5 Foods That Will Make You Live Longer!

What would you say the five main ingredients or foods to support longevity? Whether it be like, well, this is great. It's a great question, right? So what should we be eating? Right. We shouldn't be eating ultra processed food. We shouldn't be eating too much starch and sugar. We shouldn't be eating refined oils. We shouldn't be eating additives and chemicals. We eat about 5 pounds of additives per person a year. We shouldn't be eating pesticides, herbicides, all that crap. So that's just a given. But what should we be eating? Well, start out with the most important things for longevity, which are these phytochemicals in plant foods. So the majority of your diet by volume should be colorful fruits and vegetables and weird stuff. If you can, you know, eat dandelion greens, eat seaweed, eat all this weird stuff because that's where all the medicine is. So the more colorful it is, the more heirloom it is, the more regenerative it is, the more organic it is, the more wild it is, the better it is. So if you had a wild strawberry, it's about the size of a, you know, a peanut, but it tastes like an explosion of flavor. If you ever ate a summer wild strawberry, sure, sure, you can go to the supermarket and buy this giant strawberries that look great, but they put in your mouth. It's like, I think it's a strawberry. It's an apple. Yeah, they're gonna be an apple, you know, but it's, it's not very tasty because the, the phytochemicals aren't there. So we know that you want to include a rich array of these phytochemicals. And the special ones for longevity are things like fisetin that it's in strawberries. From pomegranate you can produce urolithin A, which includes your amount of cadre function. So you can have green tea, which is epigalactic catechin, gallate compounds, which I talked about, the sage. You can have resveratrol, which is in red grapes, beans, There's a lot of plant compounds that you can start to include. Curcumin, which is a powerful anti inflammatory. So you can have a wonderful time having a delicious diet. And then mushrooms, they're not really a vegetable, they're in its own category. And mushrooms have an incredible array of compounds. These polysaccharides that turn out are immune modulating, anti cancer, adaptogenic. And so we need to be including a lot more good mushrooms. And you can take mushrooms as supplements. But you can also eat a lot more of the good mushrooms. Also garlic and onions are really important for sulfur and the broccoli family specifically because they upregulate glutathione, which is important for detox. So you really want to have a wide array of these medicines in these plant foods. The second thing you want to do is eat the right fats. So omega 3 fats are key. Olive oil is key. Those are real longevity foods. And then protein. And this is where that gets sticky for people in terms of controversy because a lot of longevity researchers are saying, well we shouldn't eat protein because it activates this pathway that inhibits the body's own ability to clean itself called autophagy. Autophagy means self cleaning, self cannibalism. It's like a pacman that runs around cleaning up old cells. And we've all heard about now time restricted eating, intermittent fasting and all these things, ketogenic diets, well they activate this process which is built in, it's a built in recycling, repair and regeneration, renewal and longevity pathway.