Dr. David Sinclair

And so now I rarely eat meat.

I rarely drink alcohol.

I focus on really fresh, high-quality food.

preferably organic foods because I don't want pesticides and I don't want other contaminants.

But I do know organic can be more expensive.

Why not meat?

So animals, unfortunately, don't make what are called polyphenols, which are a type of molecule that I believe and have evidence turns on the sirtuins and other pathways, biochemical reactions that delay ageing.

So sirtuins are just one of a few enzymes that control aging.

We know this.

There's sirtuins, there's mTOR, which responds to aminos, and another one called AMPK.

So those three pathways are altered in just the right way by molecules found only in plants.

Well, and a small extent in fungi, but not in meat.

So if you're not eating a lot of vegetables or fruits, you're not getting these molecules.

They're like medicine as food.

So right here, I hope you don't mind me mentioning that there is some food in front of us.

And I'm looking at blueberries here.

Blueberries are packed.

with polyphenols one of the reasons they have purple color is that polyphenols have the color and as serena would tell you eat the rainbow i call it xenohormesis which is not as attractive but xenohormesis is the same idea as eat the rainbow that by eating plants that have a lot of these molecules that are often produced by stressed plants when you say stressed plants

So plants will be stressed just like we are.

If you don't give them enough water, food, too much sunlight, not enough sunlight, in their defense, they make polyphenols.