Eating raw food benefits human longevity... unless you're a fruitarian (Part 1 of 3) #59

[TheOuijaBird]

lol. man i dig your thinking. I'm all about keeping balance . Some of your theories just don't add up logically/

[SecretsOfLongevity]

@TheOuijaBird At what point in the video are you referring to, post the time.

[TheOuijaBird]

lol you cannot compare a wolf to a human.Humans VS. Carnivores

Tongues - Only the truly carnivorous animals have rasping ( rough ) tongues. All other creatures have smooth tongues.

[TheOuijaBird]

Our lack of claws make ripping skin or tough flesh extremely difficult. We possess much weaker, flat fingernails instead.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Opposable thumbs - Our opposable thumbs make us extremely well equipped to collect a meal of fruit in a matter of a few seconds. The claws of carnivores allow them to catch their prey in a matter of seconds as well. We could no more catch and rip the skin or tough flesh of a deer barehanded than a lion could pick mangos or bananas.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Colon formation - Our convoluted colons are quite different in design from the smooth colons of carnivorous animals.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Intestinal length -Our intestinal tracts measure roughly 12 times length of our torso ( about 30 feet ). This allows for slow absorption of sugars and other water-borne nutrients from fruit. In contrast, the digestive tract of a carnivore is ONLY **3** times the length of its torso. This is necessary to avoid rotting or decomposition of flesh inside the animal.

[TheOuijaBird]

The carnivore depends upon highly acidic secretions to facilitate rapid digestion and absorption in its very short tube.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Microbial tolerance - Most carnivores can digest microbes that would be deadly for humans, such as those that cause botulism.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Vision -  Our vision responds to the full spectrum of colour, making it possible to distinguish ripe from unripe fruit at a distance. Meat eaters do not typically see in full colour.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Vitamin C - Carnivores manufacturer their own vitamin C. For us, vitamin C is an essential nutrient that we must get from our food.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Jaw movement - Our ability to grind our food is unique to plant eaters. Meat eaters have no lateral movement in their jaws.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Teeth - The molars of a carnivore are pointed and sharp. Ours are primarily flat, for mashing food. Our "canine" teeth bear no resemblance to true fangs. Nor do we have a mouth full of them, as a true carnivore does.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Tolerance for fat - We do not handle more than small quantities of fat well. Meat eaters thrive on a high fat diet.

Saliva and urine pH - All of the plant-eating creatures ( including healthy humans ) maintain alkaline saliva and urine most of the time. The saliva and urine of the meat eating animals, however, is acidic.

[TheOuijaBird]

Stomach acid pH - The pH level of the hydrochloric acid that humans produce in their stomach generally ranges about 3 to 4 or higher but can go as low as 2.0. ( 0 = most acidic, 7 = neutral, 14 = most alkaline). The stomach acid of cats and other meat eaters can be in the 1+ range and usually runs in the 2s. Because the pH scale is logarithmic, this means the stomach acid of a carnivore is at least10 times stronger than that of a human and can be 100 or 1,000 times stronger.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Uricase - True carnivores secrete an enzyme called uricase to metabolise the uric acid in flesh. We secrete none and so must neutralise this strong acid with our alkaline monorails, primarily calcium. The resulting calcium irate crystals are one of the many pathogens of meat eating, in this case giving rise to or contributing to gout, arthritis, rheumatism, and bursitis.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Sugar metabolism - The glucose and fructose in fruits fuel our cells without straining our pancreas ( unless we eat a high-fat diet ). Meat eaters do not handle sugars well. They are prone to diabetes if they eat a diet that is predominated by fruit.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird ntestinal Flora - Humans have different bacterial colonies ( flora ) living in their intestines than those found in carnivorous animals. The ones that are similar, such as lactobacillus and e.coli are found in different ratios in the plant eaters' intestines as compared to those of the carnivores.

[TheOuijaBird]

@TheOuijaBird Natural appetite - Our mouths water at the sights and smells of the produce market. These are living foods, the source of our sustenance. But the smell of animals usually puts us off. Meat eaters' mouths water at the sight of prey, and they react to the smell of animals as though they sense food.

[haha00z]

ur 36?? U look like ur 17 lol

[SecretsOfLongevity]

@haha00z Where did you hear I was 36?

[haha00z]

@SecretsOfLongevity sorry read wrongly, how old are you?

[pinkhana]

very informative!

[WakkieRob1]

some man in india lived to 250 yrs old I wonder what he eat?

I bet he did both and neither. lol

[1too3fore]

sounds like your ego is getting the best of you

[SecretsOfLongevity]

@1too3fore If you have some counter points to what I've brought up in this video I'd love to hear them. However, if you're going to make random comments with nothing to back them up they'll be deleted. Even if you'd like to debate whether or not I'm coming from a place of "ego" you still need to back it up.

[Gary1111001]

Fruitarian doesn't have to mean 3000 cal a day. Maybe for athletes (I won't name him either). When I just eat fruit, I end up at 1800 cal a day, and do fine with that. One day I had just bananas, and got to 2600.

Fruit is more utilized than any other food, so you actually need less calories. Other food needs digestion, and more elimitative energy and may reduce life-span.

