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Protein, fasting, cancer, and longevity | Valter Longo, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Is There Acute Versus 110 Healthy?

There's a lot of talk of optimal protein intake for hypertrophy, being at 1.6 grams per kilogram. The data suggests that consuming above the kind of RDA is going to have some sort of long-term deleterious effect on my health? For cancer, when we went from animal to plant-based, those that had more than 20% calories coming from proteins, if it was animal-based, there was a 400% increase in the risk of developing cancer. If it was more plant- based, it was a 300%. Now the effect on overall mortality went away when we were looking at subjects that were on a more plant-based source.

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