Reverse Aging on a Controversial Diet

[PeterT]

https://fortune.com/well/2025/03/31/keto-diet-reverse-biological-aging/

[PeterT]

Of course this article (not from the study itself) does say LDL level might be bad    lacks vitamins and restricting to 800 calories has risks ..... usual crap. Who here eats under 800 calories? 

[Scott F.]

Not me. I'm in the +800 club.

Scott

[Geezy]

Articles like this just tick me off. They don’t detail the study so there’s no way of knowing how it was conducted or what biases there may be and most of those “studies” are far from scientific. 
Then the article, like so many of them, puts out some positive information but turns right around and has to put out a caveat of lies.  
Gee, let’s not bother to actually show the real studies that show that cholesterol isn’t a factor in cardiovascular health and that meat is so nutritionally dense that we get all of the nutrients we need for proper health. 

None of us are guaranteed a certain amount of days 

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. James 4:14 ESV

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12 ESV
 

What’s important is that we fuel our bodies with the most nutritious food possible and refrain from eating anything that we shouldn’t so that we can obtain optimal heath and our bodies will take care of everything else. 
 

I have no idea if by eating carnivore that I will live longer, there may just be too much damage, but I do know how good I feel and I will enjoy what life I have left feeling good. Beats being miserable. 
When I started being a carnivore I was 66 years old and felt like I was 86 just waiting to die in misery. 
Today I’m 68 and feel like I’m 48 with a life and future ahead of me. 

[Scott F.]

10 hours ago, Geezy said:

Articles like this just tick me off. They don’t detail the study so there’s no way of knowing how it was conducted or what biases there may be and most of those “studies” are far from scientific. 
Then the article, like so many of them, puts out some positive information but turns right around and has to put out a caveat of lies.  
Gee, let’s not bother to actually show the real studies that show that cholesterol isn’t a factor in cardiovascular health and that meat is so nutritionally dense that we get all of the nutrients we need for proper health. 

None of us are guaranteed a certain amount of days 

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. James 4:14 ESV

 

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Psalm 90:12 ESV
 

What’s important is that we fuel our bodies with the most nutritious food possible and refrain from eating anything that we shouldn’t so that we can obtain optimal heath and our bodies will take care of everything else. 
 

I have no idea if by eating carnivore that I will live longer, there may just be too much damage, but I do know how good I feel and I will enjoy what life I have left feeling good. Beats being miserable. 
When I started being a carnivore I was 66 years old and felt like I was 86 just waiting to die in misery. 
Today I’m 68 and feel like I’m 48 with a life and future ahead of me. 

The last paragraph is absolutely golden. I have only been on Carnivore for just shy of 11 months. I have some bloodwork that says I am healthier. I have stopped taking some medicines that were needed prior to carnivore. I have lost a bunch of weight with minimal effort. And above all that I know I feel better than I did 11 months ago. Will this current way of eating prolong my life, maybe, maybe not, but from this point to that point I feel like I will feel better than if I had stayed my previous course.

I also agree with the validity of some studies which are based on questionnaires and unfounded comments. I think that happens on both sides of any debate. Most of the time the funding plays too big of a role in how a study ends up. We had this very conversation at work last week. I was in the minority with our Engineers and science crowd.

A couple threw some analogies on me from their viewpoint so I tossed this one back out there as we talked carnivore vs. non-carnivore.

If I tie a brick to your foot and push you in deep water, you will struggle to stay afloat. If I tie a second brick to your foot you will submerge, fight like mad to get some air, submerge and fight your way up for the next breath. 

Most everything gives to 'time under tension'. If we have problems we put for the effort and a certain amount of effort over a certain amount of time can solve a problem. Time under tension. Works both in a positive light and in a negative light. Time under tension is the key to most everything we do,

If that first brick is the dumpster trash diet the bodily is greatly affected, and if that second brick is the amount of time a person ate the trash diet that is time under tension.

Then,  I hand you an ink pen and you sink to the bottom and drown. Can I say based on my current study if you hold an ink pen while swimming you will drown? A lot of studies will not factor that into studies so either side can be right. One group can say the time under tension caused him to drown and the other group can actually say an ink pen while swimming will indeed cause drowning. 

And whatever side spends the most money is what the general public is then fed.

Funny how science can work sometimes.

Scott

 

[Geezy]

Excellent Scott.