Is Your Healthy Diet Making You Age Faster?

I go over studies on how seemingly healthy diets can actually speed up biological aging--as in, make you look and feel older. Press "show more" to see the study link(s)!

[MichePhD]

Attention anti-science folks: I've set up filters so your comments will get caught in spam filters and end up in the void before anyone, including me, even sees them. So no point in wasting your time!
Not sure if you're anti science? Here are some hints:
- You think that a study must be wrong if the conclusions don't confirm your personal opinion
- You think anecdotes and random stories on the internet hold more weight than empirical data
- You think most studies are "propaganda" or funded by "Big X"
- You've never actually read a study in your life, never known anyone in science, or have any first-hand clue of how science works, yet you are somehow confident you understand and can evaluate the scientific process (Important note: Watching Youtube videos doesn't count as reading studies, or having scientific training)

[greensmoothieparty]

My elderly mom had a follow up appointment with her physician last week.
According to the Levine Biological Age Calculator based on her latest bloodwork test results, she has now aged minus 18 years during the last 4 years. She eats a Slow Carb, Slow Fat diet style - whole plant food carbs and whole plant food fats both with fiber, helping the body fully assimilate the nutrients without overwhelming its metabolic systems and pathways.
Here is her menu for a typical day:
Breakfast: Organic steel cut oats with some buckwheat and wild blueberries, raspberries, 1/2 banana, tablespoon of ground flax and ground chia seeds, tablespoon of hemp seeds, organic soy milk, Ceylon cinnamon.
Lunch: Green smoothie heavy on the low-oxalate greens (frozen kale or collard greens, frozen pineapple, banana, orange, lemon wedge with rind, organic soy milk, avocado sliver, amla powder, dulse flakes, apple cider vinegar, blackstrap molasses, nutritional yeast, small scoop of hemp protein powder, fresh ginger, medjool date, fresh kale) with a small handful of almonds and walnuts - or - some soup and salad.
Before dinner snack: one apple.
Dinner: Variety of simple meals including spaghetti, chili, vegetable soup with beans, lintel miso soup with organic tofu cubes/onions/mushrooms/kale, split pea soup with onions/mushrooms/carrots/celery/potato, roasted vegetables (squash/carrots/potatoes), rice and beans bowl with onions/mushrooms/kale/peppers/salsa, organic tofu scramble with yeast, broccoli, asparagus, green beans, etc.
Dessert: frozen banana whip with papaya or strawberries topped some days with a couple of macadamia nuts or a Brazil nut - or - some red grapes.
Make sure to include G-Bombs every day for optimal immune system (i.e. - greens, beans, onions, mushrooms, berries, seeds).
Avoid most processed foods. Include tofu perhaps twice a week but not more. Stop eating after an early dinner except for a few pistachios before bedtime.
Cheers!

[nushieeee]

Hi Miche, I just discovered your channel a few days ago and have been bingewatching them ever since! I'm a physician and I feel that my education regarding nutrition was appalling. We are so focused on practicing evidence-based medicine, I do not know why this mentality has not been implemented towards nutrition. I do see some primary care providers becoming more aware but I think there is a long way to go. Thank you for creating content that is evidence-based and for being conscientious of the quality and ethics behind the studies you choose to tell us about. Keep up the great work!

[dannytbm]

I'm loving these recent videos exploring optimal health!

[Atheria]

I am under the most stress when trying to eat a 10% fat (or less) vegan diet. I've let go of that, currently, and am not limiting fats anymore.

[jeandevine]

Hmm. I'm kinda curious where I fall. My diet is restricted by financial issues. In about a year, I lost 55 lbs. Basically, because my financial issues restrict the types of food I can buy. But I'm happy with the food I do get to eat.

So, if I had no financial restrictions, I'd normally buy junk food, fast food, sweets, and snacks. But due to financial restrictions, I've been eating much healthier. And I'm really grateful for the food I do get to eat.

I won't lie. I frequently thought about mugging someone for their snacks, desserts or fast food. But I do plan to continue to eat healthier when the financial restrictions ease. Though I'll probably indulge once a month. Some people have a "cheat day" once a week but, I don't trust my self restraint.

