As an Okinawan with multiple 100+ centenarians in my family. Pickled pigs feet, Oxtail soup, Fish heads, tons of fish. A lot of seaweed and stews. And the occasional sweet dessert on festivals. My grandfathers ate almost no carbs. Only from a limited amount of rice but that was it.
Im also okinawan and can confirm this as true my great grandpa is 101 and my great grandma is 98 and both eat mostly meat not carnivore or anything but predominately
@@stefanisilva2493people don't typically change their diets unless under extreme circumstances. If a 100+ year old is eating this way in the 2020s, s/he most likely also ate this way in the 1970s and even all the way back to the 1920s. Don't be intellectually dishonest.
@@ferraridav They actually do a lot based on food avaiability, economy etc. Is a very well known fact that non western cultures have been adopting a more industrialized diet since 1970, the whole world is increasing their calories comsumption per capta and now Asia Is increase their animal prpducts with more dairy. In 1980s in my country fast food was just avaiable at parties and just rich people could afford soda, candies and hamburger on their homes frsquently - now its part of most people's daily food.
Also, if you want a long life you should leave earth. According to cutting edge science EVERYONE who lives on this planet dies, so for a long life everyone should leave Earth. Staying here is a 100% death sentence.
Even if protein shortens your lifespan I feel like the deterioration of muscle as you get older would make you more prone to injury and also take longer to recover from said injuries, exhausting your body just as much. Quality of life is also important; I'd rather live to 80 but be fully in control of my mobility than to live to 90 but be bound to a hospital bed. My grandmother is 86 and can barely walk because her bones are so weak and she has almost no muscle.
When I worked at a grocery store in Fort Worth Texas called Central market. They were pushing the blue zone ideas. Japan often came up in the conversation. It never really seemed correct to me. Based off of observations I’ve taken. I know that diet clearly has a huge role in longevity. People like to often overlook the mindset and life style that’s involved with people that live past 100 years. Richard Overton at one point was the oldest living World War II survivor. He smoked 12 cigars per day, drink, four glasses of whiskey, and ate bacon and eggs every morning. he talked about the reason he has been so long is do too his slow, peaceful, stress-free life and being surrounded by loved ones. It is often the most overlooked when it comes to longevity. In my opinion.
Relating to that netflix series (that I didn't actually finish watching), the people being interviewed were always saying how their lifestyle is what's making them live as long as they do. Always staying active, surrounding themselves with friends and family, and in general trying to be happy and laughing. From what I remember, it felt like the interviewer was leading the interview to make the diet the focus in some instances.
Well, if you notice that politicians often get to live into their 90's, that's why. They don't have to stress over things like the people they're representing and most likely keep failing
Thank you for putting the truth out there! I used to live in Japan, in Hokkaido, famous for its dairy and seafood, plus jingisukan (mutton) and soup curry. I’m sick of vegans trying to use Japan as an example! 😤
It’s pretty funny to me. I’m mixed race Japanese and I’ve always been amused by this because Japanese people eat a lot of meat, and I think more eggs per capita than almost any other country. They just also eat vegetables too. My Japanese grandmother always stressed - meat is ok, but make sure your plate is colorful.
@@_blank-_I literally see Japanese culinary channel discussing beef meat rice bowl (and compare it with other places or other meats) just a while ago. It's not the only ones. Look up gyudon and katsudon. Don't be ignorant.
