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Longevity Diet: Do you want to remain young for a long time? If your answer is yes, then this article can prove to be very helpful for you. Here you can know about some such dietary principles, with the help of which a 78-year-old doctor has reduced his age by 20 years.
Dr. Michael Roizen, anesthesiologist and chief wellness officer at the Cleveland Clinic, is 78 years old. But his biological age is approximately 56. This means that his risk of death and/or age-related chronic diseases is higher than that of a healthy person 20 years younger.
The doctor has shared the information about reversing his age with Business Insider. The doctor claims that he has reduced his age by 20 years. His claim is definitely surprising, but his diet habits are quite interesting. Let us know which are the 4 food rules that the doctor follows to feel young.
Mediterranean diet
This diet mainly consists of whole foods such as fruits, vegetables, pulses, low-fat proteins and dairy products. Along with this, the consumption of red meat, processed food and alcohol has to be reduced. For seven consecutive years, the Mediterranean diet has been chosen as the healthiest diet by US News and World Report. According to research, this diet is very helpful in improving heart health, weight loss as well as brain health.
overeating at lunch
Roizen eats the biggest meal of the day at lunch and usually eats only salad at night, as a heavy meal at dinner can cause indigestion and insomnia. A 2024 study by researchers at the University of Alagoas in Brazil found that eating most of your calories at lunch may help prevent and reduce obesity, regardless of the quality of the diet.
Eating fewer calories five days a month
Roizen also follows the Longevity Diet, developed by Valter Longo, director of the University of Southern California Longevity Institute. He's been doing it for seven years. The diet involves restricting calories five days a month to mimic the effects of fasting. It's not unreasonable to think that this diet, at least twice a year, during the ages of 40 to 60 could add three to four years of healthy life, explains David Clancy, who studies the biology of aging at Lancaster University in the UK. The effect may be even greater in people with high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity.
intermittent fasting
Roizen eats every day between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. He said that although the data on the effects of intermittent fasting on longevity are much less solid than the data on calorie-restricted fasting, he said he likes how it makes him feel. He said eating in an 8-hour period makes him feel energetic throughout the day. It also helps him sleep better.