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• The Benefits of Caloric Restriction Without the Actual Restricting (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-benefits-of-caloric-restriction-without-the-actual-restricting/)
• Caloric Restriction vs. Animal Protein Restriction (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/caloric-restriction-vs-animal-protein-restriction/)
• Caloric Restriction vs. Plant-Based Diets (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/caloric-restriction-vs-plant-based-diets/)
• The Benefits of Calorie Restriction for Longevity (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-benefits-of-calorie-restriction-for-longevity/)<
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“Purina Monkeychow” 🤣😂🤣
Monkeys are significantly smarter than carnitards
It's so mind-boggling how pathetic so many studies are with their controls and diet comparisons. I just can't help but be like what the f*** are these people thinking half the time. But I guess in the grand scheme of things it all contributes to the data…
What's your favorite monkey joke? I snatched this cute list from a random google search result called mkewithkids:
1. Why did the banana split? It saw a monkey coming.
2. What do you call a flying monkey? A hot air baboon.
3. Where do monkeys get their gossip? On the ape vine.
4. What do you call an angry monkey? Furious George
5. Why don’t monkeys play cards in the jungle? There are too many cheetahs!
6. What do you get when you cross a monkey and a skunk? A stinky monkey!
7. What do you call a monkey that loves chocolate? A choco-chimp!
8. What is a monkey’s favorite clothing store? Banana Republic
9. What is a monkey’s favorite book? Hairy Potter
10. What do monkeys sing at Christmas? Jungle Bells.
11. If there were no bananas, what fruit would monkeys choose? Ape-ricots.
12. What’s a monkey’s favorite kind of lap top? An Ape-le Mac
13. Why did the monkey take its banana to the doctors? It wasn’t peeling good.
14. What do you call a little monkey? A chimp off the old block.
15. What kind of a key opens a banana? A mon-key
16. What do you call a monkey that loves disco? A funky monkey!
17. Two monkeys are in the bath. One turns to the other and says, “Oooo ooo aah aahh!” The second monkey says, “Well, put some cold water in then!”
18. Why did the monkey go to space? To visit the planet of the apes!
19. Why was the monkey a terrible bus driver? Because he kept monkeying around with the steering wheel!
20. Why did the monkey break up with his girlfriend? Because she kept telling him he wasn’t her prime mate!
21. Why did the monkey break up with his girlfriend? She was too much of a cheetah!
22. Why did the monkey go to the art gallery? To see the ape-stract paintings!
23. What type of monkey is the best to go to a party with? A funky monkey!
24. What should you bring to a party in the jungle? Chimps and dip!
25. How did the chimpanzees escape from the zoo? With a monkey wrench.
26. What do you call a monkey with a PhD? A doctor-ape!
27. What’s the best time of year to see gorillas in the wild? Ape-ril.
28. What does a monkey wear when they are cooking? An ape-ron
29. What did the monkey say when he caught his tail in the door? It won’t be long now!
30. Why don’t monkeys eat potato chips? Bananas are more ap-peeling!
31. What do monkeys call their best friends? Their prime mates.
32. Why did the monkey go to the playground? To play on the monkey bars!
33. What do you call a monkey that’s always taking selfies? A snap-chimp!
34. Why did the monkey go to the amusement park? To ride the monkey-go-round!
35. What do you call a monkey that loves to paint? An art-ape!
36. Why did the monkey go to the bakery? To get a loaf of monkey-bread.
37. What do you call a monkey at the North Pole? Lost.
38. Why did the monkey open a bakery? To make his famous chocolate chimp cookies.
39. What do you call a monkey that’s in charge of its tree? A Branch Manager!
40. Where do monkeys go for a drink? The monkey bars.
41. What does the monkey do at work? Take care of some Monkey business.
42. What’s the difference between a poorly dressed monkey on a tricycle and a well-dressed monkey on a bicycle? Attire.
43. Where do monkeys work out? At the jungle gym.
44. What does a monkey lawyer study? The law of the jungle.
45. What did the monkey say when he saw the banana peel? I’m slipping into something more comfortable!
46. Why did King Kong join the army? To become an expert in gorilla warfare!
47. Why did the spider monkey crawl onto the computer? To search the web.
48. Knock, knock. Who’s there? Boo.Boo who? Don’t cry, it’s just me, monkeying around!
49. Knock, knock.Who’s there? Alpaca.Alpaca who? Alpaca the monkey, now let’s go!
50. Knock, knock.Who’s there? Juno.Juno who? Juno that monkeys love knock-knock jokes, right?
51. Knock, knock. Who’s there? Gladys.Gladys who? Gladys is me, who else could it be, silly monkey!
52. Knock, knock.Who’s there? Omar. Omar who? Omar goodness, I can’t believe I’m still knocking on this tree, let me in!
53. What’s a monkey’s favorite kind of bread? Banana bread!
54. What happens when you double cross a monkey? They go bananas.
55. Where should a monkey go if she loses her tail? To a re-tail-er.
Gorilla Jokes:
56. What do you call a gorilla that can sing? “Ape-ratic”!
57. Why did the gorilla join the circus? He wanted to learn “Ape-robatics”!
58. What’s a gorilla’s favorite store? The Ape-ple store.
59. Why did the 600-pound gorilla go to the therapist? He had a “heavy heart”!
60. What’s the first thing a gorilla learns in school? The ape b c’s
61. Why did the Gorilla fail its exam? He didn’t have the ape-titude.
62. What sort of monkeys feel unwell? Gor-ill-as.
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Fascinating. I'm glad to see more evidence in the camp of we don't know as it's nice to eat a fair amount. What I wonder is if working out gives the same benefits as fasting and/or caloric restriction is said to. If I recall, the way they are alleged to help longevity are through a similar process. Ideally, it would nice if eating a reasonable amount and working out is optimal. But if working out and fasting sometimes were optimal it would be worth considering — at least sometimes.