0:23: 🥔 The Okinawans' high carb diet, mainly consisting of sweet potatoes, may contribute to their long lifespan. 2:56: 🐷 Okinawan food is centered around pork, which was historically a significant part of their diet and helped contribute to their longevity. 5:16: 💪 Protein consumption and exercise stimulate muscle growth, which is important for longevity and preventing muscle wasting in older adults. 7:36: 💪 Exercise is highly beneficial for overall health, reducing the risk of various diseases and enhancing learning and memory. 10:04: 🍖 Contrary to popular belief, consuming more meat is associated with higher life expectancy in Blue Zone regions. Recap by Tammy AI
@@sillymesilly i had an assignment back in college regarding protein consumption and its effect on health. Positive and negative both. So I'm not gonna too much in in details of my project but the study that we found that said high protein diet is harmful was only done one regular people with regular life. The study proved that high protein diet may overload kidneys cause then kidneys have to process more protein without utilising it. And hence neutralizing all that extra protein tires off kidneys and may lead to certain type of cancers...... BUT!!! The regular people was the keyword. Since they were not having enough physical activity or enough muscle stimulation, there was no need to extra protein for their body. So it's not rocket science. If you're going to the gym or living a life where you're using your muscles or having an active physical lifestyle then extra protein will actually help you. Cause other organs like gut and liver will metabolise that protein. Another thing about all those Japanese study is, majority of the subjects were farmers. So they were doing vigorous physical activity and hence more protein in their diet was usefull instead of harmful. P.s- I know I said I won't get into much details but.... whatever 🗿
I was very naïve and thought that Asian diets were mostly vegetarian. Lots of rice and lots of veggies. Then a friend of mine went to China and had a very difficult time finding vegetarian meals. It surprised me. I admit, I knew nothing I was making assumptions.
I lived in Japan for a decade. The best was watch white lady co-works go into restaurants and say they were vegetarian. The staff was usually baffled. THere was very little vegan about anything in their restaurants. In Inzakaya's their choices would be down to beer, french fries, and if they were luck some fried tofu or eggplant. Such a healthy diet. These chicks were also the most sickly people you would ever met, especially in winter. Protein is the basis for your immune system
Asia is a massive place. You could find regions where vegetarianism is commonplace, but it can vary even by specific regions in a country. South Asia tends more towards veganism as a lifestyle choice, and poorer regions tend to eat less meat in general.
east Asian countries are highy non vegetarian ones whereas south Asian countries specially India has the largest vegetarian population and a wide variety of veg cuisine..
Vegetarianism in India, not veganism. The other countries in South Asia like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal are not into veganism/vegetarianism@@todo9633
My grandparents were farmers who survived the Great Depression and ww2. They absolutely prized animal foods of every kind. Bone marrow, collagen, offal, milk and eggs, as well as muscle meats. My parents knew how to butcher animals, as well as foraging and growing gardens. As a youngster in the 70’s, I helped my family butcher chickens for the family freezer. I knew exactly where my food came from. We had milk delivered to our door by a local farmer. We left out a bucket with a lid plus money, he would fill the bucket with milk. My mum also had a job with a local bakery. So, quite often, our “dessert” consisted of fresh bread, homemade blackberry jam and fresh cream.
This is the biggest factor. My parents grew up in a rural community and they learned from a young age how to work with farm animals and agriculture. Food used to be natural and homemade, simple, real. You could trace where every ingredient came from. Now it's ultra processed and engineered to be as cheap as possible. Half of everything we eat is synthetic chemicals. No wonder all sorts of health problems have increased over the decades. People need to eat real food, and learn how to cook themselves. I'd go as far as to say that learning how to work with animals, feed, clean, butcher, skin them and have the knowledge in how to maintain a farm and your own sources of meats and vegetables is an absolutely golden set of skills that my generation doesn't have. I aspire one day to learn those skills and maybe build a remote independent home for myself and my family where I can grow everything I eat myself.
I think socializing is probably one of the most important factors to living longer . All cultures with high levels centenarians have this in common and a lot of them still drink alcohol
I dont think that correct really... say to an introvert "you must socialize" and he will die :-), tell that to an extrovert and he will be HAPPY... Happiness is the key i believe... how you get there probably doesnt really matter... Hell you might have a successful serial killer that lives for ever - because he does what makes him happy - killing... lol :-) (a joke at the end, but you get the point)
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I completely forgot about him, he popped up in my subscription feed and I wish he didn't. His video denying the link between meat and climate change was filled with fallacies and half truths. This video too. He talks about Okinawans' longevity but they're 26th in Japan according to him so they aren't really the best. As he said, Japan overall has a great longevity but they eat half as much meat as Westerners so it's not really an argument in favor of meat consumption. There are better channels out there that aren't obvious marketing from big agrobusiness. It's easy to *look* credible by partially quoting random studies and motion design, doesn't mean it's real though.
It’s well studied that supplementing creatine (which occurs naturally in animal protein) helps reduce or eliminate muscular dystrophy. So it goes to show that simply eating protein and moving about moderately will stave off some muscle wasting and frailty in old age.
