had oatmeal every day, fresh food including wild blackberries, occasional sauerkraut, salmon every Friday. They walked everywhere including to school when he was young. He smoked cigars for a while, but quit. He still drives himself to mass followed by breakfast with his friends almost every day. He has some hearing loss but he denies it, saying that he can hear the grass grow. LOL
Yet another reason to get advice your life depends on from scientists, not bloggers and celebrities.
Well said, Toni!
@@nickg1134 Bloggers like Chris Kresser and Denise Minger were the ones who blogged negatively about the China study, not respected scientists in the field. I don't think death records are random and anecdotal.
@@nickg1134 It's an appeal to expertise, which is great science and most other things in life. There were many scientists involved with expertise, such as Richard Peto, one of the co-authors. He was co-author of the the 50-year observational study that completely changed our understanding of the effects of smoking. Never again would it be considered healthy because the study showed long-term effects, which only observational studies reveal, and which are crucial to understanding food and smoking, because their effects over 20 or more years can be completely different from their effects over a few years.
Which countries (did you mean counties?) showed meat eaters lived longer?
Totally agree
@@delaslight Yes, that is an unfortunate aspect of food science and nutrition. I think the most clear message though is that adding more fiber in your diet will help you greatly. The effect that fiber has on gut health and from there to the rest of the body seems to be very remarkable
This is fascinating. Thank you for putting it together and for allowing PBN to publish it so that I could find you and subscribe!
Your my new favorite youtuber! Forgot Jay Kordich the Juiceman, who got me started! Made it to 93
I didn't know about him! Perfect timing, because I'm working on a sequel with people I left out of the first one. The funny thing is, I just watched a documentary he produced about the Gersons but didn't connect the dots with his juicing fame.
I also didn't know about your channel and now my wife and I are deep-ending on your videos. We gotta know about distilled versus filtered versus tap water. Thanks!
Much love to you John 🙂🙂
Loved Jack Lalanne. Had the original Jack Lalanne Juicer, still works. He was waaayyy ahead of his time. The influencers that incorporated juicing in their diets lived into their eighties and nineties. Juicers keep on juicing....
@@aracelypadilla4658 i use to eat those jl candy bars thinking they must be healthy but they were very full of sugar ,also remember seeing him on the phil donahue show with pauling about vit c -jack was saying organic was best and pauling was sayin it didn't matter,vit c was vit c
My grandma lived up to 84 years old, no high BP, no sickness. She died 3 months after a bad fall. Her diet was very simple, plain porridge with a bit of pickled veg, normal chinese lunch and dinner of fried vege and meat. She never overeat. She was active until her bad fall.
So her diet was so insufficient that she suffered a catastrophic fall at only 84? My grandmother is currently 88, eats red meat, and still does her own yard work.
By porridge, I'm guessing you mean congee made of white rice. Not oatmeal in Europe, or cassava like they eat in West Africa.
@@moondog7694 ya u r right 😁
@@Manskeeeee Asians live the longest as of any other demographic , and most asians have the same diet...your grandma might be an exception to the rule but not the majority. Red meat is really bad for you
84 is just average lifespan.
Turned from keto and animal based to almost 90%plant based , not entirely vegan , with minimal dairy , eggs and fish . Lots of beans , vegetables , legumes , fruits and seeds , tolerating 35 grams of fibre , and every single lab test is getting better and better . the astonishing part is my mood , no mood swings and much more calmer .
Isnt that what they used to call a balanced diet before the grain cartel changed it?
That’s my nightmare diet. What you thrive on would kill me.
Go back to meat. Drop dairy. Add back in other foods from the plant world and see if you react to it. If you don’t… go for it.
@@KAT-dg6elmaybe you killed off your gut microbiome diversity with lack of plants and now aren’t able to digest fiber well
@@kpag3030stop doing what changed your life for the better!
You have to add Dr. Kenneth Cooper, "The Father of Aerobics." He's 93!
As I recall Jim Fox had a heart condition and was given months to live when he started running. Running presumably extended his life by many years.
It is interesting to discover how people lived and died, but there's so many factors, dietary, environmental, hereditary, etc. We might not know or be able to accurately correlate.😢
When speaking of Seventh-day Adventists in the context of vegetarians living longer, you also have to consider that they don’t smoke and don’t drink. Logically and statistically, it seems that those would be significant factors in determining how long one will live.
Excellent summary (overview). Key point at 16:06: "The closer you get to a plant based diet [i.e. fruits and vegetables] the longer you are going to live." HOW TRUE.
My dad is 98 years old. He has an alcohol beverage and a steak or prime rib every day. He loves garlic bread with lots of butter, salt and garlic on it and vegetables are a quarter cup or less. He loves deserts and deviled eggs. He eats what he likes with out a care in the world. I started Carnivore diet and have lost 40 pounds, doctor is amazed at how healthy my numbers are. I tried a Vegan diet for about 6 months and what I remember is weight gain, higher blood pressure and diabetes. No thanks.
This is a wildly underrated channel. Please keep it up!
My mom was vegan for 65 years. She was never healthy. Had a stroke and lost her hair. She went keto and carnivore and her health turned around.
My sister was vegan and only ate sweet potato and was put in hospital.
Did your mother get all the right nutrients in her diet?
@@nb9797I knew 106 yr old ate Mostly sweet potatoes, vegetables and cereal lived a very functional life up to 106
@erniewinn2415 Too much protein and meats are not good for health and kidneys..... could be other things with her health. Nonetheless, eating Whole foods and Plant-based for bodily health will do wonders later in life. Foods you eat today will eventually catch up and bring health or wreak havoc.
