Comments on: Real Life Extension: Caloric Restriction or Intermittent Fasting? (Part 2)

By: Mary Titus

Mary Titus — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:15:32 +0000

Idai, just read your post with much interest. I just had a glucose tolerance test this week. My glucose rose considerably and I am expecting my doctor to diagnose me as being pre-diabetic. I felt that my results may cause some concern yet I was not concerned about it because I fast. The more I read about this the more comfortable I am with my GTT.

Thanks.

By: Mary Titus

Mary Titus — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:09:23 +0000

Okay, throw away observations of how people lived and survived hundreds of years ago. I chose to become the guinea pig in my own intermittent fasting experement.. In April of 2010, i will be doing IF for 3 years. All I can say is it gets better the longer I do it.

I consider my lifestyle the modern paleo lifestyle. I’ve lost 35 lbs. I live a low carb/ketogenic lifestyle that consists of 1 to 2 meals a day. I eat lots of saturated fats, nutrient dense low carb fruits and veggies. I especially eat meat. I eat like a lioness. Now that is what I call research I can use.

By: jdawg

jdawg — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:00:30 +0000

With the whole 40 year paleolithic longevity issue… if primal man had access to the housing, medicine, and sanitation of today–he would have lived much longer, it just goes without saying.
It’s impossible to disprove the effectiveness of a theory such as the paleolithic lifestyle with an outlier such as that (it’s just a blanket statement not considering other advances, not to mention epigenetics) …

By: pjnoir

pjnoir — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:05:21 +0000

March 3rd, 2008
6:31 pm
Didn’t paleolithic man have a lifespan of like 40 years?

He didn’t die of ill health if that is your drift.

By: Frank Vasquez

Frank Vasquez — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:51:56 +0000

Well, there are articles posted about this every week if you care to read them. Here is a new one for you.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/magazine/11Calories-t.html

I am sure you can find others if you are interested. Scientists have been studying this for decades and the original theory is ancient.

It was a hot topic with Luigi Carnaro in the 15th Century. Here are some modern (like1833 and 1913 reprints) of his experiences:

http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Luigi+Cornaro&source=an&ei=-RPZSo2WNMPe8QbeuNW3BQ&sa=X&oi=book_group&ct=title&cad=author-navigational&resnum=4&ved=0CBgQsAMwAw

Of course there were questions back then about whether the world is round.