eat heavy atoms, live longer
What kind of diet helps to live longer? In a review paper by Michael Heinrich and Jose Prieto present a comprehensive assessment of how food has changed over time, how is has affect our health.
“Increased life expectancy has resulted in an increase in the quest for diets which allow for a healthy ageing.”
From the Mediterranean diet of oil and wild plants, the PUFAS in the Inuit diet, phytoestrogens in the Asian diet, milk, snails, insects, algae, to vegetarianism, all sorts of diet were reviewed.
Apparently, it has very recently been shown that a 10% extension of the lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans worms can be achieved by feeding them with nutrients reinforced with natural “heavy” isotopes. This is due to the fact that the bodily constituents and DNA produced from isotopically-reinforced nutrients are more resistant to free radical attack (believed to contribute to ageing).
