One thing i notice which is totally subjective i know but that in interviews at least their mental concentration seems off idont know what he is saying about being more cognitively efficient, i think lack of calories may do that the brain runs on glucose low glucose actually can damage the body your thyroid etc has to work harder they dont seem 'with it' no offence to those who practise this i wish them the very best of health:-)
I myself started CR quite a few years ago and you can see that I look younger by going to my post I made on "Monday, June 15, 2009" on my blog (link is on my youtube profile). I always get mistaken for being many years younger than my real age.
I've watched your videos before and they're great, you're clearly in good shape!
Thanks for the comment Matt. People do CR all kinds of ways, paul and meredith go for high carb, mostly veg though and they aim to keep glucose levels low. There doctors have shown their arteries and hearts are many decades younger and they both have extremely low risk of disease. I think meredith does look a bit younger, but also remember they only started CR at middle age.
what video? i never posted a video. I was talking about something that I know worked. I tried the calorie restriction and it doesn't work. that's all, i never posted a video. if you block me, everyone will just no appreciate you cuz they see it in front of their own eyes.
The measuring is obsessive, and their lives are centered around this. I do dislike how people eat so heavily at night, but it's also a bonding experience. They look well, but I prefer to have more energy at this point in my life.
Measuring takes no more than 5 minutes per day, so it doesn't exactly make your life about counting calories. Paul and Meredith also work long hours and run a succesful company. Paul and Meredth claim to have more energy now than ever before. Eating less while eating crap results in poor health, eating a bit less and eating well results in more energy. This is what most of us on CR find anwyway. Thank you for the comment.
I definitely agree with you about eating a lesser quantity of more nutritious foods, however, I do not see how measuring food is in any way natural or necessary. Since the anti-aging benefit is ascribed to the body's preservation of itself, I also wonder if the followers would preserve and disconnect themselves in other ways. Granted, CR is not restrictive so in an extreme sense, so the effect would not be equal to that seen with anorexics. Also, I do believe there are many benefits to
maintaining a certain amount of hunger. However, to chop up the food by nutrients on a chart on a computer, to weigh the food with a scale, is all removing the person from their food in a way that I am not comfortable with. Peace
At the 1:10 mark, you can see that they have a bottle of TwinLabs Na-PCA on the counter.
This stuff is great. Cheap, too.
The skin contains natural moisturizers, the most important being Na-PCA. The ability of skin to hold moisture is directly related to its Na-PCA content. It is water, and not oil, that keeps skin soft and supple. Na-PCA pulls water out of the air, moisturizing the skin, improving its appearance, and giving it a moist youthful glow.
they both look like HELL! I would NOT use these two as ideal spokespersons for CR because their appearance is FRIGHTENING! They are so docile because they are starving.
No shit huh? They have a pallad, zombie esque look to them. Ive seen plenty of 60 year old's on 2000-3000 calorie diets that look a whole hell of alot better than this. What's the point of tacking 20 extra years onto your life if your gonna abe walking around dead anyways?
Well I'm not sure about aging more quickly, because exercise does somewhat protect against some diseasesa associated with aging and is there for likely to extend average lifespan, but have no effect on maximum lifespan. As already shown in lab animals. Plus human die mostly of cardiovascular diseases so exercise would be more beneficial for us that say rodents who mostly die from things likey cancer. But too much exercise is not useful for living a long time. However CR + some exercise is best
I forgot mention my pet peeve w/ CR: Widespread use of artificial sweeteners. This is not part of a healthy system, but rather a built-in "cheat" in order to stick to abitrary standards. A piece of sweet fruit would apparently go way over the allowed calories.
What has artifical sweeteners have to do with it? Where have you been? They're poison. Perhaps not sure death, but for those purporting to live the ultmately healthy lifestyle, their use is absurd. You're 105 & eat 1700KC a day, how tall are you?
