The Longevity Solution Quotes

“Green tea promotes long-term weight loss by increasing basal metabolic rate, improving glucose uptake by muscle, and enhancing fat-burning in the liver and muscle.18”
― Dr. James DiNicolantonio, The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life

“During calorie restriction and fasting, blood glucose and insulin levels decline precipitously.18 Lower insulin signaling decreases growth signaling but extends life span in several species of animals.19”
― Dr. James DiNicolantonio, The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life

“Calorie restriction is the only non-pharmacological method of consistently extending life span and protecting against many age-related diseases.”
― Dr. James DiNicolantonio, The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life

“Calorie restriction extends the life span of every organism so far tested, including yeast, worms, flies, rodents, and monkeys. It also slows or even prevents age-related diseases, including dementia, diabetes, cardiovascular and coronary disease, neurodegenerative disorders, and several types of cancer.”
― Dr. James DiNicolantonio, The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life

“Actually, among life-extension practices, perhaps the best described is calorie restriction, with animal studies dating back many decades. Calorie restriction (CR) with adequate nutrition is perhaps the most effective antiaging intervention currently known.”
― Dr. James DiNicolantonio, The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life

“To the gene, however, faster aging is irrelevant, because aging and death generally occur long after reproduction. If the animal has offspring, the gene will survive even after the individual animal perishes. Evolution requires constant renewal, and longevity is a deterrent to this goal, so it can be considered somewhat “unnatural.” The gene “rejuvenates” itself by letting an older individual die and renewing itself in that person’s children. Evolution favors constant renewal over longevity.”
― Jason Fung, The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life

“The high glucose stimulates insulin and promotes growth at the expense of a decreased life span. In humans, high insulin levels and insulin resistance, which are common in aging, have been consistently linked to increased risk of many age-related diseases, including cancer and heart disease.”
― Dr. James DiNicolantonio, The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life

“Reducing insulin (by lowering calories, but more specifically reducing refined grains and sugar), lowering mTOR (by reducing animal protein and using more plant proteins), and activating AMPK (by lowering calories) have all been linked to longevity.”
― Dr. James DiNicolantonio, The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life

“Both FIRKO and calorie-restricted mice have greatly reduced body fat, which suggests that less body fat might be the common denominator that extends life span.”
― Dr. James DiNicolantonio, The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life

“Initially, the descriptions of life extension with calorie restriction seem radical, but studies have confirmed the relationship many times over in multiple species.”
― Dr. James DiNicolantonio, The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life

“Researchers have generally used a 40 percent calorie restriction, but even a 10 percent calorie restriction in rats gives nearly the same benefits.3 A 10 percent calorie restriction increased life in these rats by about 15 percent, whereas animals restricted 40 percent lived about 20 percent longer. In 1942, researchers showed for the first time that calorie restriction in animals could prevent the development of cancer.”
― Dr. James DiNicolantonio, The Longevity Solution: Rediscovering Centuries-Old Secrets to a Healthy, Long Life