I don't care about living longer, I care about living healthier. I've done a lot of research to improve my own understanding of diet and nutrition and for me, with my own health problems, it's clear that a high protein low carb diet is better.
it seems that the lower carbs intake the better... 😲🤷♂️ less carbs means: less inflammation, lower risks of autoimmune diseases, less damage of brain, heart and other organs, it's better for teeth and gums, worse for parasites and candida... and it's worse for cancer (which feeds/survives on carbs).. so benefits of reducing or eliminating carbs are plentiful... 👍💪💥😁
It's not just protein. For example, iron absortion is really diferent if it's from meat or from vegetables. Vegetables have non-heme iron, which is difficult to absorb, and meat have heme iron, easily absorbed. Let’s compare : We absorb just 1.7% of the iron from Spinach, which means that out of 100 grams (2.6 mg iron content) you would absorb a measly 0.04 milligrams. Likewise, for the sirloin we absorb about 20%, which means that 0.5 milligrams were absorbed per the same serving size (2.5 mg iron content). 12 times more, and it’s hard to eat 100 grams of spinach, but the sirloin is a cinch. And we aren’t even comparing a high iron content thing like liver, from which you absorb 25 times more from the same serving size. And iron is also important for muscle growth
@@NICHS1994 yes, maybe. However, this isn't a concern, given that studies indicate that up to 30% or 40% of the female population may be deficient in iron, depending on the country. Furthermore, the thresholds used to diagnose someone with iron deficiency are quite low and may not be accurate. I say this because recent research suggests that we may require more iron than these thresholds indicate. This issue is particularly noticeable in conditions like Willis-Ekbom disease, which is often misdiagnosed. With this condition, symptoms can begin to develop when ferritin levels are below 50 ng/ml, whereas many medical institutions and studies only express concern when levels drop below 20 ng/ml or even 12 ng/ml for women. Therefore, the prevalence of iron deficiency in the population may be even higher than initially thought.
Thank you for being my go-to source for debunking the many pieces of misinformation about general health that are out there. Whenever I discuss these topics with others, I often just send them one of your informative videos to cut through the nonsense. Keep up the great work! I truly appreciate your efforts.
I always sensed they were lying and I always wanted to meet someone from Okinawa to ask about their experiences. There was just no way those 95+ year olds are out there chopping trees without adequate protein throughout their life.
We eat mainly meat speciffically pork and seafood like salmon and squid and we cook with butter and lard, we also eat lots of seaweed goya and tofu and tropical fruits but the bulk of the calories is animal fat and protein
@@АндрейЕрмилов-х8пeat meat and protein first, then sugar in sweat potato is not going to be absorbed as fast as it goes in first. It’s the trick to keep your glucose level stable.
@@stsk1061 Protein does not turn into energy.. You LITERALLY cannot eat too much protein. The body is finetuned to signal to the brain precisely when it has had its' fill.
Sadly I don't remember where I heard that but apparently, when it comes to Sardinia (one of the blue zones) there is a significant difference between people who've lived most of their lives on the coast vs. people who've lived inland, in the mountainous regions. The people in the inland have a longer life expectancy than the people on the coasts. They hypothesized that this might be due to the physical exercise people get going up the steep hills and mountains on a regular basis. Additionally, sheep dairy and meat were an important part of their diet.
Do the experiment yourself: do a week or two of avoiding protein and a week or two where you eat a ton of protein. I did this and the latter made me feel much better.
A mí también me ha sentado muchísimo mejor comer proteína de 90 a 120 g por día, incluso, como el paper lo afirma, en la memoria, el aprendizaje y -mucho- el estado de ánimo. Obviamente, en la fabricación de masa muscular.
did you track actual grams per day? grams per pound of body weight? anecdotal hearsay in this day and age won't pass the sniff test anymore. SCIENCE! B!
I'm not advocating for either diet but the logic of protein restriction is not for feeling better in the short term but rather for longevity. You can equivalently apply your logic by saying "smoke a cigarette every day for a week vs not smoking, see which one feels better".
@@williamtomkiel8215 what do you want data for? I am pointing out that OP is saying a high protein diet will make you feel better, while advocates of a low protein diet for longevity are not arguing otherwise.
