What actually can help you live to a ripe old age.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by Arktikos

NO, it isn't the same sugar.

Fructose may be more damaging to your health than glucose according to a rigorous new animal study comparing the effect of both sweetening compounds on liver metabolism.

https://newatlas.com/medical/mitocho...at-metabolism/

... “The most important takeaway of this study is that high fructose in the diet is bad,” says Kahn. “It's not bad because it's more calories, but because it has effects on liver metabolism to make it worse at burning fat. As a result, adding fructose to the diet makes the liver store more fat, and this is bad for the liver and bad for whole body metabolism.”

[Arktikos]

Originally Posted by Submariner

Fructose may be more damaging to your health than glucose according to a rigorous new animal study comparing the effect of both sweetening compounds on liver metabolism.

https://newatlas.com/medical/mitocho...at-metabolism/

Another headline associated with that article:

"Foods containing high levels of fructose, such as processed foods and sugar-sweetened beverages, may damage the liver's ability to properly burn fat."


So, the takeaway is not to eat a high fat diet and processed foods with high fructose corn syrup added.

Not the same thing, at all, as eating fruit.

[Nov3]

Oxygen , motion,hydrate. Nuff said.

[ocnjgirl]

The only thing that has provided consistent positive results in longevity research studies is calorie restriction. It's thought to keep metabolism slow enough not to release free radicals (it's more complicated though). It makes sense, a fast metabolism is kind of like driving your car fast, so it makes sense that you might wear out sooner, lol.


I like to eat too much though. There are a lot of people who practice it. It is not the same as fasting.


Here's a blurb from the NIH:
How Does Calorie Restriction Work?

After decades of research, scientists still don't know why calorie restriction extends lifespan and delays age-related diseases in laboratory animals. Do these results come from consuming fewer calories or eating within a certain timeframe? Are the results affected by the diet's mix of nutrients?


Several studies have focused on what occurs inside the body when caloric intake is restricted. In laboratory animals, calorie restriction affects many processes that have been proposed to regulate the rate of aging. These include inflammation, sugar metabolism, maintenance of protein structures, the capacity to provide energy for cellular processes, and modifications to DNA. Another process that is affected by calorie restriction is oxidative stress, which is the production of toxic byproducts of oxygen metabolism that can damage cells and tissues.


Several of these processes were similarly affected by calorie restriction in the human CALERIE trial. However, we do not yet know which factors are responsible for calorie restriction's effects on aging or whether other factors contribute

[staywarm2]

May be true, but I see lots of very skinny old people who look like they are at death’s door. A little meat on the bones is good if someone gets very ill.