1. By whatever relative measure you use, they have extremely little risk for disease. And that is their goal.
2. Calories is what is related to lifespan, Growth hormone actually decreaes lifespan in animals. In CR many hormones are maintained at higher level and have a slower rate of decline on Calorie Restriction. However these two only started CR 15 years ago.
Calorie Restriction is the only known way to extend maximum lifespan, in ALL animals. So what's your point?
They also [I think] look in good health considering both are over 60 years old. I don't see too many healthy 60 years these days. Plus they are part of a health study which shows they are in excellent health and have arteries and other biomarkers of a person decades younger.
When was the clip made? April '04 "Fortune': McGlothin refused to give age, except "mid50s". I think he'd give his age if it made his case. Thus, I assume he was c54,c58 now. Without more info, I assume same for Meredith. If so, they look average. Not to deny positive biomarkers: A major longevity biomarker is muscle mass & strength: CRers score low. No supercentarian human Crer yet, so not -all- animals . Fair to assume CR as adult won't add the years a lifetime regime (the animals) would.
I can't speak for anyone else but when I had a BMI of 16.4 (105 lbs) I was lifting 70kg weights. I doubt I need much more strength than this to actually live my life, do I?
As to doubting human application of CR, human seventh day adventist lifestyle has already been shown to result in average life expectancy up to 88 years for women, and couple years less for men (and they werent CR'd). Interestingly CRers show the same characteristics that get centenarians to their age.
I don't know you. I've seen exercise videos of the men in the forefront of CR: They are extremely weak, using dumbells a young girl would use...If you remove infant mortality, murder, suicide, accidents, war injuries, and any other cause of death unrelated to diet, 88 is not far off the modified average. I suspect that this has as much or more to do with the Adventists' longevity as diet. In any case, you simply cannot yet put humans into the "results" end of this experiment.
Human Centenarians might simply show that they have similar mechanisms up regulated that CR uses to increase lifespan... maybe CR will improve even more upon this or do better. No one really knows, but one thing is probably certain, CR in humans is likely to significantly increase average lifespan. I think it's maximum lifespan that should be the big question.
My main point is that what may be & what is are two different things. As of yet: No human equivalent to the animal experiments. This is important in a least two aspects: 1/How long will successful CRers live? 2/How many sincere CRs will stick to it for the whole time? ( This is reasonably at least 40 years, of what many CRers describe as discomfort.)
Paul is now 61 years old I believe, and Meredith is 62 years old. Both look quite good in my opinion... I don't see many their age that are in good health.
Paul's age doesn't quite add up with his earlier claim, but I quess neither of us is sure. I know many men and women in their mid 60s who look as good & lead active lives. Perhaps because I am myself almost 60 & still live the lifestyle I led 30 years ago, I run into these types.
Sept'07 CBS Early Show w/Paul & Meredith mentions ages 59 & 61. Paul may be 60 now, at the most. 59 myself, I find Paul's speech & movement to resemble someone 10 yrs older, & notice a fat belly on his emaciated frame. CR consistently seems to work better for woman, as it seems to have for Meredith. The number of middle years are what we wish to increase in good health, not senior years. I would not want to spend them the way Paul is spending his.
They both started at middle age, CR doesn't reverse aging. But whatever, it's your opinion... Paul is an enthusiastic and hard working guy, he exercises, eats healthy... i don't see your problem. As I already said, I haven't seen many 60 year olds like paul and meredith (in that they look and seem younger than their age). Still, CR isn't just about appearance, it's what they feel like and what goes inside the body too.
Actually, many -manifestations- of aging -can- be reversed, & should be, if CR is to be widely accepted. So you think Paul looks good for his age, and I don't, ok. Seems like we should be on opposite sides of that disagreement: If CR was really working , shouldn't -you- be the more critical judsge of what a healthy appearance is?
Well things like heart disease, high blood pressure, poor insulin sensitivity etc.. all can be reversed to some extend yes, but I'm unaware that aging itself can be reversed. What I'm saying is that many of the 60 year olds I know can't exercise, are in poor health requiring medications, grey'd, and generally don't look healthy. If you are living in California or something maybe thi is different for you, it really depends on what you're comparing to right?
