Valery Mamonov

Longevity Mystery Solved Valery Mamonov

This book is a revised and updated part (chapters 15 through18) of my book, Control for Life Extension. A Personalized Holistic Approach, first published in 2001 and reprinted in 2020. It focuses on nutrition and diets, particularly those of long-living people and centenarians that I study for the last thirty years. You will find a review and analysis of nutrition and diets discussed in an unconventional way which reflects a holistic view of this author. All macronutrients, protein, fats, and carbohydrates, are indispensable in a healthy diet but consumed in excess or of the wrong kind impose health threats. Excessive protein intake is linked to cancer and CVD. Contrary to the official health recommendations, meat protein in beef, pork, poultry, and seafood, marine and freshwater fish, and cheese was found to have a negative correlation with CVD mortality. The same negative correlation with CVD mortality was found for animal fat (lard, offal) and dairy fat but a positive correlation for sunflower oil rich in ?-6 that is abundant in other vegetable oils. High consumption of cereals and wheat, the most prevalent carbohydrate, but not rice, increase the risk of CVD. Caloric restriction or periodic fasting is a proven way to extend the duration of life. A lifelong intake of about 1,600 to 1,800 kcal for both men and women is the key that opens the gate to the longevity garden. Lower than this optimal calorie intake (non-eating people) or much higher (sumo wrestlers) shortens life span. Centenarians around the world, along with mostly plant-based foods, eat some meat, fish, and dairy products, which sustain them in disease-free, robust-health, and high-vitality condition for a century or more. An outstanding longevity food is sweet potatoes, a staple of Okinawan centenarians. Well documented cases of Christian mystics like Thérèse Neumann or Marthe Robin that have abstained from food for decades merit inquiry for a curious mind. My visit to China to meet a mysterious young woman, Xu Fang, who allegedly lived without food for 13 years (at that time) gave me a chance to witness an unexplained phenomenon of human potential. Among a handful of living now people who practice inedia or non-eating, she seems to be a real case worthy of scientific investigation.