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Diet
Diet is the behavior that's been studied the most in terms of trying to affect things
like aging and longevity- and what scientists end up leaning on is what we call 'epidemiological' or observational data.
They compare the diets that different people eat, and then they look at the features of those people using things like biological aging or disease risk or life expectancy.
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So the first is how much we eat, the second is what we eat, and the third is when we eat.
So in terms of how much we eat, a lot of science went into this idea of caloric restriction.
Caloric restriction isn't starvation. It's usually just about a 20% reduction in the overall calorie intake.
. In a lot of different animal models, so anything from a worm, fly, mouse, people have seen that when animals are caloric restricted, they tend to live longer.
When trying to figure out if something like caloric restriction is actually beneficial to the aging process in terms of slowing aging,
, one caveat is that humans today are not at baseline; we're actually more prone to overeating.
So some researchers have figured out that it might not be the caloric restriction that's actually the beneficial thing.
So even if you can't restrict your calories, just moving away from overeating is probably gonna have a beneficial effect for most people.
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A lot of research has gone into whether things like a plant-based diet are actually beneficial to aging and longevity.
And there seems to be some evidence that eating less animal products, more fruits and veggies more whole foods is gonna be better overall;
and also minimizing things like refined sugars, and the things that we know are bad for our health.
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