Healthy Aging and Food: It’s Personal
Some foods are proposed to have positive effects on longevity; at the same time we are discovering the power of personalized nutrition
Eating for eternity
In the quest for healthy aging and extreme longevity, we are leaving no stone unturned. Drugs (such as metformin or rapamycin), supplements (such as resveratrol), blood exchange and/or dilution, custom-made molecules, stem cells,…
So far, no magic potion.
One thing we do know, though, is that lifestyle and genetics matter. A lot.
When investigating the effects of lifestyle on longevity, it’s not the worst idea to go looking for places where people grow very old in good health. Enter the Blue Zones, locations that are demographic outliers where people have a roughly ten time higher chance of becoming a healthy centenarian.
These Blue Zones are geographically not exactly close neighbors, and neither are they culturally identical. Still, there are some shared characteristics:
- Move gently throughout the day. Or…
