I had to share this. It’s too funny.
“You might not live longer, but it’ll feel like it.”
Mark McCormick tells @mkaeberlein (X handle) his views on caloric restriction as a longevity intervention:
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All of these points seem good/reasonable, at the macro level. The main thing I’d add is that there appear to be a whole cascade of value from CR at the more micro / molecular/ cellular aging level and we may not want to ignore or under value those.
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I started a CR diet by reducing about 12% of my caloric needs and I lost over 12 pounds of body weight until I reached a stasis point of 175 pounds.
I have kept my food choices that I eat and the amount of calories that I eat the same I am in excellent health. My eating window is 2 meals a day between 12 and 6 PM. I can only conclude that my metabolism has slowed down. Do you think this is true?
When the body experiences a prolonged calorie deficit, it can initiate adaptive mechanisms to conserve energy and slow down the metabolic rate. This metabolic adaptation is a natural response to perceived starvation,
The point is I think people can practice caloric without too much trouble or pain.
Just start slow by gradually reducing your eating window to no more than 8 hours. Changing from a high-carb diet to a low-carb diet. Eggs, beef, poultry, pork, fish, etc. reduce hunger pangs for longer periods than carbs.
An old saw that most of us older folks have heard: “Eat at a Chinese restaurant and you are hungry an hour later”.
An old maxim actually taught in health class was: “Eat slowly and chew your food thoroughly and your stomach and health will thank you for it” They even specified that you should chew each bite twenty times. There is some truth to this advice.
It’s obvious that calorie restriction for many is too hard for various reasons.
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@desertshores nice Certainly your body will shrink to fit your calorie intake. That’s good news and bad news. If you have excess fat in unhealthy places on your body (and maybe just too much in general due to impact on blood flow and brain size, according to Dr Loh), shrinking is good. But the body doesn’t only go after body fat. It will protect body fat. It also goes after sex hormones, and muscles, and organ size, and immune function. This is the RED-S deal. Maybe it’s sarcopenia and osteoporosis related.
So what the right amount of calories? Of protein ? I don’t know. I’m trying to figure that out for myself right now.
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