@@sammyalabamy111 the bad for health & kidneys is an old wives tale.
@@carboholickim Tell that to the many bodybuilders who has kidney problems later in their lives, also Google the statistics data.
Hey Chris, thank you for your overview. A lot of what you had to say has merit, but I’ve always been a believer that genetics plays a huge part in our longevity. Would love to know the longevity of the predecessors, brothers, sister’s mom‘s dad‘s grandparents . Having said that, there most definitely is a common theme thank you !
I think personality is an underrated factor when it comes to longevity. Some people ignore symptoms until it's too late while others are very motivated to take good care of their health. And it probably doesn't help to be very impulsive, especially not in today's world with all the junk food, drugs and media easily available. Community and health care are important factors as well. You can only get "rushed to the hospital" after "passing out on the bathroom floor" and then make a "full recovery" and end up in a chubbyemu video if someone finds you...
What I’m getting out of this, is that we don’t know enough to make clear cut connections between diet and longevity
I’m sorry it gives that impression. Legit longevity research shows the opposite.
@@Viva-Longevity when your time is up it's up. Doesn't matter what you eat. :-) It's just how you want to live your life. In a healthy state or unhealthy eating a bag of chips every night
@@Viva-Longevity If you think The Blue Zones is legit, I've got the Brooklyn Bridge to sell you.
You got Jack LaLanne's quote incorrect. Jack said "If man made it, don't eat it!", referring to processed, man-made foods. Jack consumed some animal foods like chicken, fish and egg whites, and honey, but the majority of his diet was whole food plant based. Jack LaLanne died at 96 due to pneumonia because he refused to abstain from exercise and physical exertion while sick. Pneumonia in the elderly can be deadly as the aging body has to work harder to fight off the infection. Had Jack simply shelved his ego, refrained from exercise, rested and got medical attention for his pneumonia, I sincerely believe Jack LaLanne would have lived well past 100 years old. I would put Jack LaLanne in the catagory of: "Most Likely to Reach and/or Exceed 100 Years Old" - Interesting Journalism. Nice work overall - Cheers!
Wow! Could we reupload and link to your channel please?
It would be an honor; I am in awe of Vegan 2020 - The Film, I just can't believe how great it is. A former associate medical director of the Pritikin Center commented that it would be better to characterize Nathan's diet as Okinawan, so I can make that correction. You can contact me at plantchompers at gmail and I can do whatever you need me to with the episode.
Great idea 👏👏
@@Viva-Longevity Chris, Okinawan's incorporated pork into their diet. They were NOT vegan.
@@wherethereslifethereshope9858 yeah they didn't eat match pork and there diet was closer to looking like the Mediterranean diet with fish and eggs
@@wherethereslifethereshope9858 Said the cherry-picked studies fueled channel What I've Learned
What can I say, I really like your videos, the work you put in and, of course, your personality
Same here. This video should be a documentary😉
Thank you Chris!!! I just played this for my multiple decade vegan wife and you had us riveted from the first words. Well done sir.
Thanks! I had so much more to tell, like some of the people who came to their healthy diets only did it because they ran into health problems, like Nathan Pritikin. Or because their research led them there, like Colin Campbell. He was raised on a dairy farm and once believed animal protein was the best.
Jack LaLanne's diet books advocate hamburger patties for many meals, so I'm not sure where this presenter came up with the diea that he said "if it comes from a cow, don't eat it"
Those were his early books. He changed.
Thank you so much - with all that different information out there - I visited a nutritional school back then and already saw that there was a lot of diets going on that were not that benefical according to science but were being sold as the golden solution. And so many different approaches. I think people are not solely dying of wrong nutrition, but this way to compare and look at it was interesting to say at least. And a moderate way. I also know that people are different and what is healthy for one person can make another person sick. I speak of experiance. It´s only natural that there is no one solution for all people in health. Peoples bodies react too differently. It´s always been this way. And I don`t think we can change that.
The TH-cam nutrition channels that I’ve seen citing the broadest peer reviewed literature are both channels that advocate for plant heave diets. There’s enough options of what to watch these days, that if they are citing sources in the description, I never return to their channel
Underrated video, I may be able to help you guys get some more subscribers by sharing this video!
I'm ready to see this channel have a million subscribers. It's well deserved. Such incredible information.
Subscribed.
As a meat eater, I encourage everyone to have at least 2 or 3 days in the week in which all your meals are veggie based. Eat less meat and small meat portions it's not hard. I don't think veganism is for me but I'm definitely for healthier choices.
Lol...why? nutrienets in plants are NOT bioavailable? Fibre? we can't really digest it, can we? so, why go against NATURE?
my life completely changed for the better when i cut most plants ( grains/seeds/fruits) I only eat sporadically stuff that is low on glycemic level and low on oxalates , seasonal, organic and handpicked from wild when possible ( berries, cucumbers, cabbage (fermented), asparagus, watermelon etc. . Grass fed Meat and organs, pasture Eggs, pasture chicken, pasture pork, wild caught fish and shellfish, fermented stuff like raw cheeses or sauerkraut. Raw milk, raw dairy. ALL 100% readily available and full profile nutrients and enzymes and minerals and micronutrients. i repeat : by nature, 100% bioavailable. Not the case for plants, which ALSO contain antinutrients.
Veganism is not "for you".... cause it's a highly dangerous and malnurishing diet, it's not for "ANYONE" really....