There is more to this than just activation of mTOR, there are 2 different types of mTOR, complex 1 and complex 2, both serve quite different functions. Complex 1 regulates the immune system whereas complex 2 regulates muscle growth (among many other bodily functions). Protein and insulin will stimulate both. The goal is to actually balance the two to increase longevity as you ideally don’t want an overactive immune system, but on the other hand you want to generally maximise muscle synthesis. One of the most profound medications to increase longevity is an mTOR complex 1 inhibitor (rapamycin) which functions to primarily regulate the immune system. For longevity, mTOR needs to be switched on and off at the right times, it’s about maintaining sensitivity. The best protocol for this switching and regulating sensitivity is to intermittently take rapamycin whilst also maintaining a high protein diet, this allows mTORC2 to be turned on for muscle synthesis, whilst allowing mTORC1 to be kept down-regulated to prevent immune system over-stimulation.
No one is saying that people should eat zero protein. Amino acids being essential to bodily processes doesn't mean that eating excess quantities of protein has additional benefits.
An important point that was left out was the fact they had a food shortage. In other words they were hungry often, which in my opinion is the real reason why they lived so long rather than limiting protein... protein is found in many great foods but the key is eating ONLY WHEN your ACTUALLY hungry rather than eating simply because you FEEL like it...
After almost 20 years of eating mostly vegetarian (my Boyfriend is vegetarian), I had gained about 50kg and my health went south. Then I learned about fasting, Low Carb, Keto and so on and started prioritizing Protein as much as I can. The result from only increasing the protein was amazing, without doing more excercise I am much stronger than I was before.
I loved how you schooled Sinclair on two obvious facts he should have known: that mTOR is activated by so many things, not just protein, and that the Okinawa diet that he cited was from 1949. Insanity!
@@tonyman187 As soon as their economy recovered to the point that meat was again available, they went back to eating meat. They were only eating plants without meat because they had no meat. The battle for Okinawa killed almost all of the pigs and many Okinawans along with most of the Japanese soldiers and quite a few Americans.
As a Coach of Yoga, Fitness and Alternative Therapies as well as once hardcore vegetarian for decades, turned omnivorous after certain research, experimentation and studies, I agree with you mostly. However for longevity you need both Mtor to build muscles and autophagy to discard dead cells to avoid aging, ailments and fragility.
Including enough quality protein sources in your diet strengthens your collagen levels and therefore makes your skin firmer and less prone to wrinkles.
Stopping at 4:53 to say why wouldn't want want to be less strong and less healthy now just so we can tag on a few more years? I've been carnivore for two years and I'll tell you that my focus is on being healthy and strong now. Not that I really believe they're right about high protein lessening my lifespan, but even if I was convinced they were right I would keep eating carnivore because it's hands down how I feel my best.
Exactly, I think the no. 1 concern should be quality of life rather than longevity. They often go hand in hand, but if I had to choose between quality of life and getting a few more awful years at the tail end of my life, I'd rather have the former.
I personally think the Okinawa lived so long because they all collectively made it through an extremely difficult situation and were probably able to live in long term communal harmony because of this, reducing their stress thus increasing their lifespan.
gotta factor in that that okinawa is a super chilled out relaxed island, nice weather, nice scenery, laid back population = a way smaller score of the stress scale for sure *there is also studies about people who lived through the depression era and were extremely restricted with their nutritional intake during that period but actually became stronger as a result of the experience and went on to live longer than usual lifespans.. kind of makes sense to me, i remember seeing older people who had been through all of that growing up and was always amazed at their vigor in old age, probably worth noting also that they grew up in a time of practically no processed fast foods and had pretty basic diets for the most part, the whole meat and three veg dinner was the norm when i was a kid growing up around my grand parents etc, the mass proliferation of mass processed every thing hadnt really taken over yet
Absolutely. People underestimate the power of environment and the body-mind connection that has been proven over and over again. Illness and health is not something that is purely, and in an absolutist sense solely physiological. Dr. Gabor Mate speaks about this understood relationship. I think you're on the ball.
it's definitely related to how much meat they eat but hot weather and low stress does to help. Alot of old person diseases we're used to are kindly just deficiencies in animal nutrients and older people actually need more food to combat the reduced effectiveness of their cell machinery
As a very busy med student, I've noticed I haven't been getting enough protein and started drinking protein shakes recently. My energy levels, mood, strength and sleep quality skyrocketed. I can't imagine saying low protein is better for you cause it clearly isn't. Stress plays a huge role in shortening the lifespan, we should take care of ourselves both mentally and physically so it doesn't matter if it activates the mTOR pathway as it helps with stress.