[XES119]

A fruit based diet is ideal and is the one that results in better health and lifespan.

All the people advocating low caloric diets have no clue about athletic performance or of how to mantain individuals on a raw diet/away from cooked.

Low calory (fruit based) is good, when you have low activity.

High calory (fruit based) is good, when you have high activity.

It is not possible mantain athletic performance or avoid cooked food cravings in a calory restricted diet.

So simple.

[greenfruitface]

If anyone is thinking of going raw, I would like to say do it for the right reasons. You will lose weight, yeah, but please don't treat it as a "diet". It's not a "diet". It's simply eating REAL food, in it's natural form. It's very simple and logical. You need much less (quantity-wise) vs. dead, cooked food. I'm 36, weigh 175lbs, am 6'1", and run a minimum of 3 miles a day. I feel great. I feel very fortunate to have "discovered" this, and I'm so thankful. Just thought I'd share :)

[SecretsOfLongevity]

@greenfruitface Thanks for sharing!

[stevoe1000]

Hey Zak...how old is Brian clement...I have looked everywhere but cant find it...he doesn't have one grey hair....not even on his beard...

[SecretsOfLongevity]

@stevoe1000 Somewhere between 62-64... Yeah he's a living example of what he teaches. :)

[stevoe1000]

@SecretsOfLongevity wow...this is for sure...he is in his 60's....thats amazing...thanks :)

[creejay]

you repeat the statement that a low-calorie diet is "gonna be the optimal diet for longevity" a couple times in this vid. Have there been any studies of the effect of calorie restriction on longevity in humans? From my limited knowledge of this area of study, I was under the impression that most studies of calorie restriction have involved mice and rats. Care to enlighten us?

[SecretsOfLongevity]

This is definitely a large topic that I will cover at some point, however what I can say is that yes the only full lifetime studies have been on animals, which have ALL shown to increase lifespan and the current human studies which haven't lasted a lifetime yet, are showing dramatically lowered instances of all metabolic disease (ie. diabetes, heart disease, cancers etc).

On top of the the worlds longest lived cultures all consume less than 2000 cals a day.

[rawrianna]

Yeah I know. 1 gram of protein produces about 4 calories so as 1 gram of carbohydrates and 1 gram of fat produces about 8 calories. I just felt that I can correct such a smart guy like your are and feel smart 2 :P love raw food and love spirulina.

[rawrianna]

protein actually can not be broken down to glucose from what I know..only fat

[SecretsOfLongevity]

We definitely can break it down into fuel. If you eat something like spirulina, which is pre-digested protein in amino acid form, it will give you a lot of sustained energy. The Hippocrates Health Institute's entire diet is based on getting fuel from plant based protein since it is very good for blood sugar health.

[spelchekker]

jJust looking at the thumb forget about it. Philippino women live longest out of everyone. Being gay doesn't help . That is added stress. Stressing about it doesn't help either. Being vegetarian doesn't help. We are descended from carnivores. just eat wildabeast. We are the top! Other animals eat those nutrients for us. Maybe a proper Atkin's is right

[Gary1111001]

Yes, some people such as D.R. recommend too many calories. It's not needed. I've been getting 1800 cals a day for a year. On a fruit diet, you don't need as much food, since fruit takes no energy to digest.

A lot of the U.S. has blood glucose imbalance. These are not the huge population of fruitarians! lol.

And diabetes is what you'd get on the diet you're detailing here - high fat + carbs together.

[Gary1111001]

.......Why do you disagree with Dr Doug Graham? Our bodies run on simple carbs. Also, most fruit is NOT high-glycemic.

[SecretsOfLongevity]

If you listen to all the videos you'd hear that the lifestyle I am outlining is neither high fat nor low fat.

If you listen to all three parts of this series I also explain why the "our bodies run on simple carbs" is not a good point for backing up a high fruit diet. The cells in every creature on the planet run on glucose, oxygen and small amounts of EFAs, but that doesn't mean they should all eat fruit!

[SecretsOfLongevity]

These videos emphasize that it's important to look at the science of diet, the results people are getting in the long term and what are the lifestyles of the world's longest lived cultures.

There has never been a fruitarian culture, I have never heard of a long term fruitarian/811 centenarian and all the long term (25+ yrs) people eating high fruit diets age prematurely.

The Tree of Life inst., the Hippocrates inst. (and others) are always chock full raw people getting off of high fruit diets.

[SecretsOfLongevity]

All that being said I am always open to new information and we could very well see long term successful fruitarians in a couple decades or so. At that point I'd actually see positive results, but right now there are none. Of course these diets work for a couple of years when someone has been eating a very toxic diet and let's go of the garbage.

[Gary1111001]

I've heard this flawed logic applied to high-fruit before. Have you heard the rebuttals?

"never been a fruitarian culture" - Cultures are people removing themselves from nature..... The world has long been corrupted by cooked and processed food.

"811 centenarian" - centenarians are one in a million. And simply aren't a million 811'rs. It's in the numbers.

"all the long term 811rs age prematurely."

Jay Kordach

As for Dr Graham - is it the wrinkles? Are there cultures with no wrinkles?