@@Ν11-φ9ρ i can deff see this working very very well. I went on a vegan diet for over 2 years and started looking extremely ill, couldn’t gain any weight and my stomach would hurt so much I could barely walk. I notice how some people flourish on a vegan or vegetarian diet and some do not. I thought I was defective. I feel like there’s a possibility of blood type somehow playing into it but maybe that’s a stretch. Thank you for your comment.
Keep eating high amounts of plant-based superfoods fruits and vegetables and sweet potatoes, beans, etc and just eat less of the red meat and get a little bit more protein from vegetables and try and make fish and eggs and little bit of chicken your sources of meat and just every once in awhile have a little bit of red meat. That's what the Japanese do and that's also similar to the Mediterranean diet and they have way less obesity and way less disease than we do in the Western countries
@@alani6815 They don't flourish for long, and not without taking supplements, or cheating, or having some kind of defiency causoing some kind of health issue ...lol
Fish and eggs alone, when wild caught and of pasture quality, are absolute nature Superfoods.You could just THRIVE on these 2 alone! It's what saves vegetarians.
With the vegan diet you're devoid of 50 essential nutrients, you're prone to eat loads, snack loads, raise your insulin levels more, and the body is not getting the full/complete profile of the proteins proteins. Nutrients are poorly absorbed cause hindered by Toxins, oxallates, antinutrients, blocking absortion paths AND hormone production paths. Plant nutrient are not reckognised by the human body, giving poor absorbtion rates as humans struggle to convert the plant form of nutrients, into something that can be absorbed, unlike Animal nutrition, which, by nature, is immediately very welcomed by your body : Nature made animal nutrition the only 100% Bioavailable form of nutrtion for us humans. Readily available and easyly absorbable.
So, no wonder u felt like that when you were vegan.
The bigger storage of animal nutrtion in your fat or bone tissue ....the longer chance of surving the vegan you'll have. As your body, when deprived of nutrients will be forced to extract it from ..itself.
Take care anyhow, and enjoy foods to satiation ( not bloating) and enjoy food for what it is, nutrition, and not fashion or time killing, or comfort.
@@JJ38255 Red meat does not cause obesity? or anything else? You're such a hype believer!
The resaon Japan and S.korea and places like Sardinia in Italy have high life expectancy and low heart related diseases is NOT because they eat beans, sweet potatoes and superfood fruits instead of Red meat. LOL
The reason is purely because of the high amount of/ AND the high quality of the Animal Nutrtion they eat ( freshly caught, and eaten raw, and with high amounts of good Fat), and cause the diet is void of sugar and processed garbage and refined carbs, real culprits of the diseases when combined with rest of diet. Infact, Red Meat Is Superfood itself.
Actually, in Japan and South Korea, Beef and other meats are very popular, eaten in high amounts, same thing goes for Italy.
I'm Italian.... so i should know.
Beef, Lamb, pork, and high ammounts of freshly hunted Game meat, and high ammounts of fresh Fish. And very little carbs, and very little but only local and seasonal vegs. Fermented foods such as quality fermented raw red meats, and raw cheeses and fermented vegs and drinks are to blame for the INCREASE in health. Quality Animal Nutrtion with all its good Fat brings satiation, and therefore less eating/ snacking culure. Less insulin, less diseases. Even the alchool they drink, in moderation, is highly distilled and therefore much better for you.
I love the video and noticed many of the comments mention grandparents and farming. My grandmother just passed away at 104. Her childhood was during the Great Depression and her teenage years during the Dust Bowl. Her parents were homesteaders in Western Kansas, and during her final years, I was surprised to hear her mention that, although her family raised cattle and pigs ("shoats"), they never had meat as the main meal. It was always an ingredient, never the main event and most of the meals were salads from the garden and a soup, stew or casserole with a bit of meat thrown in. Why only a bit of meat??? Because they knew firsthand the process involved in raising, slaughtering, and curing any type of animal protein, so they had reverence for it.
When she was 102 and still thriving, I asked her why she thinks she lived for so long. She said one word, "temperance." I had to look the word up, but basically, it means moderation. I never remember her overindulging. She'd have dessert, but only a little. Thanksgiving, a well rounded plate, but never seconds. Alcohol, maybe a sip on two or special occasions. And temperance with her thoughts as well. Never opinionated, loud, or garrulous Instead, she was typically sitting quietly in the background, listening, observing, learning.
As for me, I went vegan 7 years ago for lupus and it has helped me greatly on levels: mind, body, spirit. I love the channel. Thank you Chris, for putting your heart and soul into it!
*Prove me Wrong===>*
*70% to 90% of the No Fruit MEAT Eaters are TRUMP'sGoons!!!!*
Temperance...yes.
Being vegan is not in tune with moderation, it’s an extreme diet
I read a book about nutrition and longevity recently, Peter Attia Outlive The Science and Art of Longevity. The conclusions as I recall them were similar to the people on the right. But what stuck in my head was that exercise was more important than diet. He particularly stressed getting VO2 max up, and also retaining muscle mass, because both were correlated with not only lifespan, but also health span. From memory, so I could just be remembering my biases of what he wrote.
You seem pretty decent.
It is hard to predict anything. Even RCT in the hundreds pointing twds LDL do not tell the whole story. There are ppl, who have very low LDL and die from CHD. And there are ppl, who have very high LDL and get very old.
It is only a tendency.
So it seems not plausibel to proof, if excercise is the "best".
I am in the fraction (tiny I guess), that claims, it is the amount of calories and if you get overweight (and not so much what you consume), that is the most influencial factor (of being healty and maybe to live "longer").
It is some kind of gut feeling involved to come to this conclusion...