Something i have always theoriezed about longetivity was the cycling between starvation periods and feasting periods. I read one study showing that a long period of nutrietional deficiency (not starvation) increased mitochondria concentration into enlogated and hyper effecient forms. Then when you returned to normal feeding or a small amount of over feeding, those mitochondria can better utilize the incomeing food and produce extra atp for cellular repair. The key is not over feeding for too long otherwise the mitochondria become over burden and will split appart into smaller, round shaped, increasing the intracellular acid profile which can destabilize sensitive protiens.
BEST VIDEO YET! Thank you for addressing this issue. I followed Dr Sinclair for years and it’s such a strange feeling to realize I no longer share his views on animal protein and longevity. Also the Okinawan diet and Blue Zones thing. Thank you so much for clarifying these points!
Hong Kong has had the highest meat consumption in the world and also the longevity to match. Eat more meat to live longer, and ignore the mass media anti-carnivore hype.
I think there's an oversight in the case of okinawans... I think that because of the fact that their diet was mostly sweet potatoes and other vegetables for probably long after the postwar period and that the sweet potatoes are high in potassium that this plays a vital role since potassium is key to reducing risk from cardiovascular diseases. I believe that as long as you have a healthy cardiovascular system the body can go for a long time. Edit: Also if you look into nutritional data for meat you will see that it is very high in potassium
Just a quick thought: Protein is expensive. The prefectures in Japan that eat more protein probably have an higher economic standing than the ones that eat less protein. Research shows, that people with an middle to high economic standing lives longer than people with less money. So, is it actually mainly the high protein intake that makes them live longer, or the general benefits of having enough money? I hope it made sense, English is not my first language:)
Could be an interplay of both? I wonder what is the distribution of high protein regions and high income regions crossed with highest life expectancy regions. Could there be some regions that live longer on less protein but are richer? This is fun to think about!
@@pacotaco1246To your last question: probably not. It’s almost universal: wherever there is an excess of resources, there is a predominance of red meat in the diet. This is true in places like India where many people revere cows. Wealthier people eat it + lamb, and white meat like chicken much more frequently than do poor people cannot afford meat
Thank you for exploring this. I've always found Sinclair's claims of needing to avoid protein for longevity to be highly suspect and counter intuitive.
My dad is Mediterranean and still actively managing a business and mobile at 83. The staples of his diet (in the U.S.) are: fish, eggs, steak, broccoli, oatmeal, milk, and fruit.
I found this on the CNBC website. It fits best with what we learned at University about why Okinawans lived longer. That is, they practice a kind of fasting, or they don't overeat. They undereat. "If you’ve ever been lucky enough to eat with an Okinawan elder, you’ve invariably heard them intone a Confucian-inspired phrase before beginning the meal: “Hara hachi bu” - a reminder to stop eating when their stomachs are 80% full." However, some French people are also long lived eating a high fat diet, but also having a sress free lifestyle.
French people eat a lot of animal fats and proteins. Offer a french some margarine and he'll probably deport you himself. Yes, stress is a big factor in longevity, but this video focuses mainly on food intake.
Hey Joseph, on the topic of protein would you consider making a video on insect protein, monocrop agriculture used to feed them, indigestibility of chitin and such? I think itd make for an interesting video
I think the lack of calories is the primary factor here though. Feed those same people a protein instead of bread and (my assumption is) they'll turn out exactly the same. Fasting , and simply not eating a lot, is the key to longevity.
