Methionine Restriction as a Life Extension Strategy
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2013-09-20

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DESCRIPTION: Plant-based diets may prove to be a useful nutrition strategy in both cancer growth control as well as lifespan extension because these diets are naturally lower in methionine.

For an explanation on how and why plant-based diets are an effective dietary methionine restriction strategy, see the last video Starving Cancer with Methionine Restriction (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/starving-cancer-with-methionine-restriction).

For background on the free radical theory of disease, see Mitochondrial Theory of Aging (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mitochondrial-theory-of-aging/).

Plant-based diets can also mimic other benefits of caloric restriction, such as improving levels of the "fountain of youth" hormone DHEA. See The Benefits of Caloric Restriction Without the Actual Restricting (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-benefits-of-caloric-restriction-without-the-actual-restricting/).

Americans Are Living Longer but Sicker Lives (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/americans-are-living-longer-but-sicker-lives/). That's why we need a diet and lifestyle that supports health and longevity. I have a whole presentation on the role diet can play in preventing, arresting and even reversing many of our top 15 killers: Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/uprooting-the-leading-causes-of-death/), one of my Top 10 Most Popular Videos of the Year (http://nutritionfacts.org/2012/12/29/top-10-most-popular-videos-of-the-year/).

I've touched previously on the irony that animal protein may be detrimental for the same reasons it's touted as superior in Higher Quality May Mean Higher Risk (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/higher-quality-may-mean-higher-risk/).

What other properties do magic beans have? See Beans and the Second Meal Effect (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/beans-and-the-second-meal-effect/). What about intestinal gas, though? Check out my blog Beans and Gas: Clearing the air (http://nutritionfacts.org/2011/12/05/beans-and-gas-clearing-the-air/).

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