The Longevity Diet

By: Valter Longo PhD

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

The internationally renowned, clinically tested, revolutionary diet program to lose weight, fight disease, and live a longer, healthier life.

Can what you eat determine how long, and how well, you live? The clinically proven answer is yes, and The Longevity Diet is easier to follow than you'd think. The culmination of 25 years of research on aging, nutrition, and disease across the globe, this unique program lays out a simple solution to living to a healthy old age through nutrition. The key is combining the healthy everyday eating plan the audiobook outlines, with the scientifically engineered fasting-mimicking diet, or FMD; the FMD, done just three to four times a year, does away with the misery and starvation most of us experience while fasting, allowing you to reap all the beneficial health effects of a restrictive diet, while avoiding negative stressors like low energy and sleeplessness.

Valter Longo, director of the Longevity Institute at USC and the Program on Longevity and Cancer at IFOM in Milan, designed the FMD after making a series of remarkable discoveries in mice, then in humans, indicating that specific diets can activate stem cells and promote regeneration and rejuvenation in multiple organs to significantly reduce risk for diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's, and heart disease. Longo's simple pescatarian daily eating plan and the periodic fasting-mimicking techniques can both yield impressive results. Low in proteins and sugars and rich in healthy fats and plant-based foods, The Longevity Diet is proven to help you:

• Lose weight and reduce abdominal fat,
• Extend your healthy life-span with simple everyday changes,
• Prevent age-related muscle and bone loss, and
• Build your resistance to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's, and cancer.

Longo's healthy, life-span-extending program is based on an easy-to-adopt pescatarian plan along with the fasting-mimicking diet no more than four times a year, just five days at a time. Including 30 easy recipes for an everyday diet based on Longo's five pillars of longevity, The Longevity Diet is the key to living a longer, healthier, more fulfilled life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2018 Blackstone Publishing (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

30 years of science based research!

this book is based on 30 years of science based research for longevity. It does not have recipes if that's what you're looking for but it is full of fantastic information on how to live a longer healthier life through food. I am excited to implement this science-based eating into my life!

Very Informative

As a medical professional myself i found the book to very informative. Most facts are backed up by research

Very informative book with latest research

This book was simple to understand and not so much technical. I truly enjoyed listening to the book!

Good listen

I enjoyed the many personal back stories and new information I was able to gain from this book across so many studies

Wow really good!

This was life changing for me. I had thought that fasting diets were just a fad. And although many of them are, this book helped me realize that fasting is part of our evolution. I am overweight and part of me has been afraid to fast, thinking I need to feel full or satisfied. I didn’t know fasting helped our body. I thought fasting was unnatural and unhealthy for our bodies. However this book changed my mind and I am going to incorporate the basic longevity diet of two meals a day. There’s so much more good and life-changing advice in this, too much to mention here, just read it. He’s very scientific and logical in his approach. While also relatively simple and engaging.

I ENJOYED THIS WORK!!

Great Information! I would strongly recommend to others who desire health and longevity, etc. Thanks

Helpful & Informative

The information presented in this audio book plus the accompanying PDF were very helpful for me for determining a healthy direction. I am looking forward to discussing this approach with my dietitian.

Found this book extremely useful.

I have already been fasting and believe in it so the added information was great

Most important book you could read

"The Longevity Diet" by Valter Longo intrigued me primarily due to the high regard many podcasters hold for Dr. Longo, having frequently invited him to discuss his work. This admiration is echoed in the nutrition science community, where his research is extensively cited, reflecting the complexity of making informed dietary choices in everyday life. Longo's work stands out for its rigorous and methodical approach, backed by solid statistical analysis. Importantly, he maintains scientific integrity by acknowledging when his findings lack statistical significance, and elucidates the underlying mechanisms of his research when possible. Longo's ability to distill complex concepts into concise, comprehensible conclusions enhances the accessibility of his work. Beyond his scientific contributions, Longo's vibrant personality adds a unique dimension to his research, making "The Longevity Diet" not only informative but also engaging to read.

Science-based. Very intriguing.

What made the experience of listening to The Longevity Diet the most enjoyable?

The humor and realness that Dr. Longo brings to a very scientific subject. I also liked his frankness about his own potential bias's.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Longevity Diet?

The animal studies that prove his theories.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, too much info for a single reading. Best to take in over several days.

Any additional comments?

Will be one of my recommended books to anyone truly interested in seeking their best health.