Live Long and Master Aging Luigi Fontana: Longevity’s beautiful symphony
The art and science of aging well is a complex business - a nuanced melding of a finely tuned diet, essential exercise and a healthy mind. For over twenty years, Prof. Luigi Fontana has been studying the lifestyle regimes that could help us live a longer, healthier life. One of the world’s leading experts in the field of human longevity, Dr. Fontana, a physician and professor of medicine and nutrition at the University of Sydney, takes a pragmatic approach to the aging process, railing against aspirations to live an excessively long life. The author of ground-breaking research on fasting and nutrition, he explores the wider issues involved in the aging process in a new book, The Path to Longevity: The Secrets to Living a Long, Happy, Healthy Life. In this LLAMA podcast interview, with Peter Bowes, Prof. Fontana argues that medical systems based on treating sick people should be replaced by a more holistic approach to the human body. He also philosophizes about life's "beautiful journey.”
In this podcast we cover:
- Working as a longevity scientists in Australia, a country with free healthcare.
- The difference between healthcare and sick care.
- Like unserviced cars, how unhealthy humans are accidents waiting to happen."
- The scourge of obesity, especially in children and the relationship with chronic disease.
- Why living longer by itself is of "no importance"
- Finding happiness and harmony in life.
- The environmental impact of high protein and keto diets.
- Living long thanks to the longevity gene?
- The craziness of magical recipes to live longer.
- The metabolic and molecular pathways that regulate the accumulation of damage.
- Calorie restriction (CR) - the most powerful intervention to slow aging.
- Getting a phone call from CR pioneer Roy Walford.
- The confusion of ‘intermittent fasting’ describing multiple, disparate regimes.
- The limits of using mice and other animals as models for humans in longevity research.
- The role of IGF-1 - Insulin-like growth factor 1.
- The 5:2 diet and what we eat on those non-fasting days.
- Developing biomarkers that measure our response to interventions focussed on improving health.
- The importance of waist circumference.
- The ‘religious’ extremes of longevity - vegetarians, vegans, carnivores.
- Approaching aging like a master conductor or a fine artist.
- A lack of exercise being the main public health problem of the 21st century.
- Why sportsmen and women do not live particularly long lives.
- The role of the matters of mind in longevity and pink noise.
- The value of sleep in healthy aging and memory conso
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The Live Long and Master Aging (LLAMA) podcast, a HealthSpan Media LLC production, shares ideas but does not offer medical advice. If you have health concerns of any kind, or you are considering adopting a new diet or exercise regime, you should consult your doctor.