The best diet for longevity, health and happiness

We know that we have to eat real foods and that we should avoid sugar, eat fiber, that's the fundamental thing, but then many people wonder: do you know what we should eat? I mean, we're bombarded with so much information, you know first? it's a keto fad, then it's vegan and it says you know meat is terrible and you have things like the China study that says you know cancer rates go up when you eat meat, you have the paleo

diet

you have, you know all these different

diet

s now from your research and you know you've done a lot of that, other than what's really become a kind of holy grail or bible, which is, you know, protect your liver, feed your gut, which those are the key presets, but that diet is the

best

short answer: it depends on you, it depends first of all on your personal biochemistry, which you can now learn.

There are ways to find out. Continuous glucose monitoring can tell you many things. Okay, there are some genetic tests that can really tell you. a lot of microbiome testing is starting to make sense to tell you a lot of things, ultimately all of this information right now is data that we have to turn into usable information, but we are in the process of doing that, so my expectation is that in the Next In three to five years there will be an algorithm to determine your personal biochemical profile that will then tell you which foods are

best

for your personal

health

.

That being said, today that is not the case, we have continuous glucose monitoring that is available and full disclosure. I am a consultant for several companies that use continuous glucose monitoring information to try to alter people's eating patterns and diets in an attempt to try to improve

health

. We have not yet proven that they are actually the causes. prolong life, but we have good data on how to mitigate glucose and therefore insulin spikes because those insulin spikes cause cellular damage, that metabolic health problem that we talked about earlier, okay, it's due to high insulin levels, so keeping insulin low is work. one for any diet, but you don't know what foods will keep your insulin low unless you have some metric, some biomarker to determine it.

Currently there is glucose monitoring, it's enough, not even close, but it's a start, okay, it's the first thing to do. the right door, ultimately we're going to need ketone monitoring, we're going to need lactate monitoring, we're going to need alcohol monitoring, we're going to need insulin monitoring and that's going to be the most important one and unfortunately it's about five years from now, it's Well, we're also going to need a postprandial triglyceride check. Okay, that will take even more time in the future, so the point is that there is information that we can get and we are learning how to take advantage of that information and that will tell us what diet.

It's better for which person, but in the meantime, until that's a real thing and it's not a real thing yet, but until it's a real thing, there are certain precepts that we know work, one is to lower insulin in any way possible. insulin diet now there are two basic ways to have a low insulin diet: one is to not get the insulin up well, which causes the insulin to go up refined carbs and sugar, so we would call that a low carb diet, It's okay, but it has to be that way. a really low carb diet, most people who are on a low carb diet are not on a low carb diet, they are on a medium carb diet and they are still letting you know that their glucose is going up and still making their insulin increase, so the concept that you can go on a 35 carb diet and call that low carb as a joke, if you're really on a low carb diet you better be under 25 carbs, how can you determine that ?

You have to know it. your ketones, okay, is there a way to know your ketones well? There is actually a breath or urine ketone meter available now. You know you can check your urine for ketones, but the bottom line is if you are, if you think you're on a ketogenic diet and you don't know it because you're eating more carbs than you should, then you're on the worst diet, you're on a high fat and medium carb diet which is the worst diet possible so either do it completely or not so that's one way the second way is what vegans do now.

I am not against veganism. I am not in favor of veganism. I am not against ketogenic diets. I don't have four ketogenic diets. because it's for lowering insulin, that's what I'm for, so people say oh lustig, it's low carb, it's not true oh lustig, it's anti-vegetable, it's not true, okay, what I'm for is real food, So why is real food okay? Why real food helps you? Insulin is reduced well because real foods have fiber and fiber by blocking early absorption keeps the rise in glucose and insulin under control and if you look at the data in the literature, it turns out that a diet rich in fiber will a good job suppressing that glucose. and insulin rises like a low carb diet will, so in fact vegans and keto are on the same page, well they think they are actually antagonistic to each other, they need to come together and attack the real culprit that It's processed food. because that's what never works, that's what our bodies can't handle and the reason is because that's what causes glucose and insulin to rise higher and that's what causes mitochondrial dysfunction and that's what ultimately leads to chronic metabolic disease