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What if we’re all wrong? What if Paleo is good for health but bad (suboptimal) for lifespan?
Please excuse the overly broad and lengthy question.
What if how we are eating is good for health and makes you a happy Crossfitter or Movnatter, but is not optimal for lifespan? …
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Does having lots of sex shorten your lifespan?
Sex is a favored way to make babies.
There is some interplay between reproduction, repair, and longetivity. In fact, worms live much longer when food is scarce and they put a hold …
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Is Berkeley Wellness' attack on Paleo justified?
Berkeley Wellness just released an alert titled "A Prehistoric Diet".
It reads in part:
"Few of our Paleolithic forebears had heart disease or cancer--but that was because they r …
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Taking everything into account - what is your envisioned life expectancy?
Living the paleo life will hopefully put my on track for a long healthy life, which got me thinking - taking everything into account... what could that realistically be?
Starting w …
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Why are so many obsessed with Longevity?
I am into living the healthiest life I can, while I'm here. If it prolongs my life, so be it...but that isn't my goal. I am looking for intense quality not quantity.
I can't wr …
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longevity and the paleo diet
Can eating paleo modify our epi genome making us younger as we get older? in worm studies, caloric restriction reduces insulin to increase lifespan. In Paleo man carbohydrates and …
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Hack my 92 yo grandmother.
Recently my grandmother (I believe she's 92) got diagnosed with an iron deficiency (one of the nurses saw her skin color changed and they did a blood test). Apparently, they only d …
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If conventional wisdom about diet is so wrong why are more people living to be 100?
The BBC announced today that 1 in 5 people in the UK will live to be 100. They attribute this to better nutrition! Are they right or is it really to do with less people smoking, f …