Can you cheat death with regular fasting?

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Life extension and anti aging products are becoming more and more popular ranging from diet protocols, to drugs, supplements, workouts and other medical therapies.

One of the biggest and most common claims of life extension comes from the benefit of intermittent fasting (up to 30-40 years life extension)

But how could we ever actually measure this? It would take at least an entire lifetime to know if it actually works.

The only way to prove if something actually works for life extension would be to study someone for their entire life (and a long one at that!) How could we ever do this?

It seems that life extension therapies or techniques aren’t something we could actually experiment or test just yet.

The best we can do is find centenarians (people who live to at least 100) and super centenarians (people who live to at least 110) and ask them how they did it!

John

P.S. If you want to hedge your bets and give intermittent fasting a try then I would always recommend Eat Stop Eat as the best way to test it out.

You've got to find the sweet spot

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What do drugs, exercise, alcohol, food, and stress have in common?

They all follow the principle of Hormesis

Hormesis is the concept that a given stress to your body has an amount that is too little, an amount that is too much, and an amount that is optimal.

Getting the most out of your health, fitness and diet efforts requires you to find the optimal level, or the ’sweet spot’.

In this podcast we’ll talk about hormesis and explain how it pertains to various parts of your lifestyle.

John

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We did a simple word association experiment on my blog the other day. Thanks to all  who participated. The point of the exercise was to examine our initial gut reaction to 10 of the most common words in the health and fitness industry.

Some words generated a neutral response while others were completely negative.

In today’s podcast we’ll discuss the results of the word association and what we think they might mean. Maybe it’ll get you thinking more about how these words are used to market products and what these words mean to you.

John

What a disaster!

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Brad and I were on a conference teleseminar with the FDA and realized that the definition of the words “healthy” and “healthful” are actually controlled to a large extent by the FDA.

It’s probably no surprise to you that there is some government involvement in these words as they get used to promote all kinds of products from food, to supplements, as well as drugs and exercise program and equipment.

But in order for a government organization to control the marketing use of a word they must first define that word…this is where their efforts fall woefully short of meeting the mark.

In reality there is no universal definition of the words “healthy” or “healthful”. This definition must be a personal one and one that matters to you.

In this podcast we’ll discuss the limitations of trying to define these words and how to come up with your own definition that works for your life.

John