Yeah but that's a few years more than most people of the time. There are meta-studies of modern famine survivors available that show it's a common factor, no matter the era or location. Survivors of poverty and famine (not people who stay in those situations their whole lives, they have shorter life-spans, but people who went on to live a healthy life after experiencing long-term hunger) have a nominally longer lifespan than their economic counterparts who never had to go hungry@@Metqa That's something I looked into a few years ago, but I think there's a significant amount of evidence in general for the physiological benefits of fasting. The Irish potato famine is one that was looked at in those studies and they had the same benefits despite their primary dietary carb being the missing ingredient from their diet. They survived primarily on meats and dairy, plus whatever they could afford in grain/starch.
I love soki soba for all its fatty, salty goodness but as delicious as Okinawan food is, the culture is just so much more chill than my local Yamato culture. It’s like that Bobby McFerrin song come to life. The rest of the world could learn a lot from not only what Okinawan people eat but how they live.🤟✌️
If you were to gather 100 random individuals, one would inevitably outlive the rest. But here's the kicker: The likelihood of that person having deliberately set out to be the last one standing is minuscule at best. Despite this, we scrutinize their lifestyle and habits as if they've uncovered the secret formula for longevity, even though chance plays the pivotal role in determining the last survivor.
My Japanese grandparents lived until 103, 99, 95, and 88 in Nagano Prefecture. In the past, Nagano had a shorter lifespan, but it now enjoys longevity in Japan after the city promoted a diet with less salt and more vegetables. My grandparents ate a lot of vegetables due to their involvement in agriculture (of course, they also consumed fish and meat). I think a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet is important, but a balanced diet, including plenty of vegetables, is the best.
Be careful not to conflate recent changes in diet or policies, with outcomes that are more dependent on events that happened over several decades (life-time diet, physical activity, strong social bonds, and just plain old genetics). People like to look at very recent things, and extrapolate that what we see happening today, must be because of that - often things are happening due to longer-lasting trends. It's easy to be myopic when analyzing these things. Life expectancy can be influenced strongly (negatively) simply at birth and in those crucial early years of development.
Eating more of something generally involves eating less of something else, so is the health improvement due to the increase of (a) or the decrease of (b)?
Sinclair's viewpoint is not contradictory to the arguments you have made in this video. mTOR activation is associated with short term health benefits and feeling of wellbeing. In terms of self reported outcomes and short to medium term studies lasting less than 10 years (which is the vast majority of studies), increased mTOR activation will be favoured. However, in animal studies (on the scale infeasible in humans), mTOR restriction has been demonstrated to markedly improve longevity. It is true that mTOR is activated by factors other than protein. You have mentioned insulin and exercise as two examples. However excess production of insulin is already associated with worse health outcomes. It is beyond dispute that restriction of total caloric intake has positive association with longevity. As for exercise, I believe it has vast health benefits independent of mTOR activation such as cellular autophagy which outweighs any longevity reduction caused by mTOR activation. Lastly, sarcopenia is a killer in elderly people. However if you are in your 20s or 30s it is not a consideration or any argument that you should have huge muscles.
Loved the video! 😄 But, please, could you add sources? 🙏 It makes it easier to keep learning about the subject and evaluate where the information is coming from.
"Yeah, you'll feel a lot healthier, happier and more energized now, but you will live less." - oh this argument.. even if it was true, I'd rather live better than longer.
Thank you I needed this video because I was doing carnivore but then for a week I’ve transitioned over to a David Sinclair style vegan diet and honestly it had me feeling like crap. This video made me come back to my senses.
They actually also found Okinawan centenarians actually ate seafood several times a week There diet is more processed now I really think how active their lifestyles and low stress and communal they made the society contributed more to their longevity
I was afraid protein equated to faster aging. Even while bodybuilding, I kept protein at a specific max. Truth be told, I had anxiety about it. This video really made things clearer. Thank you.
my great grandma drank sherry and smoked everday and lived to 98. my other great grandma lived to 102 and could still walk and talk lucidly until 99 i remember her eating waffles with cream and she drank coffee everyday. its just genetic theres really no secret.
How about people actually lived off the land, and worked that same land. Which is not the same as buying that same processed, industrially farmed food. You are missing the key link, having that community connection to your food source. Physical work, and consistency in all of those things is what matters.
