Your potential average and maximum life spans will be substantially increased by the nutrient-rich food.
Let’s say that your hereditary potential the age you might expect to reach based upon the genes you’ve inherited from your parents is to live to be 80 years old. Let’s assume that you started and stuck to a rather high percentage of calorie limit, beginning at age 20. Over that remaining 60 years you might expect to age at half the expected rate, be “functionally” 50 when you were in fact chronologically 80. Your 60 years would thus stretch out to 120. (more…)
In elderly people there is a notable reduction in the capacity to produce new blood cells. Yet, unless there is substantial physiological stress, the number of circulating cells remains fairly constant. Quantitative deficiencies are only apparent when stress produces a demand that exceeds reserve proliferative capacity. Such a demand might occur during an acute infection or after cytotoxic chemotherapy. (more…)
The amount of “complete” protein a person requires per day is about 0.015 ounces per pound of body weight. This comes to around 2 ounces per day, depending on the size of the person. This amount is required to replace the protein the body loses daily in the form of discarded cells, and proteins broken down or “turned over” through metabolism. Such replacement protein is not used for energy but goes back into the structure of the body.
However, at low calorie levels, the body may divert some of this replacement protein into energy use, and leave you relatively deficient in protein for structural use. (more…)
