#1017: Show- The Key to Longevity with Dr. Valter Longo

Show Topic: The Key to Longevity with Dr. Valter Longo

Co-Hosts:  Judy Gaman, Walter Gaman, Mark Anderson

Guest: Valter D. Longo

Segment 1:

• What is fasting? Why do people do it?
• From a medical standpoint, is it safe?
• Who shouldn’t fast
• Difference between a cleanse and a fast
• What is the 8/16 plan and why does it work

DOC SHOCK

1 in 10 people in the US and Canada develop Diabetes type II. The good news is that diabetes can often be reversed with lifestyle change and weight loss. According to some doctors who wrote in BMJ Case Reports, intermittent fasting may be the answer to reversing this deadly disease. These doctors studied patients with known diabetes and placed them on intermittent fasting routines, either fasting for 24 hours every other day or 3 days per week. All of the study subjects were able to completely go off if insulin after ten months on the program.

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Segment 2:

Professor Valter Longo joins us today all the way from Italy to discuss diet and the role it plays with anti-aging. 

Valter, why don’t you tell us about yourself and your background?

Valter Longo, PhD, is the Edna Jones Professor in Gerontology and Professor in Biological Science. He is also the Director of the USC Longevity Institute. He studies the fundamental mechanisms of aging

• What makes you so passionate about food and anti-aging?
• In your book The Longevity Diet you based your recommendations on 5 pillars of longevity. What are the 5 pillars and why are they important?

Segment 3:

• What is the ideal everyday diet and how did you identify it?
• In your book you talk about how many hours a day we should eat for. Can you tell us about it?
• You disagree with the idea of eating 5-6 times a day. Why and what should we do instead?
• What is a fasting mimicking diet and what are its effects in mice and humans?
• How does the fasting mimicking diet affect aging and disease?
• What about intermittent fasting? How does it differ from what you propose?
• What about exercise? How important is it for longevity?

Segment 4:

Medical Mania Trivia-Jeffrey

1. What is the average life-span of a sperm? 5 minutes, 12 hours, or 36 hours (36 hours)
2. The lungs help move oxygen, but what muscle controls the lungs ability to function? (Diaphragm)
3. True or False. A blind person is more likely to hear and understand spoken word. (TRUE)
4. True or false: Our eyes actually see images upside down and our brain has to turn them right side up. (True)
5. What puts more pressure on the spine: Laughing and coughing or standing and walking? (Laughing and coughing.)

Open discussion

DEMENTIA DEFENDER

Last week’s riddle: I come in many shapes and colors. I sing in the breeze but only live 7 months. What am I?

Answer: A Leaf

This week’s riddle:

You measure my life in hours and I serve you as I die. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy. What am I?

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