Perhaps our age difference influences our observations: Most of my friends are about 60. Many of them are strong athletic, sexual, happy, healthy people, (in other words, they look better than Paul). I'm in Chicago, famous for fat meat eaters.
The real question should be not what paul looks like now, but how much has he aged since starting CR, maybe he looks hardly any different. If thi sis the case I'd say whether it was working. Personally I'm only still young but most people think I'm at least 7-8 years younger than my real age 24. Most of my younger cousins, friends now look quite a bit older than me
Visual cues to "age", all quite unreliable: Thinness, shortness, size of facial features, thickness of hair, facial hair... make people think you're young or old. I can see how CR would make you look younger than your contemporaries, as your likely height/weight ratio is associated with youth. I also don't doubt that you really are healthier than average, but because you pay attention to health, which can be manifested via numerous systems. Call me in 100yrs & let me know how it worked out:)
I hope you got the msg I sent you via PM. Aging appearance has been slowed in dogs, monkeys, rats, mice and lots of long term CRers (10years plus who started young) also appear younger than their age. Check out that link I gave you.
Whether visually looking younger means anything, it's a characteristic that centenarians have shown throughout their life, and all the CR experiments. I'll PM you again witha study on skin aging and CR
Those who live longest may look younger in real ways than those who die of 'old age' sooner. That's not what I'm referring to. Will a kid w/a big nose die sooner? He probably looks 'older' than his button nose friends. There are prejudicial attitudes towards certain characteristics as 'old'. You may look healthier/younger because you are, but the same skinniness that makes others call you 'young' could be caused in someone else by a condition that was actually quite the opposite.
I believe in reducing calories for health benefits, and I'm glad you made the statement that CR is not about appearance, because seriously, these two in appearance look a decade or more older than they are. If they are healthy for CR, that's great, but they do appear very frail and looking on the outside they appear very unhealthy looking.
Thanks for your comment, but I disagree than meredith looks her age which is about 62+ years. I know plenty of 50 year old women that look more frail and 'older'.
Make sure you check out my blog, its on CR and I've been doing it for quite a few years. It seems to be working for me, you'll see :) Link is on my profile
One thing i notice which is totally subjective i know but that in interviews at least their mental concentration seems off idont know what he is saying about being more cognitively efficient, i think lack of calories may do that the brain runs on glucose low glucose actually can damage the body your thyroid etc has to work harder they dont seem 'with it' no offence to those who practise this i wish them the very best of health:-)
lalealynn 4 months ago
friday night chess y'all!
joeglimmix 10 months ago
If your telling me this woman is 80 i would be impressed.
Whatever4690 1 year ago
feeling hungry all the time means you don't have room to feel depressed
matchbox555 1 year ago
@matchbox555 you don't feel hungry all the time, that is rubbish. I've been on CR since I was 18, I'm now 26, and CR is very easy!
matthewlake182 1 year ago
@matthewlake182 is not dangerous calorie restringtion at 18?, body need more calories at that young age...
My questions is because I would like to became a CR diets, I'm 22.
adrygarcia 7 months ago
That's more than what I eat but the reasons are different...
guitarobsessed85 1 year ago
ugh they look so skinny, it almost looks painful.
amicusnemini 1 year ago
no they don't ;-) I've been on CR since I was 18, it takes 5-10 minutes of my day. See my blog 'matts cr'. 7+ years on CR now, easy...
matthewlake182 2 years ago
barley is the ancient grain from biblical times
pookypoo77 2 years ago
I feel hungry and tired just watching this..
oishitomoro 2 years ago
WOW! this woman has beautiful skin!
nambypamby34 2 years ago 3
I myself started CR quite a few years ago and you can see that I look younger by going to my post I made on "Monday, June 15, 2009" on my blog (link is on my youtube profile). I always get mistaken for being many years younger than my real age.
