01-27-2004, 07:13 AM
Ellis has a new book with the ponderous title of "There is no Fountain of Youth But you can Live 10,20 or even 30 years longer" Just trips off the tongue right?
The book focuses on preventing the ravages of aging by examining research in 2 main areas -caloric restriction and glycation. There is also an extensive discussion of homeopathy.
If your not up on this stuff and are looking for a jumping off point this might be good, but for you detail/research types this is not that kind of book. It is very much one man's take on things, although the calorie restriction research is pretty much main stream even ibn the medical community.
The most interesting part to me was the dicussion of the problem with virtually every study on diet. Since all the studies were done in the last 100 years, they were done in what he calls an "ad libitum" eating environment. In an environment where there was always enough food. He ties the new caloric restriction research into the idea that our bodies were not trained to be ad libitum. This is an anomoly of the industrial food age. Kudos to him for making this clear.
Nonetheless, this idea, I think, is adressed even more organically in the Warriror Diet. My conversations with Ori have started to get me to understand that this cyclical stressing of the body, and the concurrent improvement in function, is at the heart of the diet. The caloric restriction is the vehical to get the body to work better. The body adapted over millions of years to cyclical feedings, then we started feeding it every 10 minutes.
Interesting stuff.
Ellis at www.drgregoryellis.com/anti-aging
Ori at www.warriordiet.com
Bill
The book focuses on preventing the ravages of aging by examining research in 2 main areas -caloric restriction and glycation. There is also an extensive discussion of homeopathy.
If your not up on this stuff and are looking for a jumping off point this might be good, but for you detail/research types this is not that kind of book. It is very much one man's take on things, although the calorie restriction research is pretty much main stream even ibn the medical community.
The most interesting part to me was the dicussion of the problem with virtually every study on diet. Since all the studies were done in the last 100 years, they were done in what he calls an "ad libitum" eating environment. In an environment where there was always enough food. He ties the new caloric restriction research into the idea that our bodies were not trained to be ad libitum. This is an anomoly of the industrial food age. Kudos to him for making this clear.
Nonetheless, this idea, I think, is adressed even more organically in the Warriror Diet. My conversations with Ori have started to get me to understand that this cyclical stressing of the body, and the concurrent improvement in function, is at the heart of the diet. The caloric restriction is the vehical to get the body to work better. The body adapted over millions of years to cyclical feedings, then we started feeding it every 10 minutes.
Interesting stuff.
Ellis at www.drgregoryellis.com/anti-aging
Ori at www.warriordiet.com
Bill