[SecretsOfLongevity]

In regards to Doug graham, I'm not interested in singling out one person and attacking or judging them. Many people eating high fruit diets are definitely better off than most other diets, however there are other better examples of teachers in the movement who are older chronologically yet appear far younger.

The same is true of the residents of Okinawa, Hunza, Sardinia, Ikaria and more, despite their cooked diets, they are not overeating on fruit.

BTW centenarians are 1 in 10,000.

[sydshell]

Too much green juicing and wheatgrass...Now that's addiction. All the people I know that eat these excess greens and superfoods are anemic and cold all the time....Too much tannnins

[SecretsOfLongevity]

Saying greens and superfoods cause anemia doesn't make any sense. The blood disorder of anemia is characterized by a low red blood cell count which is in large part due to an inadequate intake or absorption of iron. Although tannins can inhibit iron uptake, greens and many superfoods are very high in iron and chlorophyll and quite low in tannins when compared to many fruits.

Low-body temp problems are due to low caloric intake as well as low level chronic tension of peripheral capillary beds.

[sydshell]

@SecretsOfLongevity

You are correct; saying greens and superfoods cause anemia is crazy! Well, That's not what I said...I said Too much greens, and too much superfoods! Greens should not be eaten out of balance of other natural foods. In addition, when a food is dried, concentrated, juiced, etc., too much fructose for the liver to process, raw or not. Vitamin U is lost, and the fibers necessary to buffer that juice is not present. This is a faustian bargain if I ever saw it.

[SecretsOfLongevity]

Fruits when dried, or juiced is too much fructose for the liver, yes, but juiced greens don't contain fructose, and that's what your original statement was commenting on. The whole idea of juicing a green is to remove the fiber and HAVE it absorb quickly and not be buffered!

I'm not sure what you consider "too many greens" but of course, the whole idea behind the diagram I was demonstrating was to show how not to overeat any one "group" of foods.

[charlesobama]

fruitarians are ridiculous

[fitzgeraldhimse]

The research articles showing longevity in low-calorie diets show minuscule amounts of longevity and they are based on toxic diets. The less toxins you take in, the longer you'll live. If you are eating healthy fruits and vegetables you should be able to eat all you want because they are not toxic and eat until your INTUITION says you should stop. Maybe listen to your own message and follow your intuition and break away from the brainwashing of people trying to sell you stuff.

[fitzgeraldhimse]

Maybe you should research more about high fruit/veggie diets before you just go off what Clement tells you to think. Use your Intuition like you said.

Is it intuitive to starve yourself in nature? Your ideas make little sense and you're just feeding off these people that are selling stuff. Now go buy your Fred Bisci and LifeGive supplements and get your colonics and infrared spas because thats what you'll need to sustain yourself on such a diet as Clements or Bisci's.

[fitzgeraldhimse]

Intuition or addiction... so it is intuitive to take supplements, make green juices with juicers and grow/eat disgusting sprouts in nature and not eat delicious bananas off a tree instead? Clement has brainwashed you. Seems like you're ADDICTED to supplements and creating "tonics"--that is not intuitive, that's just fun for people that think that buying things or creating "special" things will make them healthier.

[SecretsOfLongevity]

I'll be creating videos in the future that address your baseless fears and concerns. As for calorie restriction, it is not advisable for anyone under 30 to begin this sort of practice.

Obviously you are not familiar with the overwhelming scientific literature that points towards eating less calories and living longer. I would recommend reading up on the work of Dr. Clive McCay and the vast body of research that followed him.

I totally agree that we must take in less toxins to live longer.

[sydshell]

@SecretsOfLongevity

But why should we wait till 30? Doesnt the body stop growing at 25?

[SecretsOfLongevity]

You could start whenever you want really, but 30 is the number given by many in the CRON field, specifically in the book "diet for longevity".

Some males are still winding up going through puberty into their late 30's. Especially if they grew up eating a natural diet and not a processed one full of artificial growth hormones...

[matthewlake182]

I started CRON when i was 18, im 25 now! Check out my blog sometime. Google 'matts cr' or go to link on my profile. You're very sensible! Good video :-)

[SecretsOfLongevity]

Cool, I just looked at it, I've just shared the advice some of the people who wrote "the longevity diet" give and would not be surprised to see someone young doing it successfully. :)

[joeys123321]

i read in a muscle building ebook that peter ragnar wrote that you need to eat between 4000-6000 calories, but then he then stated that if u eat raw food you can reduce this number, but he didnt say by how much. he also stated that he wakes up in the middle of the night and eat 2-3 banannas for calories, i wish he would have a blog of what he eats or something similar, im interested in what he does but the information on him is limited, thx for video

[SecretsOfLongevity]

Since Peter is such a big guy, he can get away with more calories since his body is running at a higher metabolic rate... however he also supplements with resveratrol which mimics calorie restriction (although the science doesn't show 100% success with that yet).

I have a raw vegan friend who is about Peter's size and eats 2500 cals a day. Wade Mcnutt who's even bigger than either of them eats a mere 2000 a day on average!

I'd like to see Peter's regime too, I'm sure it's always shifting.