I've watched your videos before and they're great, you're clearly in good shape!
matthewlake182 2 years ago
Thanks for the comment Matt. People do CR all kinds of ways, paul and meredith go for high carb, mostly veg though and they aim to keep glucose levels low. There doctors have shown their arteries and hearts are many decades younger and they both have extremely low risk of disease. I think meredith does look a bit younger, but also remember they only started CR at middle age.
matthewlake182 2 years ago
"The only device I know that slows aging is actually alex chiu's magnetic discovery. "
How do you know these worked? Show me some evidence ;)
matthewlake182 2 years ago
The only device I know that slows aging is actually alex chiu's magnetic discovery.
JLeeMagnetic 2 years ago
one more video with this message and you're blocked. Please stop this rubbish claim
matthewlake182 2 years ago
what video? i never posted a video. I was talking about something that I know worked. I tried the calorie restriction and it doesn't work. that's all, i never posted a video. if you block me, everyone will just no appreciate you cuz they see it in front of their own eyes.
JLeeMagnetic 2 years ago
The measuring is obsessive, and their lives are centered around this. I do dislike how people eat so heavily at night, but it's also a bonding experience. They look well, but I prefer to have more energy at this point in my life.
12caredee21 3 years ago
Measuring takes no more than 5 minutes per day, so it doesn't exactly make your life about counting calories. Paul and Meredith also work long hours and run a succesful company. Paul and Meredth claim to have more energy now than ever before. Eating less while eating crap results in poor health, eating a bit less and eating well results in more energy. This is what most of us on CR find anwyway. Thank you for the comment.
matthewlake182 3 years ago
I definitely agree with you about eating a lesser quantity of more nutritious foods, however, I do not see how measuring food is in any way natural or necessary. Since the anti-aging benefit is ascribed to the body's preservation of itself, I also wonder if the followers would preserve and disconnect themselves in other ways. Granted, CR is not restrictive so in an extreme sense, so the effect would not be equal to that seen with anorexics. Also, I do believe there are many benefits to
12caredee21 3 years ago
maintaining a certain amount of hunger. However, to chop up the food by nutrients on a chart on a computer, to weigh the food with a scale, is all removing the person from their food in a way that I am not comfortable with. Peace
12caredee21 3 years ago
At the 1:10 mark, you can see that they have a bottle of TwinLabs Na-PCA on the counter.
This stuff is great. Cheap, too.
The skin contains natural moisturizers, the most important being Na-PCA. The ability of skin to hold moisture is directly related to its Na-PCA content. It is water, and not oil, that keeps skin soft and supple. Na-PCA pulls water out of the air, moisturizing the skin, improving its appearance, and giving it a moist youthful glow.
Soulnik 3 years ago
they both look like HELL! I would NOT use these two as ideal spokespersons for CR because their appearance is FRIGHTENING! They are so docile because they are starving.
LonniRuark 3 years ago
No shit huh? They have a pallad, zombie esque look to them. Ive seen plenty of 60 year old's on 2000-3000 calorie diets that look a whole hell of alot better than this. What's the point of tacking 20 extra years onto your life if your gonna abe walking around dead anyways?
BaileyLush 2 years ago
Well I'm not sure about aging more quickly, because exercise does somewhat protect against some diseasesa associated with aging and is there for likely to extend average lifespan, but have no effect on maximum lifespan. As already shown in lab animals. Plus human die mostly of cardiovascular diseases so exercise would be more beneficial for us that say rodents who mostly die from things likey cancer. But too much exercise is not useful for living a long time. However CR + some exercise is best
matthewlake182 3 years ago
I forgot mention my pet peeve w/ CR: Widespread use of artificial sweeteners. This is not part of a healthy system, but rather a built-in "cheat" in order to stick to abitrary standards. A piece of sweet fruit would apparently go way over the allowed calories.
