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The keys to anti-aging and anti-brain degradation are daily intermittent fasting, plant/fruit based diet, low sodium, low fatty foods, and low stress. Many monks in the far east follow this and live well into their 120s

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No they don't live well in to their 120s. You just made that up.

> "In fact, it is not uncommon for a Tibetan monk to live to 120 years of age"

Just one of many sources its very well documented that monks live very long lives. Not sure why hes being downvoted.

blog.peterbaksa.com/post/9719815756/tibetan-monks-my-lama-temple-interviews

It's totally true.. links to Law of Attraction blog

Come on now.

He's being downvoted because it's not true. The oldest person on record was 122. If there were a bunch of Tibetan monks walking around at 120+ we'd know about it.

Just like everyone knows about the drastically different disease rate in orthodox monks?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a-foolproof-anti-cancer-d...

Many eastern tibetan monks claim to be 120+ years old. Due to the nature of their lives its very hard to document birth to death. Of course people deny it because its not "on record." likely due to longevity bias that humans naturally have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity_myths

There's true, false, not proven. It (claim to be 120+ years old) is not proven. Necessarily, it's not true. If it becomes true in the future, the studies would be interesting. That's obvious. Basing any sort of continued argument or worse, research, on wishful thinking is something left up to you.

According to Dr. James DiNicolantonio, we should be eating more salt, not less (https://twitter.com/drjamesdinic), but I agree about the intermittent fasting.

I think the dangers of a high sodium diet are pretty well documented, especially in the west where they have very high obesity rates. I would take Dr. DiNicolantonio's advice with a "grain of salt" haha

Documented in what way? All studies focus on people who already have heart disease. Just because sedentary couch potatoes on a high salt diet get sick does not prove causation from the salt. Everyone's body has built in regulatory systems to maintain isotonic balance and excrete the excess. We couldn't have crawled out of the sea without this fundamental ability. But, of couse, everybody knows salt is bad.

> Documented in what way?

Some of the most reputable organizations in medicine have documented the dangers of an high sodium diet.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/salt-and-sodium...

https://www.cdc.gov/salt/pdfs/children_sodium.pdf

There are still some people that believe that smoking doesn't cause cancer after decades of research. In the end you are free to believe as you wish. Godspeed

Sodium, while a main (50%) ingredient of salt, gets into us for example with the probably most popular ingredient ever, monosodium glutamate. I personally believe it's the excess of one polarity ion over another that's detrimental to our health.

Well, I've read that 2-3g per kg at once can actually kill you. It's even a method of suicide.

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