Excellent! Clears up a question I've had. thankyou..
Thank you! 😻
Good information, thank you
I could be wrong but I remember Dr. Longo saying something like CR doesn't have any effects if you're already a healthy vegan. Makes sense now.
Go out and look around. The vast majority of people you see are obese or al least over weight.
People do not need to be fat shamed BUT being over weight is not healthy and leads to a host of illnesses.
When you look around you can see all the unhealthy people without taking a blood test or a fitness test
"NORMAL" for the average American is "UNHEALTHY" The health of society is in decline.
Science is wonderful
Mineral deficient soils and endocrine disrupting petrochemistry, combined with an idolization of fasting and weight loss, are a monkey trial in deed. Been there, done that.
Did anyone else see 'Monkey Trial' and think something completely different? Yeah, I'm old.
Vivisection destroys human consciousness.
It is a very messy subject – no good experiments yet.
The CR Society in humans is closer, as they try to eat healthfully and report more, but still, humans still tend to underestimate intake, and those tolerating it poorly stop for their own sake.
We really don't have an answer yet.
And it is annoying,
That with 9 billion of us,
We still must guess for our health,
Rather than have an experiment.
While many may be tempted into harm reading about the benefits of CR.
I have tried it, vegan, healthy of course, for about two years in the past. It is different to be sure.
It may have an effect on your mind.
It's just different…
And of course as I eat only a WFPB diet, one which Dr. G would approve, with d3 om3 suppl., — it comes out to CR levels acc to calorie need calculators. Constantly averaging 1800 kcals/d, each year, over years, 5'7" M, 24, active, 145lbs. 6:18 IF starting at 1p or 2. But I'm just one data point – it is no use. According to the NIH study, I'm not doing CR now, but maintenance intake.
I tell you, it can tempt unsuspecting bright youths to try it, quoting "no cognitive impairments" in the literature. And yet there is not the data to demonstrate its risks. Unacceptable.
As you can see, I tried it, and found it wanted peaceful environments, and higher % prot intake – and still had concerning effects on sleep quality for me. So, I do not do it these days. It gets harder to continue the leaner you get – and I did not try to reduce exercise or increase total protein, because it could cause muscle atrophy and antifasting, respectively. Had negative effects on creative ideation, sleep duration, background pragmatic thinking, and increased desire for exercise, while lowering resting EE, so that I will sit or lie very still otherwise, and wore more clothes.
I have tried for a half year 1650 and 1700 averages, a puny reduction, and for shorter month or two durations 1550, and 1600.
The effects were very similar – I slimmed faster on lower, but once lean, it felt like that same questionable oddness. Like the opposite of a hobbit. Thinking of food often, even with second breakfast, but jolly wouldn't be the right word.
I don't recommend anyone to try below maintenance. There isn't understanding here.
I do recommend the diet which Dr. Greger talks about all on his channel, website, and books, eating to maintain your weight at a healthy BMI. As far as the calorie calculators – I don't know if I am the outlier here, but I cannot eat more, nor would I like to. 1800 suits me fine, and more than that and I'd want to be doing much more exercise than I'd like, while even now, I do a great deal of activity which itself must be worked into the day with time.
Got some fossils here , mostly Nautilus and Amonites , .ca 65 mill years old . And I wonder …
Monkey business
OK, so basically, David Sinclair is just a fraud.
Calorie restriction works because you are restricting shitty foods from a shitty diet.
When you have a healthy diet with real food, calorie restriction doesn't do much.
That's what Peter Attia said recently. Caloric restriction compared to eating healthy at maintanance calories would not provide any additional longevity benefits.
This shows that junk food harms us – it's not just empty calories that put on weight. It harms us in addition to the harms of weight gain.
Hey Doc! What are your thoughts on the NAC supplement?
Is there anything new or just same old over and over?
I love this channel!
I read that the monkeys in the restricted eating group had bad tempers, were agitated, and appeared to be compulsively waiting each day for their food to arrive and when it did, they would rush to it and gobble it up immediately. These are classic signs of starvation. Not only did it not help them live any longer, but calorie restriction was annoying to no end, to the monkeys.
Can you please put out a video about this Ozempic drug coming out, if you haven’t already? It seems finally there is a drug that will make people feel full, lose weight, and then in the meantime they can go back to not caring about eating the right foods, and there are so many side effects💔
Ty for your book and covering Longevity ❤