So we should embrace the “Warren Buffet Longevity Diet” of McDonalds and Coke? When is the Berkshire Hatheway Wellness clinic opening so I can sign up!
(No need to respond: I’m obviously kidding, and I, too, occasionally eat at McD’s, although feel like crap afterwards but crave it for weeks…something’s not right there. Also, when I was at my fattest and under tremendous multi-dimensional stress I’d sneak a lunch at a McD’s near my office and although I don’t think this was the “cause” of my “prosperous form”, I’m sure it was indicative of bad eating habits in general).
“I always tell people: I found everything I like to eat by the time I was six,” Buffett said Wednesday in an interview with Becky Quick on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in Tokyo. “I mean, why should I fool around with all these other foods?”
“I know all these people eat all these green things and everything,” he said. “But if somebody told me I would live an extra year if I ate nothing but broccoli and a few other things all my life instead of eating what I like to eat, I would say take the year off the end of my life and … let me eat what I like to eat.”
Buffett said he’s gotten to his age with the habits of a six-year-old and has been lucky to mostly be in good health.
“I think happiness makes an enormous amount of difference … in terms of longevity,” he said. “I’m happier when I’m eating hot fudge sundaes or drinking Coke.”
I think Peter Attia said in his recent book that when you look for solid evidence that shows a profound effect in nutrition, it’s really hard to say that we know anything about anything beyond:
don’t overconsume calories
don’t underconsume protein
avoid excess saturated fat
don’t limit your diet so much that you end up with a specific deficiency
Otherwise, it’s really hard to prove that who follows those rules and eats at mcdonalds vs someone who has organic homemade chia bowls every day is going to have a different specific measurable impact on their longevity.
I’m pretty sure most scientists and doctors regardless of diet/“tribe” would add “eat whole, fresh foods with as few pesticides, herbicides, preservatives, and other extraneous chemicals”. Which would likely exclude McDonalds.
I am embarassingly looking into trying Bryan Johnson’s protocol again.
My best experiences has not been about food, the long tail of positive valence. Prolonging health and longevity will aid in getting keep having those experiences, and better. He also kind of looks rejuvenated.
It’s optimizing only one part and it might make us peasants live in good health and long enough until longevity therapies become more affordable, using healthspan/longevity drugs etc at the same time of course as if on McDonald’s diet.
I’m going to try to go cold turkey. Just have to buy a new blender since I gave mine away lol. I appreciate his striving for greatness, like Lustgarten. The McDonald’s + drugs protocol is kind of boring.
Next I will be sorting by calories per 100 gram excluding spices so it’s easier to make recipes. Also calories per $. Hardest part with this type of diet is probably getting enough calories.
I read “blood boy” for a second rather than blood orange when skimming the list . Bryan is living rent free in my head.
Genistein
K2 mk4
K2 mk7
K1
Vitamin D blood level 75-125 nM
Magnesium
High g force exercise
Since his BMD (Bone Mineral Density) is top 0.02% of 30 year olds, I am suspecting this is genuine age reversal and not only that an improvement as that seems like an impossible achievement due to random chance.
Here’s the ready-made food he’s developing under the brand name 0th principle nutrition, that’s going to be good for a lot of people (picture in black and white).
I tried a blueprint lite protocol and I had almost immediate physical benefits (and cognitive), my nostrils opened up too and I could breathe again. I think it’s either the low sodium diet somehow improving my hydration, or caloric restriction, or some food I am reacting to that I excluded. Investigating what it is. Only negative seems to be a decreased BV (blood volume) from low sodium leading to decreased fitness, which mine already was low in the first place. If I can repeat this and sustain it and it’s going to be great.
I haven’t tried this, but I really like nutty pudding.
I like the idea of this meal prep and not thinking about food, but IDK if I could eat the same everyday. How do you find this?
I don’t think I could meal prep in a way so I eat everything different every meal. But the plan is at least having the black lentils every day, and the nutty pudding if it works for me, then meal prep different meals for the third meal. In the video above they seem to meal prep the beet salad from his protocol, for example.
I find black lentils as well as black beans hard to digest. Lentils are great, but I like them French style - green. Wondering why BJ chose black vs green lentils.
Black lentils have a very high antioxidant content compared to other beans, whatever that means.
You have to cook them so they are almost so soft they will turn into mush, likewise with other lentils if you cook them from dry. I used to eat a lot of lentils long ago so my microbiome might’ve adapted as well.
. Bryan is living rent free in my head.
