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.

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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.

Scientifically tested fasting regimen

Valter Longo and his colleagues have provided the world with an invaluable service by generating the dietary information and results from his research. Now we not only know the research based target we also know how to reach it.

Science based diet

Very informative. Based on science, not woo or homeopathy. Cites many studies, Explains how diets are complexed and nuanced. Well done job on showing the reasoning behind the science. Basically the Mediterranean diet with a periodic 5-day diet that mimics fasting. Many studies showing the benefits of fasting. Safer than water only. The author goes out of his way of being upfront about a packaged diet (ProLon) which you can purchase for convenience and ensure you get all the micronutrients u need. All profits go back into the company, not to him. Very good book!

Autobiography & review of results of longevity by.

This book is a combination of autobiography and a condensed guide to the results of Professor Dr. Longo's research in longevity. I actually found myself quite enjoying the autobiographical portion although I can see how others might find it tedious. I did take a point off because I believe he could have laid out the longevity advice more clearly e.g I believe another reason he doesn't support a vegan diet is because he believes you should get the majority of your protein in one sitting and getting it through plant sources is implied to be to difficult due to the vast amount of food that would need to be consumed i.e 400 grams of garbanzo beans which he sights as an example as opposed to getting it across multiple meals however he didn't elaborate on this. Setting aside the vegan diet bias, it's a fascinating and mindful read that would be excellent primer for someone interested in further developing their understanding of how to live an longer and more healthful life. Dr. Valter Longo is mostly straightforward and concise about what he recommends which is a big plus side. I enjoyed this book so much actually I will also be purchasing the Kindle edition, a hardcopy if I come across one at the airport and regift it to someone who needs it.

well written. great info.

I really liked all the statistical research data compiled to create this book. I could have used more info on fmd.

Good research

Clear diction. No accompanying PDF unless you buy this title, but for the most part, a good listen.

A Doctors review

Brilliant, transforming,the future of preventive medicine.(only error is that high dose statins are now recommended and they really work. That change was made after this book was published so it’s not vaulter’s fault)

Highly informative

Highly informative with direct, actionable methods presented from the calculative mind of someone with much more scientific background than the majority if most physicians.

interesting book on living longer healthily.

fairly easy listen. I was intrigued to know studies have been conducted on centanarians. worth the time.

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!