lazur1 3 years ago
I eat plenty of fruit and manage to fit it into my 1700k/cal a day diet. What has artificial sweeteners got to do with anything lol.
matthewlake182 3 years ago
What has artifical sweeteners have to do with it? Where have you been? They're poison. Perhaps not sure death, but for those purporting to live the ultmately healthy lifestyle, their use is absurd. You're 105 & eat 1700KC a day, how tall are you?
lazur1 3 years ago
1. By whatever relative measure you use, they have extremely little risk for disease. And that is their goal.
2. Calories is what is related to lifespan, Growth hormone actually decreaes lifespan in animals. In CR many hormones are maintained at higher level and have a slower rate of decline on Calorie Restriction. However these two only started CR 15 years ago.
matthewlake182 3 years ago
Calorie Restriction is the only known way to extend maximum lifespan, in ALL animals. So what's your point?
They also [I think] look in good health considering both are over 60 years old. I don't see too many healthy 60 years these days. Plus they are part of a health study which shows they are in excellent health and have arteries and other biomarkers of a person decades younger.
matthewlake182 3 years ago
When was the clip made? April '04 "Fortune': McGlothin refused to give age, except "mid50s". I think he'd give his age if it made his case. Thus, I assume he was c54,c58 now. Without more info, I assume same for Meredith. If so, they look average. Not to deny positive biomarkers: A major longevity biomarker is muscle mass & strength: CRers score low. No supercentarian human Crer yet, so not -all- animals . Fair to assume CR as adult won't add the years a lifetime regime (the animals) would.
lazur1 3 years ago
I can't speak for anyone else but when I had a BMI of 16.4 (105 lbs) I was lifting 70kg weights. I doubt I need much more strength than this to actually live my life, do I?
As to doubting human application of CR, human seventh day adventist lifestyle has already been shown to result in average life expectancy up to 88 years for women, and couple years less for men (and they werent CR'd). Interestingly CRers show the same characteristics that get centenarians to their age.
matthewlake182 3 years ago
I don't know you. I've seen exercise videos of the men in the forefront of CR: They are extremely weak, using dumbells a young girl would use...If you remove infant mortality, murder, suicide, accidents, war injuries, and any other cause of death unrelated to diet, 88 is not far off the modified average. I suspect that this has as much or more to do with the Adventists' longevity as diet. In any case, you simply cannot yet put humans into the "results" end of this experiment.
lazur1 3 years ago
Human Centenarians might simply show that they have similar mechanisms up regulated that CR uses to increase lifespan... maybe CR will improve even more upon this or do better. No one really knows, but one thing is probably certain, CR in humans is likely to significantly increase average lifespan. I think it's maximum lifespan that should be the big question.
matthewlake182 3 years ago
My main point is that what may be & what is are two different things. As of yet: No human equivalent to the animal experiments. This is important in a least two aspects: 1/How long will successful CRers live? 2/How many sincere CRs will stick to it for the whole time? ( This is reasonably at least 40 years, of what many CRers describe as discomfort.)
lazur1 3 years ago
Paul is now 61 years old I believe, and Meredith is 62 years old. Both look quite good in my opinion... I don't see many their age that are in good health.
matthewlake182 3 years ago
Paul's age doesn't quite add up with his earlier claim, but I quess neither of us is sure. I know many men and women in their mid 60s who look as good & lead active lives. Perhaps because I am myself almost 60 & still live the lifestyle I led 30 years ago, I run into these types.
lazur1 3 years ago
Sept'07 CBS Early Show w/Paul & Meredith mentions ages 59 & 61. Paul may be 60 now, at the most. 59 myself, I find Paul's speech & movement to resemble someone 10 yrs older, & notice a fat belly on his emaciated frame. CR consistently seems to work better for woman, as it seems to have for Meredith. The number of middle years are what we wish to increase in good health, not senior years. I would not want to spend them the way Paul is spending his.