Thank you for making this video. I hope it reaches many people. I was ill with an unknown autoimmune condition for years and was being put on more and more medication. When I had to start injecting myself in addition to experiencing side effects, that's when I decided this was enough. I looked into the one thing not a single so-called medical expert looked into, my diet. I discovered the Carnivore diet and jumped into it. It was rough at first, but 6 months later, I'm feeling better than I ever have, and I have strength again. Even running, something I used to hate, doesn't feel like torture simply feels like a normal effort. From my experience and research, I know for a fact now that most people's suffering is caused by a lack of meat and, more specifically, red meat in their diet. I'm off all my meds, and even my doctors can't deny the results, and I never told them about the change in diet.
I fell is just irresponsible to you not mentioning diet changes, it's your health the doctor takes care of not theirs and the more information you withdraw the more unlikely they will be to properly diagnose and help you
Looking at 116-Year-Old Italian Woman Named World’s Oldest Living Person by Guinness Emma Martina Luigia Morano back in 2016. Her Diet consist of three eggs per day (two raw, one cooked), fresh Italian pasta and a dish of raw meat. Yes, a dish of raw meat.
Okinawa prefecture currently has the highest obesity rate in Japan at 45.2%. And Okinawa now had the highest mortality rate for people under 65 y/o. Before WWII, Okinawa residents primarily consumed high-fiber foods like vegetables and sweet potatoes. But after the war, they shifted to high-calorie, high-fat diets. As a result, in 2010, Okinawa had the highest mortality rate for under 65 y/o people nationwide. Okinawa is not a prefecture of longevity any more. Okinawa faces significant health challenges.
Every single one of the centarians I've seen interviewed had average to high meat or fish consumption. Not all meat is alike and the reduction in offal dishes and stews likely accounts for many of these reductions.
thank you for thinking outside the box :) I questioned this when I heard of it, but I was too lazy to research it. thx so much. It makes sense that data from 1949 in Japan is questionable because of WW2
I used to work in one of the Blue Zone in the world, LOMA LINDA CALIFORNIA. The long-living people in this area are Seventh Day Adventists and they are almost all vegetarians. These people attribute their long lives to their religion, vegetarianism, exercise, positivity, and sense of community. There is nearly no meat in their diet.
@@wenlambotomy6231 yeah because you can not swallow enough protein and calories in less than that... Great balance would also be to follow our bodies design, and go wild eating (and working out) throughout the day, and then stop consuming food, or at least any carbs after the sun settles.
@@wenlambotomy6231 Show the evidence. Catabolising precious muscle mass in just 16 hours of no food, makes absolutely no sense from evolutionary pov. Especially when we have fat exactly for that reason.
I’ve been eating one meal a day (22-23 fast) for 4 years and have put on a respectable amount of muscle, more than I ever did when I was younger and eating 3-5 times a day. And the internet is full of people with the same experience. I can eat 120-150 grams of protein in 1 meal pretty easily. It takes a month or two to fully adapt, but after that your body expects it. I’ve never felt it looked better 🤷🏻♂️
Sweet potatoes of course contain preformed Vitamin A in parallel with beta carotene precurors. Vitamin A deficiency, along with deficiencies of iron and Vitamin D, are the most widespread globally. I definitely recommend conducting a blood serum test in order to determine your nutritional status. I dare say it saved my life (vitamin D.) The primary issue with carbohydrate diets is that they deplete core nutrients and anti-oxidants necessary for nominal body operation. Okinawans counter the diet rich in rice and other grains by consuming plenty of vegetables and quality red meat, pickled or otherwise, which prevent depletion of both minerals such as iron, zinc and copper, and vitamins.
Thank you for clearing this data point that stood up as a sore thumb from all the data i have collected so far. And thank you for pointing us to a healthier future.
Once scientists spend decades developing their own theories, they run with them and it's really up to outside observers to see what does and doesn't make sense for themselves especially, because such scientists have strong positions and disagree with the others.
Yes, not for nothing but when it was mentioned in the video that meat is easy to digest (with a picture of beef) I had to remind myself to take in the info, but come up with my own conclusions. I will keep researching this, but I don't believe meat is easy to digest. i think the opposite is true
I LOVE your videos and content choice. So valuable. I'm very thankful that you convey this information in such a well-presented manner. Recovering ex-vegan (9 years on plants only). My health has improved so much, and I have partly you to thank for guiding me back to a human diet.
