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Longevity expert Valter Longo wants to live to 120. He shares his daily diet and exercise habits to boost longevity based on how centenarians live.
The Longevity Diet is a 2018 book by Italian biogerontologist Valter Longo. The subject of the book is fasting and longevity . The book advocates a fasting mimicking diet (FMD) coupled with a mostly plant based diet that allows for the consumption of fish, for greater longevity.
In a profile of the scientist in the New York Times, Longo, a professor of gerontology and director of the USC Longevity Institute in California, says he wants to live 120 to 130 healthy years.
“[FMD] is making the system younger and by making it younger, making it more functional,” senior author Valter Longo, Ph.D., director of the USC Longevity Institute, tells Fortune. “It’s ...
Valter D. Longo (born 1967) is an Italian-American biogerontologist and cell biologist known for his studies on the role of fasting and nutrient response genes on cellular protection aging and diseases and for proposing that longevity is regulated by similar genes and mechanisms in many eukaryotes.
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Valter Longo, Ph.D., a biologist and director of the USC Longevity Institute, invented the fasting-mimicking diet for patients with cancer.
Through an examination of the careers of American physician Caldwell Esselstyn and professor of nutritional biochemistry T. Colin Campbell, Forks Over Knives claims that many diseases, including obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer, can be prevented and treated by eating a whole-food, plant-based diet, avoiding processed food and food from animals.