To live beyond 100, you need to eat a lot less: ideas from an Italian expert on aging
Valter Longo, who wants to live to 120 or 130 years in good health, sees the key to longevity in diet (legumes and fish) and false fasting.
Most members of the group subscribed to a live-fast-die-young lifestyle. But while they took part in the drinking and drug use endemic to the 1990s grunge scene after gigs at the Whiskey a Go Go, the Roxy and other West Coast clubs, the band's guitarist , Valter Longo, an Italian doctor obsessed with nutrition, began to sing. student, struggling with a long-standing addiction to longevity.
Today, decades after Dr. Longo abandoned his grunge-era band, DOT, for a career in biochemistry, the Italian professor with his rock hair and his lab coat, he is at the crossroads of Italian obsessions with food and aging.
"For studying aging, Italy is simply incredible," said Dr. Longo, a youthful 56, in the lab he runs at a cancer institute in Milan, where he will speak at a conference on aging later this month. Italy has one of the oldest populations in the world, with multiple pockets of centenarians that appeal to researchers looking for the fountain of youth. “It’s nirvana.”
Dr. Longo, who is also a professor of gerontology and director of the U.S.C. The Longevity Institute of California has long advocated living longer and better by eating light Italian food, one of Road to Perpetual Wellville's theories on how to stay youthful in a field that is itself still in its adolescence .
In addition to identifying genes that regulate aging, he created a plant- and nut-based diet with supplements and kale crackers that mimics fasting to, he claims, allow cells to rid themselves of harmful baggage and rejuvenate themselves, without the downside of starving. He patented and sold his ProLon diet kits; published bestselling books (“The Longevity Diet”); and has been called an influential “fasting evangelist” by Time magazine.
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Valter Longo, who wants to live to 120 or 130 years in good health, sees the key to longevity in diet (legumes and fish) and false fasting.
Most members of the group subscribed to a live-fast-die-young lifestyle. But while they took part in the drinking and drug use endemic to the 1990s grunge scene after gigs at the Whiskey a Go Go, the Roxy and other West Coast clubs, the band's guitarist , Valter Longo, an Italian doctor obsessed with nutrition, began to sing. student, struggling with a long-standing addiction to longevity.
Today, decades after Dr. Longo abandoned his grunge-era band, DOT, for a career in biochemistry, the Italian professor with his rock hair and his lab coat, he is at the crossroads of Italian obsessions with food and aging.
"For studying aging, Italy is simply incredible," said Dr. Longo, a youthful 56, in the lab he runs at a cancer institute in Milan, where he will speak at a conference on aging later this month. Italy has one of the oldest populations in the world, with multiple pockets of centenarians that appeal to researchers looking for the fountain of youth. “It’s nirvana.”
Dr. Longo, who is also a professor of gerontology and director of the U.S.C. The Longevity Institute of California has long advocated living longer and better by eating light Italian food, one of Road to Perpetual Wellville's theories on how to stay youthful in a field that is itself still in its adolescence .
In addition to identifying genes that regulate aging, he created a plant- and nut-based diet with supplements and kale crackers that mimics fasting to, he claims, allow cells to rid themselves of harmful baggage and rejuvenate themselves, without the downside of starving. He patented and sold his ProLon diet kits; published bestselling books (“The Longevity Diet”); and has been called an influential “fasting evangelist” by Time magazine.
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