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#35 - Nir Barzilai, M.D.: How to tame aging

The Peter Attia Drive

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The Major Reason for Aging Is an Accumulation of Visceral Fat

The major reason for aging is this insolencin resistance drum, and the main part of the instrument resystem is an accumulation of visceral fat. I had the j c i paper at that time in press really showin with mri pictures, how coloric restriction decreases the visceral fat. And everybody in the abitis knew the disaster. Why am i telling you that? Because i learned later on experiments that i've done. In some of them, i removed their visceral fat depots by surgery, and in the other it was a sham procedure. They actually lived significantly longer than the libidum by 20% but not as much as the caloric restrictior.

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