Thanks a lot for this. I've known about this guy (mTOR) for a long time and was my last concern on higher protein intake for quite some time. Stay Healthy
Thank you for this video. I have heard so much about Okinawa being a blue zone because of sweet potatoes, but digging deeper into it, it doesn't make sense.
I am from mainland Greece, where I am from there are 3 groups of Greeks: Pontics, natives and Vlachs. Pontics only came recently in the region and live up to their mid 80s usually. On the other hand natives and vlachs live up to their 90s very often and the one consistent difference between the 3 groups is that vlachs and natives eat a lot more meat such as lamb. You won't find studies about different groups of Greeks because the government makes it hard to separate them from each other but I remember how pontics talk about 80s as a normal age to die while vlachs (my ethnic group) would call the 80 year olds young.
But what were they eating over their *whole* life? The diet you eat *now* is irrelevant. These effects happen very slowly - multiple decades. And what is a "lot more" meat? It might still be a small amount compared to western diets.
@@benyaminewanganyahu well most of them immediately started eating a lot of meat in the traditional diet the moment the WW2 famine ended. And by a lot of meat I mean that half a kilo or more of meat is common in our meals and even with relatively vegetable based foods we add meat if we can. We have vegetables and legumes but we eat a lot of meat and dairy.
@@vasilistheocharis164 what you're eating now isn't really relevant right now (it will be if you reach 100). You seem to be assuming that a lot then was the same amount of meat as now. You could ask the old folks how much they ate from 1960 to 1990.
@@benyaminewanganyahu what we eat now is almost the same as what they ate back then only with less bread as they would eat a lot of bread during periods with a lot of field work. Not a low carb diet, just a diet high in meat. Old people aren't shy to talk about what and how they used to eat and I already know that, which is why I talk about it as though the then and the now were the same. Edit: my use on the present tense in the first reply was also used to refer to us as an group overall in the history not just the exact present time.
Low protein with pasta, cakes, bread, cookies, cereal and grains; what else would you expect? You're suppose to eat fruits and vegetables, not highly processed imitation foods.
I started a high protein and low/ next to no carb diet mixed with intermittent fasting for two month. Never felt better in my life. For the first time in my life I feel young and it’s like I’m 4-5 years younger now. I know what’s is better for me!
Lol, I see these Vietnamese dudes that are like 100 years old out and about here in Ho Chi Minh. All they eat is noodles or Pho with 3 paper thin slices of meat which probably isnt even 8 gram of protein. Im a low carb high protein (low fat) eater. This is nearly impossible to get with Vietnamese cuisine as its literally upside down, high carb, high fat, super low to small amounts of protein. Most of their meat is bones, skin or high fat. Getting a lean hunk of meat or a full chicken breast is next to impossible here unless you cook it yourself. With that type of food, I cant wrap my head around it. They stay super lean despite that high carb high fat diet. Im convinced they have this gene that simply discards fat and carbs because it flies in the face of all "caloric theories" . Many of them are quite sedentary and don't do much. I personally have several friends at work who eat the same portion and the same amount of food (its from the same cafeteria , and portions are exactly the same) I gained 4KG the same month.
You are right and it's much more complex than any of these youtubers say it is. Also what matters is what they are eating their whole life not just today.
Ive always been into some type of exercise and always been a large meat eater. While ive certainly eaten many carbs and sugar in my life, i definitely eat way more meat. Ive looked like im in my early 20s since i was 18 (was mostly the beard), and still look like that now at almost 30. Im positive the meat + excercise is what is keeping me in a young state.
I wish i could get LMNT, but it only goes to canada and america. As a belgian wanting to lower my insuline resistance and power up my muscles. But youre amazing and thank you so much for everything.
Actually, Canada is *in* _America_ . 🌎 That said, there are those neighbouring people that, oddly, really got into the strange habit of confusing their country with a whole continent.
Dr Valter Longo, who you favourably cited before, recommends eating mostly vegan diet (fish 1-2 times a week) and increasing protein as you age in his book *The Longevity Diet*
I would be absolutely ill and week eating anything close to a vegan diet. I've been carnivore for two years (meat, fish, eggs, and cheese only, nothing else) and it has completely turned my health around. I feel better now at 51 than I did in my 30s.