@@clownbackpainrick6581 I think he would agree with you that there is a variance among people. What he is talking about is statistical: If you take a random group of people, then the more fit are less likely to die than the less fit. Everyone has an anecdote about someone who drank like a fish, or smoked like a steam engine, yet lived a long, healthy life. They are an exception though, because in general such people will die young. Obesity is an almost certain sign of low VO2 max. And, it contributes to most of the worst killers, since it causes inflammation. Severe obesity can be likened to a low grade auto immune disease. So, you are just saying something similar to what he says in a different way. Sure, some obese people will live long, healthy lives, but in general, they will die young.
A quote from the book about the importance of VO2 max.
This number is not just relevant to athletes; it turns out to be highly correlated with longevity. A 2018 study in JAMA that followed more than 120,000 people found that higher VO2 max (measured via a treadmill test) was associated with lower mortality across the board. The fittest people had the lowest mortality rates-by a surprising margin. Consider this: A person who smokes has a 40 percent greater risk of all-cause mortality (that is, risk of dying at any moment) than someone who does not smoke, representing a hazard ratio or (HR) of 1.40. This study found that someone of below-average VO2 max for their age and sex (that is, between the 25th and 50th percentiles) is at double the risk of all-cause mortality compared to someone in the top quartile (75th to 97.6th percentiles). Thus, poor cardiorespiratory fitness carries a greater relative risk of death than smoking.
That’s only the beginning. Someone in the bottom quartile of VO2 max for their age group (i.e., the least fit 25 percent) is nearly four times likelier to die than someone in the top quartile-and five times likelier to die than a person with elite-level (top 2.3 percent) VO2 max. That’s stunning. These benefits are not limited to the very fittest people either; even just climbing from the bottom 25 percent into the 25th to 50th percentile (e.g., least fit to below average) means you have cut your risk of death nearly in half, according to this study.
These results were confirmed by a much larger and more recent study, published in 2022 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, looking at data from 750,000 US veterans ages thirty to ninety-five (see figure 9). This was a completely different population that encompassed both sexes and all races, yet the researchers found a nearly identical result: someone in the least fit 20 percent has a 4.09 times greater risk of dying than a person in the top 2 percent of their age and sex category. Even someone of moderate fitness (40th to 60th percentile) is still at more than double the risk of all-cause mortality than the fittest group, this study found. “Being unfit carried a greater risk than any of the cardiac risk factors examined,” the authors concluded.
@@clownbackpainrick6581 VO2 max is hard to measure for an individual, but there is another measure that is pretty straightforward, and has a correlation with VO2 max: Heart rate recovery time. A brief description is the amount of time it takes for your heart rate to return to normal from your maximum heart rate. A simple way to do it is to perform HIIT to hit your maximum heart rate, then measure your heart rate at one minute intervals until it is normal. The most important number is the number after the first minute. Suppose your max heart rate is 155 beats per minute. After 1 minute, your heart rate is at 120. Then you have a drop of 35. The higher this number is, the fitter you are. Of course, if you want the gold standard, it is necessary to do the treadmill VO2 max test. But this is quick and easy to do, and gives a good approximate measure.
Also makes life more fun. Exercise is fun!
Great book! Just finished it.
Jim fix' dad died of a heart attack at the age of 40 caused in part by a congenital heart defect that was passed to his son jim.Jims running may have given him a few more years than dad.His book in the 70s,The complete book of running along with Sylvester Stallones movie Rocky inspired me and my brother to run as kids and young adults.Rest in peace Jim!✌
It should be noted that in most relavent studies running only appears to be beneficial up to about 45 minutes of running a day, and can increase your risk of dying from heart problems if you run much more than that.
@@garethbaus5471 That's true. Running for too long of a time causes the body to begin producing cortisol in large amounts, which mimics stress. This is very hard on the heart. Long-distance runners have a pretty high heart disease rate.
This channel doesnt do a lot of research , they just pick things and do some general reading on it, confirms some biases and discard relevant nuances. Then dresses it up to appeal to the modern viewer.
I read the autopsy showed his heart arteries were clogged .
As a former sub-elite runner with a high metabolism, I always thought that exercise offset a poor diet. A LOT of people have this mindset that they can out-exercise a bad diet or that exercise allows them to eat a regular diet. It’s not working, and they’re not immunized against the ravages of “eating like an average American.”
No mention of the fact that Nathan Pritikin committed suicide as a result of the unbearable pain of leukemia ....BUT that he was fully active until a few weeks before death AND upon autopsy his arteries were found to be free of any signs of heart disease, as “soft and pliable as a teenager"
Thanks for the information. 👍
At my year anniversary being vegan I just want to say this is the video that did it. Thank you ❤
Like fish plants scream when you kill them.
You just can't hear it.
@@wolfgangkranek376 yeah, yeah, ok...
@@wolfgangkranek376 not every vegan makes the decision because of "animal cruelty". That's like saying every person in the gym is there to be a professional body builder.
@@jayaye9926 You mean some vegans just want to deliberately hurt and torture plants?
It's actually been proven that eating a vegan diet will slowly start to shrink your organs. So there's that.
Ancel Keyes hid the results of the Minnesota Diet Study carried out by his department between 1968 and 1972. This was the largest controlled nutrition study involving over 9000 inmates of mental institutions who diet, medication and health could be modified in detail. It compared his version of a Mediterranean diet based on US produced seed oils hydrogenated to produce trans fats plus US grains and sugar that later became the basis of the US Nutritional Guidelines that where spread around the globe and are accepted to be the cause of metabolic disorder obesity, diabetes 2, heart disease, cancer, arthritis and dementia. This trial gave the wrong results disproving his claims so was not published in full. When it was dug up and analyzed and published by the BMJ in 2012 it showed that his diet caused death from a range of causes whereas the traditional diet based on saturated fat and whole foods did not and had a lower all cause mortality. That Keyes fiddled his data is easy to prove by looking at that from the 20 countries in his study from which he selected the seven to make his case. As one living in the Mediterranean I can say his Mediterranean diet is not common here where there are as many different diets as countries plus regional differences within countries.
i like to eat, thank you for making food content 3 years ago that i’m watching in January of 2024.
