
The Longevity Diet

healthier diets can be superior in taste, since vegetables, legumes, nuts, olive oil, and other plant-based foods provide a much wider variety of ingredients and flavors, compared with unhealthy food rich in saturated fats and sugars that obscure natural flavor.
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periodic low-protein, low-sugar diet, alternating with periods of normal protein intake, may do more to generate new muscle cells (which we currently think has more to do with strength than size does) while promoting health.
Valter Longo • The Longevity Diet
Minimize bad fats and sugars, and maximize good fats and complex carbs:
Valter Longo • The Longevity Diet
take a multivitamin, made by a reputable company, that contains at least vitamin D, E, magnesium, vitamin A, calcium, potassium, or vitamin K, every two to three days. As I explained
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Eat a mostly vegan diet with some fish: Strive
Valter Longo • The Longevity Diet
You should also not eat within three to four hours of going to sleep.
Valter Longo • The Longevity Diet
High protein intake, as I explained, causes the activation of the growth hormone receptor, which in turn increases the levels of insulin and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), whose altered concentrations are associated with diabetes and cancer,
Valter Longo • The Longevity Diet
THE LONGEVITY DIET
Valter Longo • The Longevity Diet
Consume low but sufficient proteins: