The Secret to a Long and Healthy Life
Learn the most important factors for living a long and healthy life. It's not about taking statins or following a vegetarian diet, but about staying in good metabolic health. Insulin sensitivity is the best measure of it.
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The most important factors in living a long and healthy life are overlooked.
— P. D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 (@Mangan150) April 3, 2023
It's not about keeping your LDL low, whether via statins or anything else;
not about eating a low-protein vegetarian diet;
not about taking metformin or nicotinamide riboside. -
The most important factor is good metabolic health, and insulin sensitivity is the best measure of it.
— P. D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 (@Mangan150) April 3, 2023
Centenarians have good insulin sensitivity, better than most people a couple decades younger. -
Insulin resistance (= poor insulin sensitivity) is associated with just about any chronic disease you can name, from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's and gout. 👇https://t.co/xSzpek9uKu
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Long and healthy life means avoiding chronic illness.
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By staying in good metabolic health.
So how do you do this? -
1. Don't eat ultra-processed foods loaded with refined carbs, sugar, and seed oils.
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Eat real whole foods: meat, fish, eggs, dairy, fruit, and vegetables. -
2. Build muscle.
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Aging leads to muscle loss, resulting in poor metabolic health - not to mention weakness, lack of energy, and frailty.
Lift weights.
And be physically active daily. -
3. Maintain good body composition: relatively low body fat - especially low visceral fat - and relatively high muscle mass.
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Both men and women.
See points 1 and 2 above for how to do this. -
We could get into more detail about all of this.
— P. D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 (@Mangan150) April 3, 2023
What's the optimal diet? The optimal training plan? Optimal body composition? What other interventions are useful?
But by following the basics you'll be way ahead of almost everyone else.