Excellent. Cannot understand why you don't have millions of subs. Always good content.
Just wanted to mention that Charles poliquin’s father also died of a heart attack, and there was a history of other heart problems in the family
yea charles was genetic which may really be code word for vitamin and mineral deficiencies handed down generation to generation.
He also used steroids and was single % body fat year round. Also the stress from the intense sttength protocols like gvt should be considered. These thing usually lead to heart enlargement and left ventricle atrophy.
Charles himself didn't even eat low carb and was never opposed to high carbs. He believed that people should according to their genes. Some can handle more and some can handle less. He has always said that if you want to lose weight then cut the carbs and when you lose weight you can increase the carbs.
Yeah coz they all ate high meat, lots of fried, high dairy I'm sure
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Young men having heart attacks, I would be asking how many jabs they have had
What an amazing video! Super interesting! Hope this gets millions of views!!
Adele Davis was my hero in the early 1970's. The greatest thing she did for me was to inspire me to live a healthy lifestyle. Eventually, in my 40's I turned to vegetarianism and thence to veganism. So despite her recommendations, she was the springboard and I will be forever grateful to her.
I like how mention of Linus Pauling here is only about his relevant nutritional work when he’s simultaneously one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.
I saw the cat scan of a woman who had been on the Atkins diet since the 80’s and was now in her seventies , her organs were clearly healthy with just the correct amount of visceral fat and perfect amount of sub cutaneous fat. Her muscles were self evidently healthy also. A cat scan of a vegan was a huge surprise with vast amounts of visceral fat almost obliterating the organs and musculature.
I got a cat scan, I had my cat waved around my head 2 times and he gave me a 2 du claws up.
Some vegans, e.g. My son, get most of their calories from carbs: wheat, rice, potatoes. This guarantees visceral fat.
Is meat the enemy? I'm not convinced. Are grains the enemy? In large quantities, yes.
Of course public enemy #1 is the combination of vegetable oil and sugar. This guarantees obesity, heart disease and cancer.
@@bookmouse2719 🤣🤣🤣
This is shocking. I used to be pretty dogmatic in my views when it came to carnivore and keto, as that’s where my health journey first started. I was able to get myself back to a baseline in my health and I am now more functional as a human after implementing more meat in my diet alongside intermittent fasting.
With the new research showing the benefits of the gut microbiome, that opened a whole new perspective on the way I eat. One side would say eating carnivore would help get rid of digestive issues as your microbiome will reset itself and naturally come back to a degree. But the other side would say eating lots of plants and a variety of them would provide the biggest amount of beneficial bacteria for your gut bugs to feed off of, providing beneficial effects for you.
I am now in a point in my journey where I am still adverse to going full plant based, but I’ve incorporated a variety of veggies and fruits in my diet and have seen benefits as a whole. I do believe the mass production of meat is not sustainable and a harm to both the animals and humans that eat them. Especially when they are kept in small areas and force fed a diet that they weren’t evolved to eat, which is grass and not seeds and grains.
I do believe that eating a proper amount (whatever that truly may be for one person) of meat that is from wild grazing animals will provide the best quality of nutrition for us as humans. That’s why I can’t wait to go hunting one day and try some deer. But don’t fear! I’ll be looking around for some wild growing crops as well. Might come across some wild shrooms🥴
As time goes on, my views will continue to change.
Best diet is too practice daily fasting. Everything we eat is toxic and bad because producers are trying to cut costs and the environment we live in this modern era is bad. As for what to eat whole foods are the best: Red meat, eggs, dairy, ground provisions, fish, butter, fruits, veggies
Thanks for making such an interesting video! Among the people you mentioned, Jack LaLanne sets the example that I try to follow.
Me too!
I still love JL
I loved the interview where he debunked Arnies Mr America “ It’s better than sex” commentary. Jack was honest saying how if he didn’t exercise for a few days he felt lousy. I think it was on the Phil Donahue Show.
Thank you so much, Chris, for all the effort you put into showing us how useful and healthy a plant based diet is, based on so much scientific data and studies...
I'm sure you have a significant influence on the whole world and humanity's future that leads into a more positive direction! ❤
Awesome research and great episode! Years ago, I wondered the same thing myself but didn't have the time to explore. You've done that and made it fun to watch too.
I love how you took a complex subject and presented it in an "easy to digest" format, science and data ftw!
Easy to digest unlike most plants
@@matthewroberts3909 That is why God invented blenders.
@@lpg12338 LMAO
Interesting I went to the carnivore diet about a year ago and it’s help me feel much better so I’m hoping to see more of your next episodes
Or you could just realise that we're not carnivores and even natural omnivores, when you look at carnivore bodies and omnivore bodies and OUR body;
which is the body of a frugal undoubtedly
I know that my mainly vegetarian diet didn't work for my iron levels and I couldn't seem to get them higher without meat. Eating a little meat and mainly vegetables/fruit works really well for me.
You fucking loser, junkies feel better when they take meth. Greasy ass fuck
Good ol' Jack LaLanne....if you pull up some of his old shows on youtube....AMAZING! And Dr. Wareham my hero...I take my b-12 every week...I"ve been plant-strong since 2010 .. at 63 I feel like I'm 33.
