Fasting For Longevity: Valter Longo, PhD Shares Cutting-Edge Fasting Science & Optimal Nutrition Protocols For Lifespan Extension & Disease Prevention

404 snips

Feb 10, 2025

Valter Longo, a leading longevity researcher and professor, shares groundbreaking insights into fasting and nutrition. He discusses the Fasting Mimicking Diet's potential to improve health outcomes, including cancer treatment and obesity management. Valter challenges conventional views on protein intake and emphasizes the importance of dietary balance for longevity. He also highlights the transformative impact of fasting on disease prevention and the future of health interventions, offering a hopeful perspective on extending human healthspan.

Ask episode

AI Snips

Chapters

Books

Transcript

Episode notes

ADVICE

Time-Restricted Eating

Practice time-restricted eating, consuming all daily calories within a 12-hour window.
This aligns with centenarian practices and has shown promising results in clinical trials.

INSIGHT

Sustainable Fasting

Alternate-day fasting and 5:2 diets may be too demanding for the general population.
The fasting-mimicking diet (FMD), however, offers a more sustainable approach to periodic fasting.

INSIGHT

Longevity Research

Dr. Longo's research focuses on nutrition, fasting, and their impact on longevity and disease.
He investigates the effects of fasting on gene expression and aging pathways.

Get the Snipd Podcast app to discover more snips from this episode

Get the app

Voicing Change

Rich Roll

Voicing Change is a culmination of Rich Roll's eight-year journey of interviewing unique thinkers and visionaries on his acclaimed podcast. The book distills the collective wisdom from these conversations into thoughtful essays and first-person wisdom, focusing on themes of intentional living, life lessons, and enduring inspiration.

Finding Ultra

Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Top Ultrarunners

Rich Roll

Finding Ultra recounts Rich Roll’s remarkable journey from an out-of-shape, mid-life couch potato to one of the world’s top ultrarunners. The book chronicles his battle with alcoholism, his transformation into an elite endurance athlete, and his adoption of a plant-based lifestyle. It includes his experiences in the elite Ultraman competition and the EPIC5, five Ironman-distance triathlons completed in less than a week on different Hawaiian islands. The revised and updated edition provides practical tools, practices, and strategies for optimal performance, longevity, and wellness, making it a guide for anyone seeking to transform their life through self-discovery and a healthier lifestyle.

The Plantpower Way

Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes and Guidance for the Whole Family

Julie Piatt

Rich Roll

Created by Rich Roll and Julie Piatt, this book shares their experiences and the health benefits of a plant-based lifestyle. It includes a variety of easy-to-prepare whole food recipes, such as hearty breakfasts, lunches, dinners, smoothies, juices, and desserts. The book is not just a recipe collection but a comprehensive guide to long-term wellness, body, mind, and spirit health, and a celebration of a simple and sustainable lifestyle.

Fasting Cancer

How Fasting and Nutritechnology Are Creating a Revolution in Cancer Prevention and Treatment

Valter Longo

In this book, Dr. Valter Longo reveals the results of decades of research on fasting and nutrition technology-based studies to defeat cancer. The book shows how the fasting-mimicking diet makes cancer therapies potentially more effective and less toxic to patients, providing an evidence-based complementary approach to mainstream treatments. It also describes how the everyday Longevity Diet and plant-based ketogenic diet can support cancer therapies. Rich in patient stories and clinical data, the book invites doctors, healthcare professionals, patients, and family members to understand the extraordinary potential of this new approach to fight cancer.