[marissabohk]

Loving my low fat high carb high fruit diet where i can eat unlimited calories and eat until satiety every meal every day💘it’s so easy when you cook most meals plus fruit is the fastest “fast food” there is💕when i was 20 this lady thought i was 13!! (i also dont wear makeup or spent exuberant time on my hair or outfits usually) Same diet as I currently eat🍓the MOST important thing is to NEVER starve yourself, i know that now.

[misfitmaniac]

Can you do a video on oils? Is it healthier to reduce consumption of them as much as possible?

[tom]

Wonderful video. I do think the type of fat one eats is also important. If you are eating high fat meals that are higher ratio of saturated fats over unsaturated fats, that would be a general no-no. But nuts, seeds, and other unprocessed fats, in moderation, would appear, from studies I've seen presented, a positive thing. But I love the idea of intuitive eating, too, and to have a balanced diet. I tend to be somewhere between the last group and the second group. No sugar, more whole foods, mostly plant based. I wonder, too, if exercise is an alleviating factor in cases of fat consumption. Certain types of exercise (I may be wrong), like walking briskly, burn fat first, no? Anyway, thanks for the thought provoking video.

[patricebrown]

I’d like a video on soy. I heard I shouldn’t eat it because of my hypothyroid medicines. Thank you. Love listening to you

[ShaynaAPage]

I wonder what role sugar plays in the length of telemeres?
~Thanks for the awesome info, i love watching your channel ❤

[antoniokinsey]

Great content as usual.
What is your thought with saturated fat from Nutiva’s Coconut Mana (coconut butter)?
If one doesn’t eat butter or oil, should they be concerned with eating up to 4 or 5 Tbps of this per day?
I just like the flavor.
Same with bee pollen. I just like the texture/flavor, but bee pollen is considered a supplement and it’s not required to provide a nutrition label.

[digitaljobshop]

Have you watch Dr. Sinclair talk about calorie restriction and increase in lifespan? He says it's good to skip meals every once in a while. He might be the professor who discovered that teleomeres lengthen during calorie restriction. Here you say stress decreased telomerase. I know when you do intermittent fasting that can lead to decrease muscle mass and it's fat we want to lose. I've been trying to understand this relationship with how calorie restriction extends lifespan but restricting calories also decreases muscle mass which is not good. I feel like that's probably an unknown in the literature. Although, Dr. Sinclair says animals will eat the same about of calories during intermittent fasting or when they restrict the window they are allowed to eat. I wonder if people do intermittent fasting but have no limitations to how much they eat if that also results in a muscle mass loss?

[hcitron]

is olive oil an exception to list of fats to be reduced from healthy diet?

[paulwalther]

This is very interesting but you're using a lot of jargon and some examples of each diet would be helpful. And then there's the fourth category - people that don't stress out about what to eat and just eat what they want more or less. What about them?

[johnnyboy]

IMO, one of the most important things a person can do is time restricted eating, regardless of the kind of diet they follow. The average American eats for around 16 hours out of the day. If they can narrow that window to between 6 and 8 hours and fast the rest of the time, you can actually get away with a lot. Yes, there may be stress in the beginning trying to get used to it, but once used to it, your mitochondria will thrive.

[omegaomtv]

I have a question thats going around that will give you content to solve. Many people are saying carbs, especially Oatmeal are the main cause of tooth decay, I wonder if this is true? Thanks

[Reaper]

Is it high saturated fat intake that's the issue or all fats in general in regards to DNA damage?

[andregavalas]

Hey Miche very curious to know if someone were to partake in a high carb low fat (less than 20g a day) diet temporarily then switch over to a standard diet at maintenance calories; would that person see fat gain from the alteration in fat oxidation. Or would your body readjust to oxidizing fats quickly once they are reintroduced on a maintenance calories diet?

[govegan]

mich do you believe in calories in calories out? i’ve seen videos of yours in the past, and i eat relatively low fat...i always keep fat grams under 30, but i’ve gained significant amount of weight, and it’s been almost 3 years...i’ve also developed high blood pressure because of the weight gain