Agreed! I’m a big fan of Jack Lalanne..
There are so many variables like exercise, upbringing, vaccine, and drugs
Not drinking alcohol has done wonders for my lipid levels so booze consumption should be considered.
That final word from Professor Campbell sums up what appears indisputable: "The closer we get to a plant-based diet, the healthier we are going to be".
@Han Boetes Yes but can you back it up?
Tell that to the majority of vegans who have to quit it after 2 years because of their nutrition status and general malaise.
@@MrMadalien I don't tell anything to made up groups.
Vegans are dying in masses and it’s hilarious
Thanks for the video, Chris! My husband and I enjoy your very informative, humorous, and balanced presentations. We appreciate all the work that you put into your channel!
I was wondering why Dr. T Colin Campbell wasn't mentioned, the movie "Forks Over Knives" influenced me to go vegan almost 6yrs ago. His collaboration on that movie with Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn played a large part in my conversion, and I was a hard-cored carnivore, for real.
He is mentioned and shown talking towards the end of the film!
Because he’s still alive and he’s this is a video about dead people!
This makes more sense and carries more justification than any video I've ever seen on the subject!
There are scores of famous dietitians past and present, he's hand selects a couple dozen. I'd like to see one of the fat and protein influencers pick their own and show what their spread of faces looks like across the age spectrum.
Before we even get through the video, I can BET YOU, they did not address calcium in the blood vessels.
It’s not an understatement to say reading Diet for a New America (at 18) and The China Study changed my life
Great work! Really enjoyed it. Vege since 2019 & and im still learning.
I'm still trying to figure out how my Grandfather who heavily smoked and heavily drank all his life, since he was 15 years old, and also ate whatever he wanted (lots of steak) for all of his life, lived until well in to his 90's.
Like Winston Churchill! Usually those lucky people end up with ailments like gout, though, even though they live long. Was that the case with your grandfather?
@@Viva-Longevity Shockingly no, at least not that anyone knew of. Perhaps he was hiding it.
@@phototristan Lucky man and lucky you, probably, to inherit some of those genes.
A very very small portion of people are able to do what your grandfather has done. The majority of people are suffering chronic illness is because of the poor eating habits.
Go ahead, smoke and drink, nobody says you can't. "Do you feel lucky, Punk" haha..( aside- I can't believe how polar, black/white, either/or, left/right...binary! this world has become. The known universe now in the palm of our hands, yet cretinism is the new pandemic...) 🤪
Have whatever you want in moderation and control stress at any cost. Do whatever it takes and be happy outside and inside. Sure you will godown smiling after atleast 80+years.❤
"Proteins, carbs, and fats" is an outdated paradigm, as is counting calories. Newer paradigms such as oxidants/antioxidants, raw/cooked, and vitamins/minerals/super nutrients/nutriceuticals, are more useful in describing the benefits possible through diet. Truth is every food has a good and a bad side to it. The most successful diet so far has been the "well balanced diet" which also avoids smoking/alcohol.
I understand why you did this, but I think focusing on the date of death is too narrow. What we want is a good life. The duration is less important. Great health means you can do activities in old age, not that you will become immortal.
okay but those two things are strongly correlated, and the point of the video (going plant based) still applies
I totally agree. I'd rather die at 60 and be healthy til the end than die at 100 having suffered greatly for 40 years.
Yeah, BUT the Mediterranean diet and vegan guys were working as surgeons and mowing their lawns into their 90's, while the high fat, low carbers were long dead.
I have never looked at a 100 year old and thought yeah I want to live that long.
@@lightoftheworld417 But until you were there you would never know what it FELT like to be a healthy centenarian.
Its interesting how i have many grandparents who are still alive aged around a hundred and they all follow so simple meal plans, it almost seams like overcomplicating diet is not ideal.
It's easy to prepare a simple meal when you have fresh ingredients from the garden.
@@whatsinaname9696 correct, if you cant get your produce locally its harder to eat mostly unprocessed food
@@depressedcarrot4134Not really. Unprocessed food is available at every supermarket. It's called vegetables, fruits, beans, whole grains, nuts, seeds and mushrooms.
New subbie here!!! Love the way you present your case!
Vegetarianism which I've done for more than 20 yrs of which 4 years vegan, were the worst years of my life. My physical health deteriorated, I got mental issues and my teeth and root canals rotted away from eating carbs and seed oils. If I would've continued this diet I would be a wreck of a human being.
My best years were when I went on an animal based diet. Raw milk, grass fed beef, pasture raised pork and chicken, eggs and fish.
I can't afford this anymore, but I still eat as much animal based foods as possible, and I am in good health.
A lot of these health gurus that died young probably didn't die of what they ate but they died of excessive training. Excessive endurance or strength training is not good for longevity, and the more and the harder you train, the more you need to sleep and rest for recovery, especially when you're past 30 years old.
Very very true. Goatis’ made a video about this on YT that all excercise ages you and is stress on the body. It makes sense when you look at athletes at the start of their career and their peak they look really bad and worn out. Like if you look at bolt when he started in 07 he looked vibrant at the end of his career in 2017 he looked worn out, burnt and overtrained
@@Notifications485 Khabib Nurmagomedov, the famous UFC champion, said that when you train like that and you want to stay healthy, your life revolves around eating, training and above all, sleeping.
@@marcelklein3879 Well, training like an athlete is unhealthy. Plus all these pro athlete abuse steroids and all sorts of PEDs for recovery and to compete in their sport. I personally believe excercise done in moderation is healthy. I’m a very tall man I’m 6’5 ever since j started strength training I can walk properly and I don’t have back pains anymore. But being a pro athlete is too stressful for the body
Thank you so much for all the work and your amazing humor!
Very compelling video, I was vegetarian for about 40 years and felt great even beyond great, then I got drawn into veganism and the raw food movement, and my health took a dive. So then I heard about the carnivore diet I at first dismissed it out right as ridicules. But as time went by it slowly changed my mind about healthy foods, and I went full on into the carnivore diet for a year to give it a fair trial, and at first I felt great and my skin even looked younger. But slow I began to feel weaker and was tied all the time and I gained weight, a lot of weight about 30 kgs.
So I switched to the Ketogenic diet because I still had all the theories about fat being healthy and sugar and carbs being the cause of heart disease. On the Ketogenic diet I did start to feel much better, but still I could not lose the extra weight I have gained from being on the carnivore diet, unless I do intensive exercise and then if I stop exercising the weight comes straight back.
I came across your channel just this week and at first I dismissed you as the typical vegan pumping your vegan religion. But this video has given me pause for thought, because in the end it’s how long you live that is the proof. So I guess you have convinced me to go back to my original vegetarian diet and we will see what happens. But this time I think I will back the diet up with some blood tests, because you could be cherry-picking the data to fit your narrative whether that’s intentional or unintentionally. But I will give the vegetarian diet a fair trial, and really thanks for making this video because its important to scrutinize the lives of diet influencers if we are to come to a fuller understanding of which diet is the heathiest.
That’s interesting. What cooking fat did you primarily use while you were carnivore?
@@Draw4Dame Butter
Why don't you try Indian food?
@@lisanyugenhascancer6332 Why? Isn't Vietnamese better,,?
@@deefee701 if it doesn't include murder
Great compilation! I hadn’t thought of looking at the death ages of the health gurus!
Bro this is fantastic keep it up. Instant subscribe!
I agree
So glad I discovered this video, and your channel!
If you ever decide to do a follow-up (or indeed any other video on historical nutrition influencers), you *must* bring up Scott & Helen Nearing -- two nearly lifelong vegetarians who wrote books on healthful living that were hugely influential. When Scott turned 100 he decided that it was time to die, so he stopped eating. Helen lived to be 91 when she died in a car accident.
There is a flaw in the Ancil Keys study reported on this podcast. Keys used a 7 country study which was found to be a 22 country study and he cherry picked the data to get results he wanted.
It appears that all went to other world at their written time. My maternal grandfather died approximately at 120 years of age of lung disease he was smoker, ate whole wheat bread, vegetables, tea, lassi (we get it shaking yogurt with water and skimm off butter) and less milk. HE walked a lot and was stress free.
Walked a lot and was stress free, lived in a beautiful area i guess. That's the key to health, environment, coupled with perfect diet, allowing some flesh or cooked food sometimes
Another great video! Very interesting!
This is definitely a worthwhile topic, though i feel, based on my family, that genetics also plays a large part. My oldest brother is only 84 and the baby of the family will be 77 this year, but we're getting up there. We're all generally physically and mentally healthy while having gone through some health challenges, and physically active (except the youngest, who's decided to let himself get fat). Will any of us reach 100? Studies of super-centenarians show they're not typically vegetarians, with many researchers feeling it's mostly about genes. But for those of us without the right genes, it may be (appears to be) that a good diet, exercise, etc makes the difference in reaching our full age potential. I aim to follow the science with respect to my own physiology and experience. I keep experimenting, using test results, energy, mental strength and flexibility, to gauge the results of the things i try. High protein (mostly fish, poultry, dairy, eggs, with the very occasional red meat), high non-saturated fat, low carb (keeps my glucose down and i'm currently losing weight after a multi-month family-visiting vacation), lots of vitamins and supplements. Cholesterol about 200, though i hit 170's the last couple of months, glucose in the 80's and 90's (i've previously been diagnosed as hyperglycemic), blood pressure now in the 120's-130's over 60's or 70's, exercising, regular fasting, meditating, lots of sleep, and 70-100 grams of fiber daily. Doing what i can. Both parents died just before 80 due to the effects of strokes, so that's been an impetus, though i was interested in health long before that happened. We'll see.
So now I want to know how you get to that level of fibre content, I struggle to get to half that and with low-carb it's tough. Suggestions gratefully accepted.
Your diet will make you die younger. Actually, all the Blue Zones, which have the highest number of centenarians, ALL have predominantly vegetarian diets : They eat a lot of beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, pumpkin, and PREDOMINANTLY leafy green vegetables as their staple food.
You know nothing about science and only have this petty goal of achieving 100 years of age 🤡🥳
@@crazygreenlady7907, avocados are high in fiber. Amongst other benefits
@@crazygreenlady7907 Flax seal meal, or Optifiber (Costco) added to my coffee, help keep me regular, as I don't like oatmeal.
I am an 84 year old vegan, retired epidemiologist. No diseases of age. Weigh 125 lbs. Love your channel.
Awesome! Can you email me? plantchompers at gmail.
Our grandparents ate off the land n walked a lot...this is an entirely different world full of toxins and overdoing work, excessive stress, plastics, unnecessary surgeries, HEAVY PHARMACEUTICAL reliance, excessive stress inducing exercise... there's no telling what could be the cause of someone's death today.
So I have a well balanced diet with a mix of steamed vegetables making up the bulk of the evening meal and some form of protein making up the rest, lunch is a sandwich with tomato, spinach and about 25g of meat and thinly spread with margarine. Breakfast was always a high fibre multi-grain cereal or rolled oats when I had it. After my heart attack at around 60 I switched to butter and time I guess will tell whether helps. All I know is I find margarine smells foul and if I still get a heart attack then I'd rather go out enjoying my meals.
