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Episode 5: Eating Away at Cancer
UCLA, that were in the biosphere and the whole thing was about they
were going to grow the food that they used. And so it’s going to be a
self-sustained environment and they weren’t getting anything in or out of
it. They’d have to grow what they needed.
Well, they ended up growing—they had something go wrong and they
couldn’t grow enough food for them. So they had to ration what they ate
to have less food. And while they were hungry and all they found
remarkable physiological and psychological changes that were very
positive and that really spawned the whole calorie restriction movement,
you know, the calorie restriction, fasting movement, and so on. So
calorie restriction with optimal nutrition there’s now been more than two
thousand studies in virtually every organism, single cell organism, all the
way up to primates and even in humans now that suggest that this is
positive for physiology.
That it actually is kind of like if you would say if there was a fountain of
youth it would extend life, delay disease, enhance performance,
optimize weight, increase mental clarity and start going down the list of
things that are beneficial from doing this approach. So if you now take
calorie restriction and you add optimal nutrition most people would
agree that if you ate less calories but you max out the nutrients and get
all these 51 that we’re talking about at the same time that it has got to
be better for you than either eating a lot of calorically dense food or a
little bit of calorically dense food. You see what I’m saying. So that piece
is a very important piece of the puzzle.
There’s a really cool study in Journal of Nutrition in 2001. It’s four
groups of mice, genetically altered mice, altered to be more susceptible
to disease. So the first group of mice was—they call it the all you could
eat group. So they gave it all the food it could eat all the time so it
grazed all the time. They also added corn oil to the situation. So these
mice live an average of 232 days, so 232 on the average. And so the
second group, same kind of mice, same feeding method but all they did
was instead of corn they gave fish oil—okay, fish oil and they lived an
average of 100 days longer, okay, just adding the fish oil. There’s still
garbage food underneath if you think about it. So the third group was
the calorie restriction where they take the same food, same feeding
method but they actually cut the calorie of the food by 40 percent. They
lived an average of 200 days longer than the 232 day controlled just by
eating less of unhealthy food they were eating. Okay.
And the last of the four groups was the calorie restriction group
combined with fish oil and this group lived an average of 400 days
longer than the 232 day control. So 600 and something days versus 200
and something days. So that’s a fascinating little study. And as I always
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