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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The new expedition begins! Costa Rica is a longevity hotspot in the world where lots of people reach old age in good health. It is one of 5 areas in the world where lots of people live to 100 due to their lifestyle habits. Check out this video on Costa Rica on their longevity! 1…