lifespan

  1. haidut

    Dietary Glycine Supplementation Mimics Lifespan Extension By Dietary Methionine Restriction

    In support of Ray's statements that the benefits of caloric restriction may be due to the absence of specific toxic substances, this study shows that extra dietary glycine mimics lifespan extension by methionine restriction: http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/meeti ... acts/528.2 The amount of...
  2. haidut

    Glycerol Extends Lifespan By Inhibiting Glycolysis

    Ray has written several times about calorie restriction and I am a bit confused on his views. On one end he says that restricting calories enhances metabolism, on the other hand he says it is bad b/c it lowers thyroid hormone and promotes fatty acid oxidation, which is a hallmark of stress...
  3. haidut

    Optimal Diet For Increasing Lifespan

    Despite their many drawbacks due to being guided by wrong theories, some modern nutrition studies are starting to go in the right direction. This latest study looked at some important issues covered by both Peat and mainstream medicine. The issues are whether caloric restriction increases...
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    • Forum: Scientific Studies
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    Cacoa Extends Lifespan And Keeps Dopamine High

    Ray wrote that cacao has bromocriptine, which I have not been able to verify, but there is a study that backs up his claim. http://peatarian.com/peatexchanges "...Caffeine increases your metabolic rate, so it's important to take it with food, including enough sugar. Coffee and cocoa are very...
  5. haidut

    Why Ray Peat May Be Advising Against (strong) Spices

    Ray has written on the topic of de-ennervation and how it negatively affects the tissues where nerves die off or have reduced communication efficiency. He wrote that some spices, especially capsaicin, are known to cause de-ennervation and he tries to avoid those. This recent study seems to...
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    Higher Muscle Mass Extends Life Expectancy

    People with more muscle mass also have higher metabolism. Even though the study did not make the connection between muscle mass and metabolism, it strengthens Ray's point that resistance exercise (only the concentric portion) is very protective. http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-934 ...
  7. haidut

    Having A Sense Of Purpose Increases Lifespan

    Not that this is of any surprise to anyone, but Ray has written often about the nervous system and the effects it has on the rest of the body. The nervous system (and by extension our body) is healthiest when metabolism is high AND when it perceives the world as purposeful, including the things...
  8. haidut

    Another Study Links Shorter People To Longer Lifespan

    I posted about a similar study before but it was just a correlation analysis. This study seems to go a step "further" and claim that this is related to genetic makeup and the (in)famous FOXO3 gene. I think Peat wrote that the lifespan benefits are likely due to the higher (on average) brain/body...
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    • article health height lifespan
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    • Forum: Health
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    Vitamin E extends lifespan but only if taken long term

    This study does a decent job of discussing the benefits of vitamin E, the boom of research in the 1990s and the disappointing results. But despite all of the bad mainstream press, Ray is once again right on the money. Vitamin E does have a lifespan extending effect but it just has to be taken...
  10. haidut

    Mitochondrial Activity May Determine Lifespan

    I know Ray has written on the link between metabolism and longevity, and here is a study that corroborates this idea...in worms:-) https://theconversation.com/predicting- ... orms-23267 The study claims that the rate of production of toxins like NO inside the mitochondria during the first...
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    • article health lifespan mitochondria
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    • Forum: Health
  11. T

    Caffeine Can Shorten Life Expectancy - But Alcohol Lengthens

    Any thoughts? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... xpect.html cheers thomas
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    • Forum: Coffee
  12. haidut

    Sirtuins And Life Extension

    Hi all, In the last couple of years there has been a lot of "noise" in the media about how the SIRT-family of genes can extend lifespan when activated by things like exercise or, preferably, by certain chemical compounds like resveratrol (which putatively acts on SIRT-1). Ray Peat has stated...
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    Aspirin extends lifespan in animal model

    Similar to my post about caffeine, aspirin also extends lifespan in the same animal model, albeit more modestly (e.g. about 20%-23%). Here are the studies: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23485446 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22866967 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18631321...
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    Caffeine extends lifespan in animal model by 52%

    Several other drugs achieved similar effects, but caffeine did best in extending both average and maximal lifespan. I have not seen any other naturally found compound come even close to extending life by so much. The human dosage equivalent according to the researchers is 100mg-200mg every 4h...
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