Maybe the point is that taking advice from ANY single person is a bad idea since thay are making conclusions from a sample size of 1, while a "scientist" is telling you things that are statistically more likely to help you?
It's quite unintuitive but us mere mortals are not experts in our own health/longevity.
We know our own bodies better than anybody else experimentally speaking, but we don't know shit about how it works for the most part and we know even less how others work.
Unless it's your area of expertise of course, but then I hope you'll avoid spreading unproven advice.
The guy quoted in the article, Faragher, seems completely unaware of his biogeronologist collegue Valter Longo at the USC Davis School of Geronology and Longevity Institute, whose recommendations have picked up mainstream adoption by the public. Of course, he is probably aware of Longo but he is probably unaware that his statements as quoted in the article, contradict Longo's own first hand research and other additional research on centenarian studies.
In fact, the unhealthy habits that Farragher says are common among most old people are in fact not common lifelong habits of centenarians, according to Longo.
If Faragher is aware of the contradiction then he should state on what evidence and research he is disputing Longo's findings.
Based on his research, Longo's recommendation is basically:
Eat vegetables, complex carbs and whole grains most of the time, fish ocassionally, meat very rarely unless over 65, and fast some of the time.
Longo in fact claims that these are supported--along with epistmilogical and clinical studies-- by centarian studies which are literally first-hand detailed interviews with 100+ year-old people.
Farragher's incomplete explanation of survivorship bias also seems to have confused other commentators in this thread.
jraph|1 year ago
It's quite unintuitive but us mere mortals are not experts in our own health/longevity.
We know our own bodies better than anybody else experimentally speaking, but we don't know shit about how it works for the most part and we know even less how others work.
Unless it's your area of expertise of course, but then I hope you'll avoid spreading unproven advice.
sillyfluke|1 year ago
In fact, the unhealthy habits that Farragher says are common among most old people are in fact not common lifelong habits of centenarians, according to Longo.
If Faragher is aware of the contradiction then he should state on what evidence and research he is disputing Longo's findings.
Based on his research, Longo's recommendation is basically:
Eat vegetables, complex carbs and whole grains most of the time, fish ocassionally, meat very rarely unless over 65, and fast some of the time.
Longo in fact claims that these are supported--along with epistmilogical and clinical studies-- by centarian studies which are literally first-hand detailed interviews with 100+ year-old people.
Farragher's incomplete explanation of survivorship bias also seems to have confused other commentators in this thread.