You don't need the butter or the margarine, and of course you don't need the meat either.
@@mayhu3282 you obviously don't cook or prepare meals. If you make sandwiches you need something to waterproof the bread lest liquids from the tomatoes or roasted capsicums make it all soggy. It becomes especially important when you make them the night before as I do. Another thing fresh butter offers is a lovely taste, unlike margarine. How does the saying go? If you do x & y and never do z you'll live to be 100, but you'll also wish you didn't.
The Ancel Keys study, also known as the Seven Countries Study, has been criticized for potential biases in its design and analysis. Some of the reasons why it is considered biased are:
1. Cherry-picking data: Ancel Keys selected data from seven countries that supported his hypothesis that dietary fat intake is associated with heart disease. This selective approach may have skewed the results and limited the generalizability of the findings.
2. Exclusion of data: The study excluded data from countries that did not fit the hypothesis, which could have led to an overestimation of the association between fat intake and heart disease.
3. Lack of control for confounding factors: The study failed to adequately control for other factors that could influence heart disease risk, such as smoking, physical activity, and socioeconomic status. This lack of control makes it difficult to isolate the specific effect of dietary fat intake.
4. Incomplete dietary assessment: The study relied on food frequency questionnaires, which are prone to recall bias and may not accurately capture participants' actual dietary intake. This could have introduced measurement errors and affected the study results.
5. Limited sample size: The study had a relatively small sample size, which reduces the statistical power and may limit the generalizability of the findings.
6. Publication bias: There is evidence to suggest that the Ancel Keys study was selectively published, with positive findings being emphasized while negative findings were downplayed. This publication bias can distort the overall picture of the research findings.
It is important to note that while the study has been criticized for these biases, it also contributed to the understanding of the relationship between diet and heart disease. Subsequent research has provided more comprehensive and nuanced evidence in this field.
This has all been addressed by Chris in other videos. This list of criticisms mostly comes from the cattle industry.
Another influencer is the naturopath and nutritionist David Getoff, vice-president of the Price-Pottenger group. He was a Weston A. Price fan but it appears he probably wasn't using FERMENTED cod liver oil at the time of his passing away, because he wrote that he had the best results with lemon-flavored Carlson brand cod liver oil. He passed away of acute myeloid leukemia at age 70 on Oct 30 2022.
I think genetics is something to look at, too. I wish you could provide a spreadsheet of all these "influencers"! However, on my own I've been making a list of some of these influencers and looking up their spouses and parents ages to account for genetics. For example, Fred Kummerow, Henry Blackburn, and Jack Lalanne all had 1 or 2 parents who lived into their 90's, so they had some longevity genes. But I'm incredibly impressed by Ancel Keys, Bonnie Prudden, Linus Pauling, Jean Nidetch, John Harvey Kellogg, and Upton Sinclair who all lived much longer than their parents. Thanks for doing this! I'm not a vegetarian but it sure convinces me to eat more veggies!
A brief aside is movement along with smart nutrition is essential
Thanks for the informative presentation
Both my grandparents made it into their late 90s. Neither walked with a cane or wore glasses. They started out life on a farm before moving to a city environment in middle age back in the 1950s. They ate entirely farm raised animal protein but it was not a fixture at every meal and the portions were small because there were near 20 people to cook for between 13 kids and the adults family members. The staple food was beans and lentils for protein at every meal. Then vegetables, a very diverse variety of fruits from avocado to passion fruit and farm raised eggs with dairy mostly limited to one variety of what I think was a low fat cheese similar to mozzarella. Very little refined wheat products. Regular consumption coffee and what would probably qualify as organic chocolate. When they later moved to the city they were abruptly exposed to a great deal of diesel and gas engine contamination before the days of regulation of emissions. I remember visiting there in the 1970s and developing asthma which went away when I returned home to a more suburban environment. They both developed dementia which I think was caused by the sudden drop off in clean air triggering inflammatory conditions in their brains. Inflammation seems to be the common denominator in high fat animal foods and environmental contamination. Which is in my view a major support for remote work and spreading human activity away from high concentrations of vehicle emissions and factory animal meats raised in close quarters.
Jack LaLanne ate fish and egg whites almost every day.
I have been binge watching as much of your informative videos as I can!! Thanks so much for the work you are doing!! Kudos!!
WW2 Vet Richard Overton lived to 112 and smoked up to 12 cigars a day, drank whiskey and lived on can food and butter pecan ice cream.
But as he said he smoked the healthy way by not inhaling the cigar, he liked whiskey but was never drunk, and he ate fish, milk and soup, but also was always slim and fit and spent time outdoors and had a good attitude always ready for a laugh.
If you have to take a pill to maintain your B12 levels what does that tell you about your diet? (It's not sustainable or natural.) The good news is you don't need much animal products to maintain it. Ad you don't need to fry anything. Focus on how you're cooking something as much as what you're consuming. In short: Eat only as much as you really need. Look at how so many people lived after being in a state of deprivation like being in a prison camp. You'll be startled how it seems to benefit our longevity. Water fasting is your very dear friend. Aim for 40 days eventually or whenever you get a sudden massive hunger. It's a little different for each of us. At that point your body is looking for any sources of calories it can use for energy. After your fat is used up it looks for anything else. A tumor is one of those sources of energy. This only happens around day 40 for most people. You'll notice it when it happens. It's a hunger that will floor you. You'd have to be unconscious to miss it. That's when you resume eating.