Longevity Influencers Are Killing You

5 popular longevity strategies are trending everywhere, but they likely shorten your lifespan instead of improving your health.

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[DrBradStanfield]

Alarming consequences for each of these 5 'longevity' strategies, let alone if they are combined together...

[marstedt]

0:11 - 1. Low Protein Diet
3:18 - 2. Metformin
5:32 - 3. Intermittent Fasting
8:17 - 4. Resveratrol
10:25 - 5. Antioxidants

[marylamb]

My grandmother lived to 103. She smoked like a chimney and was obese. She never exercised and hated veggies. Yet she never had diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, cancer, nothing. The only thing she had was a completely calm and laid back personality. My mother is 90 and is the same way, no health issues but 100% laid back. These two didn't try to live long. They just lived.

[markusantonious]

I've done intermittent fasting for over a decade....usually 18/6....and my muscle mass is perfectly fine.

[duskrider]

I found short term intermittent fasting (couple days a week over about 6 weeks) very helpful for getting my sugar cravings under control and it even reduced my desire to consume alcohol.

[oldboy]

On days where I DON'T do IF, my mental acuity is lower and I generally feel more lethargic. When I break my fast I always load up on protein so no problem there. I am lighter than I've been in years because of IF and no regrets.

[luizfigobr]

I will have to disagree on the intermittent fasting. It has done wonders for me. My lean muscle mass actually improved in size and quality. Beeing an athlete all my life, so i can tell because i am very self-aware of my body.

[moc]

About just being able to possibly maintain muscle strength in old age... I can pridefully and truthfully tell you that after starting resistance training at about 75 years of age I have quite substantially increased muscle mass and strength. It's evident in the number of push ups and chin ups that I can do and it's also evident in the mirror--- "lats" sticking out under my arms, biceps, etc. And I got there by using what Dr. Stanfield has already discussed, which is a very high number of reps nearly to failure. Look up "negative pull-ups" sometime if you want lats.

[TwoStackedCRTTubes]

I been doing intermittent fasting for almost ten years now, it does wonders for my immune system and I never got sick again in the winter, as I always used to, and my bloodwork results are always great.
And by "fasting" I mean I just eat when I'm hungry because I feel NEGATIVE hunger levels in the morning (just like other people in the comments) and after the evening, so I'm highly skeptical of the idea that you need to force feed yourself all day in order to achieve some "ideal" protein intake and absorption, as I hear nothing but positive histories from people who adopt some kind of regular fasting.

[vdfadfa]

Have been doing low carb diet & intermittent fasting for 10 yrs, never felt or looked better!
Am regularly told I look younger according to my friends of similar age. Food conglomerates are likey not happy with intermittent fasting trend lol

[xqspx]

Gotta say it's pretty saddening and even frustrating when people whom I'm generally trusting and looking up to within the same field of work (in this instance: medicine) are so strongly disagreeing with with one another and even hating on each other...

[davidperfette]

Autophagy aside, plenty of literature and research demonstrates the many benefits of intermittent fasting. Andrew Huberman did an excellent two-hour podcast, synthesizing all the research and clarifying the benefits. Yes, IF can work against maintaining muscle, but it doesn't have to. It is very difficult to get the prescribed ideal amount of protein in our diets to begin with. IF doesn't restrict protein intake. It's common to associate two meals a day with proper IF protocols, but there's no reason you can't eat three meals within your eating window. Or, if you want to try to stick to two meals, you can always eat two of the three meals closer together. E.g. 10am breakfast and 12pm lunch. You're still likely to be digesting the earlier meal, so that could be akin to one extended meal. The point is you have the opportunity to get the same amount of protein while doing IF that you otherwise would. I regularly weight train and run, and I've been able to build and maintain muscle while doing IF, and I'm 56yrs old. Also, I have better workouts while in a fasted state, so it's actually contributing to muscle building and maintenance.

[johnwilliam]

IF isn't killing me. In fact, I feel great. I fast until 4pm, then eat. Ill fast again until 10pm (Due to work commitments). This method massively works for me. No mid-afternoon tiredness, no fatigue. However, ill never work out in a fasted state.

[nikolai]

i do intermittent fasting 16-18 hr almost 6 years all my allergy symptom's gone, asthma gone im 53 and im in prefect shape in my life

[joestone]

absolutely excellent critique of the longevity clowns and grifters. The most important prevention protocol is to avoid frailty, but most of the longevity grifters are promoting a protocol that would accelerate sarcopenia.

[paulodeoliveira]

Thank a lot for having the luck to still have true and honest scientists that are willing to, not sell another product, but offer us the simple truths about age and how to fix it.

[westfieldartworks]

I did a Low Protein High Carb Vegan diet for one year back in 2016 -2017. I looked awful. I felt awful. I had brain fog and depression. I was experiencing PVC's when taking my pulse at the wrist ( "skipping heartbeats "). My hair was flat and it seemed that my entire body drooped. 50 grams Plant protein per day for a 210 lb. man doing resistance training and HIT is not enough. All things improved when I brought back eggs and fish and some dairy back into my diet. Thanks for the video, Doc.

[aafursa]

I don’t agree with you about the Intermittent fasting. It has many benefits for the human body, as with everything you have to find a way that it works for you not against. Too many people eat too many times a day never giving their digestive system a break. I will say though, I haven’t heard about the reservatrol being a poison- that’s something I will have to look into.

[trogpo]

As to Metformin for non diabetes, I can tell from my own experience that it makes the muscles prone to tears. I do high impact sprinting and jumping, and while I was on Metformin I suffered from numerous muscle tears in the quads and hamstrings. It was just crazy. After giving up Metformin, the problem stopped completely.

[sebastiancardoso]

This video is absolutely glorious. Major kudos for calling out fads and pseudo-science. I'm super-interested in Dr. Sinclair's work, but his low protein and low calorie advice is downright asinine considering that the bulk of his research is only on mice. Not to mention the obvious deleterious implications for lean mass.