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SUBJ: Headlines from the Linus Pauling meeting
SUBtitle: Taking lithium orotate daily preserves your brain
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I consider the biennial Linus Pauling Conference on nutrition and healthspan as the best healthspan conference in the world, and I am the only person who has attended every meeting. I believe this was the 18th. The notes below are all based on thorough research from distinguished experts at major institutions.
NOTES: LPI Meeting highlights. See full meeting notes here.
2 years of added health would save the US $7 trillion over 50 years.
Two biggest things to save the planet via nutrition -1) eat plant based diet 2)reduce food waste
Doctors should join the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (13,000 doctors now), tell your doctor to join.
Inulin is a type of prebiotic and helps certain beneficial bacteria to grow.
Lithium orotate is a valuable OTC supplement to prevent brain degeneration.
Human exercise is the foundation of healthspan.
Only 1 in 5 adults get daily exercise.
Children-0nly 15 to 16% of kids met exercise recommendations.
77% are ineligible for military service because of obesity.
Average diet quality is only sufficient for 50% of standards.
10-20% of kids are micronutrient deficient. Vitamin D, zinc, iron are the main deficiencies.
Bone health requires vitamins K, D, Ca; neurological function takes Fe, D, Zn, Mg.
Creatine important for everyone – Get 2-4mg/day from diet. Salmon has 500mg/4 oz.
Two crests in aging-age 44 and age 60.
You should get a whole body MRI.
Short chain fatty acids affect histones-20-90K targets in genome. Sources of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) are prebiotic-rich foods that feed gut bacteria, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and nuts, as well as probiotic-containing fermented foods like yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut, and kimchi.
What motivates people is money and family!
Measure age by patterns.
Older men – fast walkers were healthier and had unique microbiome.
For microbiome, animal food is bad, plant is good
Intermittent fasting helps a great deal in older people, no effect in kids
Vitamin C enhances catecholamine synthesis; enhances antidepressant effect.
Blackberries improve cognition in older people; lots of flavonoids in blackberries.
Ketogenic diet increases memory, healthspan and endurance; adds about 10 years of healthy life extension, rescues memory after 3 mos of ketogenic diet. The ketogenic diet, commonly known as the “keto diet,” is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate dietary pattern that aims to induce a metabolic state called ketosis.
Everyone responds differently to nutrition, many opposite; some had a negative response to blueberries!
Drinking 3 to 5 cups of coffee/day is healthy! Reduces risk for cancer, CVD parkinsons, depression, cognitive function, gout, gallstone, diabetes
8 lifestyle factors-reduce stress, moderate alcohol, exercise, sleep – 87% lower mortality risk and more than 20 years more healthspan. Everyday lifestyle habits are best fountain of youth.
Nuts and olive oil both reduced cardiovascular disease 25%.
Nutrition science has gone from evaluating nutrients to foods to diets.
Best is exercise-get up and move; And also keep improving your diet, don’t change all at once.
6 months of using olive oil led to great health improvement.
Need more choline than average person gets in their diet-eggs, chicken, spinach. Esp. for pregnant women. Essential for the brain. Deficiency hurts kids in memory tests.
Ketones fuel exercise performance from sugar to fat for energy, lower muscle glycogen use. For healthspan of older adults – 30g/day for 6 mos. Big recovery from Alzheimer’s. Ketones great for neurodegenerative disease. Also great for heart disease. 100g/day 14 days – major increase in heart performance. How to do a ketogenic diet.
