It has been quite some time since I last made an update about my diet or supplements on my blog. One of the main reasons is that not a lot changed for a while and there wasn’t really anything to update on. I feel that any frequent updates about ‘what I eat in a day’…
Category: Calorie Restriction
If you’re lucky and have the right genes, you may grow up looking younger than your actual age for most of your life. Most people, however, seem to age at a similar rate with some outliers looking a few years younger than their age. And then there are internet sensations such as Lure Hsu, a…
It’s been quite a long time since I shared my diet on this blog, so I thought I’d give an update. I also don’t usually do these kinds of posts because I’m not sure if people are interested and my diet doesn’t really change a whole lot either. I mean, aside from when I became…
One of the excuses many people have about eating healthily is that it simply costs too much compared to processed or packaged foods. Unfortunately, at least for myself, I’ve found that this is true unless I’m being very cautious about what I buy and where I buy the food from. One way I could drastically…
David Fisher, 61 years old, is one of the few long term adherents to calorie restriction in the world. While most people only stick to a diet for just a few weeks or months at a time, he has managed to maintain a strict CR diet for 30 years! In 2004, he was featured in…
Since the 1930s calorie restriction has been the gold standard for increasing lifespan in a variety of organisms ranging from worms to mice. The diet gained popularity in the 1980s when Roy Walford and Richard Weindruch managed to extend the lifespan of adult mice successfully for the first time [1]. And then later in 2004,…
The battle to hold back signs of skin aging is something shared by millions of people. All of us go through it, with the first signs usually showing up as early as 25 for many people. Some of us even spend hundreds per year on fancy cosmetics that only have a modest effect. But what…
Starting a calorie restriction diet could possibly be the best thing you can do for your health and longevity, but it’s not the easiest thing the world for most people. Only those with a high level of discipline, determination, and belief that it works have been able to stick it out long term. People who…
This study on calorie restriction in the grey mouse lemur primate came as a surprise. For 10-years, researchers at CNRS and the French National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), as well as other teams, were studying the effect of long-term caloric restriction starting from early adulthood. Calorie restriction has long been known to reduce the…
There are many centenarians in the UK, but Fauja stands out from the rest. When he was over 100 years old he was able to run the London Marathon! An amazing accomplishment at any age, but even more so for someone who has been alive for over a century. He holds many different records for…