Calorie Restriction

When starting calorie restriction it’s important that you go to your doctor to get various biomarkers measured. Things like weight, blood pressure, temperature, and also a number of blood tests which will guide you in your calorie restriction practice. A few things can now be tracked at home, but for tracking many calorie restriction biomarkers we still need to get tests done by professional lab testing. Do not skip this step – it will not only give you an idea of whether or not you’re in the “CR Zone”, but it will also help motivate you to try hard to achieve …

I’ve written about the benefits of fasting before and do recommend fasting on occasion to improve your health. As part of my healthy lifestyle, I fast at least one day per week, usually on the weekend. It’s become a routine now, and I don’t really find it that difficult. On my fasting day, I will drink a lot of green tea! Usually around 10 cups. Some people might have problems with drinking green tea on an empty stomach because of the high level of tannins. These tannins can cause nausea by irritating the stomach lining. To get the most out of …

I’ve talked a little about what makes people able to do calorie restriction for many years successfully, now there is a study that was published in April which confirms what I had believed. People who maintain CR for very long periods of time have psychologically distinct profiles compared to the average person. When the average person starts a diet, it’s not too long before they fall off and return to their previous habits. This doesn’t seem to be the case for people who adhere to a CR diet. When most people think of ‘going on a diet’, it’s not usually to …

I’ve come across a lot of diets over the last 10 years and many of them seem to miss out on important nutrients or have serious imbalances which can cause some health issues if maintained over a long time. When we judge whether or not a diet is working for us, we’ll usually just look at the physical changes in our body and not pay much attention to anything else. When eating a very low-calorie diet, you should make sure that you pay extra attention to the nutrients you are getting to avoid deficiencies. For calorie restriction to work, this …

People do short fasts and long fasts for many reasons. Some people claim that it helps to reduce the risk of developing many diseases and also that it helps to clean out toxins from the body. Some people also do it for spiritual and religious reasons. I’ve had quite a lot of experience with short fasts of about one to three days, but never more than this. Is there any benefit going beyond three days? In 2007, I experimented with fasting by consuming most of my calories early in the day and creating a cut-off point where I wouldn’t eat …

When people think of living a really long time, they might assume that these extra years would be spent in a state of decrepitude, where the person is not able to live independently and suffers from multiple health issues which significantly decrease their quality of life. Perhaps this misconception creates fear in peoples minds about living to old age? But in reality, for the majority of people who reach 100 years and beyond, their health has been superior to most people and their medical costs are only a fraction of what is normal for the average person. How can this be? …

The CRON Diet is known for significantly reducing the risk of disease and may even extend lifespan in humans. Joe has been practicing calorie restriction for many years and has taken part in studies to assess his health while on the diet. When Joe Cordell started the diet he lost a lot of weight and all of his health markers improved. He is as lean as he was when he was a teenager and he says that maintaining this diet makes him feel great! Luigi Fontana says that Joe’s diet has reduced his risk to ‘one in a million’ chance …

Since the 1980s, researchers have been conducting an experiment on rhesus monkeys by restricting their calories to see if a calorie restriction diet is beneficial for improving their health and longevity, as it does in other species such as yeast, worms, flies, spiders, rats, mice, dogs, cows, etc. Rhesus monkeys live around 27 years on average and are thought to be the most similar physiologically to humans  — so it’s believed the results would be translatable to humans. Pending the final results, I’ll go into what the current findings are and what they could mean for whether or not the work …

In this article, I’ll go into all of the things I’m currently doing to improve my health. Whether it be skincare, supplements or what I’m eating and drinking. Things can change often for me, depending on my research and how I’m feeling. If I feel that something is working for me, I’ll continue doing it, but if not I’ll try to experiment with new things and change things up a bit. Skin: I wash with Neutrogena gentle exfoliating face wash and then apply Skinceuticals CE + Ferulic Acid to my face (3 drops). I apply a product called ‘Physical Fusion UV …

Headaches can be really painful, but something that most of us will suffer from at some point. One thing that is never thought about a lot is how headaches could be connected with diet. It’s not something that most of us think about, other than say when we get dehydrated or we’re having withdrawals from caffeine. Something I haven’t really given much thought to until now, but I’ve only had one headache that lasted for a day in the past two years of eating healthy and being on a CR diet. Although I did initially have one long-lasting headache when …