lazur1 3 years ago
They both started at middle age, CR doesn't reverse aging. But whatever, it's your opinion... Paul is an enthusiastic and hard working guy, he exercises, eats healthy... i don't see your problem. As I already said, I haven't seen many 60 year olds like paul and meredith (in that they look and seem younger than their age). Still, CR isn't just about appearance, it's what they feel like and what goes inside the body too.
matthewlake182 3 years ago
Actually, many -manifestations- of aging -can- be reversed, & should be, if CR is to be widely accepted. So you think Paul looks good for his age, and I don't, ok. Seems like we should be on opposite sides of that disagreement: If CR was really working , shouldn't -you- be the more critical judsge of what a healthy appearance is?
lazur1 3 years ago
Well things like heart disease, high blood pressure, poor insulin sensitivity etc.. all can be reversed to some extend yes, but I'm unaware that aging itself can be reversed. What I'm saying is that many of the 60 year olds I know can't exercise, are in poor health requiring medications, grey'd, and generally don't look healthy. If you are living in California or something maybe thi is different for you, it really depends on what you're comparing to right?
matthewlake182 3 years ago
Perhaps our age difference influences our observations: Most of my friends are about 60. Many of them are strong athletic, sexual, happy, healthy people, (in other words, they look better than Paul). I'm in Chicago, famous for fat meat eaters.
lazur1 3 years ago
The real question should be not what paul looks like now, but how much has he aged since starting CR, maybe he looks hardly any different. If thi sis the case I'd say whether it was working. Personally I'm only still young but most people think I'm at least 7-8 years younger than my real age 24. Most of my younger cousins, friends now look quite a bit older than me
matthewlake182 3 years ago
Visual cues to "age", all quite unreliable: Thinness, shortness, size of facial features, thickness of hair, facial hair... make people think you're young or old. I can see how CR would make you look younger than your contemporaries, as your likely height/weight ratio is associated with youth. I also don't doubt that you really are healthier than average, but because you pay attention to health, which can be manifested via numerous systems. Call me in 100yrs & let me know how it worked out:)
lazur1 3 years ago
I hope you got the msg I sent you via PM. Aging appearance has been slowed in dogs, monkeys, rats, mice and lots of long term CRers (10years plus who started young) also appear younger than their age. Check out that link I gave you.
Whether visually looking younger means anything, it's a characteristic that centenarians have shown throughout their life, and all the CR experiments. I'll PM you again witha study on skin aging and CR
matthewlake182 3 years ago
Those who live longest may look younger in real ways than those who die of 'old age' sooner. That's not what I'm referring to. Will a kid w/a big nose die sooner? He probably looks 'older' than his button nose friends. There are prejudicial attitudes towards certain characteristics as 'old'. You may look healthier/younger because you are, but the same skinniness that makes others call you 'young' could be caused in someone else by a condition that was actually quite the opposite.
lazur1 3 years ago
I believe in reducing calories for health benefits, and I'm glad you made the statement that CR is not about appearance, because seriously, these two in appearance look a decade or more older than they are. If they are healthy for CR, that's great, but they do appear very frail and looking on the outside they appear very unhealthy looking.
quietstormaps 2 years ago
Thanks for your comment, but I disagree than meredith looks her age which is about 62+ years. I know plenty of 50 year old women that look more frail and 'older'.
matthewlake182 2 years ago
Make sure you check out my blog, its on CR and I've been doing it for quite a few years. It seems to be working for me, you'll see :) Link is on my profile
matthewlake182 2 years ago
Cool, I'll check it out!!
quietstormaps 2 years ago
You've got to be kidding me.
stutwostep 3 years ago 2
you might live long (3-4 years extra) with a very very short poor "life".
a balanced diet is better. die 3-4 years early but with a very FULL life.
enjoy life. eat and drink for tomorrow, we shall all die.
leoca 3 years ago
Hi Matt,
Does this couple have a blog? If so, post the info here.
Thanks. See you on Imminst ;-))
Soulnik 3 years ago