Short excerpt from a YouTube video ("The real secret behind long life") in which Gary Brecka and another speaker argue that longevity is driven less by any particular diet and more by the absence of processed foods, strong community and purpose, and connection to nature/spirituality. They contrast natural forms of medicine (food, community, nature) with conventional pharmaceuticals and synthetics.
I think when you look at the big data too, blue zones, longevity studies, there's no dogmatic diet that drives longevity. It wasn't carnivore, paleo, pescatarian, vegan or vegetarian. It was absolutely the absence of processed foods but also the sense of community and purpose. We've lost the notion that connection is medicine, that nature is medicine and that food is medicine. And before he had medicine that was our medicine. It's still prolonging life and beating the statistics. We want to go more conventional towards chemicals, synthetics, pharmaceuticals.
I think when we are prioritizing what makes people sick and what makes people well again at the very, very top even ahead of diet, it's personal connection, it's your emotional health, your mental health, your spiritual health, your connection with God, connection with others. So I think having these deep intimate relationships with God, with others, with the planet that philosophically and in reality is going to lead to the greatest level of health.
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