What to Eat & When to Eat for Longevity: New Science | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair - S2, Ep. 3

Biology respects moderation. Just three cycles of a fasting mimicking diet reduced the biological age of those people on average by 2.5 years. Light resets the brain's clock and food resets the body's clock. Your body processes food best earlier in the day. No complicated rules, no rigid meal plans. It can be really simple. What happens

when [music] we don't ever give the body a break from food? Now, women often ask me, "Is fasting the same for us as it is for men?" Another common question I get is, "I've hit a plateau. Now, what should I [music] do?" So, here's how I troubleshoot. Welcome to Lifespan, a show where we discuss the cuttingedge

science of aging and how to live healthier at any stage of life. I'm David Sinclair, a scientist and professor working on understanding why we age and discovering new ways to slow and even reverse the aging process. On this show, I share an insidider look at the latest [music] from my lab, the field, and what's just around the

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Hi everyone. This is a really great episode. I'm excited to share it with you. There was so much to tell you about fasting that I actually had to split it up into two parts. This was a fun episode to record and at times it got personal. I'd actually been fasting for 3 days before filming coincidentally and

I was powering through it, but it really was a lot of information and you'll see you'll hear a lot of new things. But I had to ask Marissa to go get me some nuts uh so I could really keep going. I also show some of my own real-time biometric data such as blood glucose