Dr. Michael Greger

If there was a pill, and there certainly are supplements out there that help people getting in and out with sunshine, they take vitamin D, and alcoholics have it, and pregnant women have certain, I mean, there's absolutely needs for supplements, right?

But there's, in terms of longevity, in terms of like, I went through, and I went into this book thinking I would be recommending some of these supplements that have made a lot of news, just because I'd heard such positive things about them, but when you look in the literature,

And I would love to, because it's like, that's such a great hook.

Like, take this one supplement and it's got to do X. I would love to be able to say that.

But they fell one by one.

Boom, boom, boom.

But what I did find is that these just random foods I had never heard about, like cardamom or, you know, strawberries, one example, or mushrooms have these things that I... And it's just like normal natural foods have these extraordinary effects.

It's kind of not as sexy.

You can't just like take it a little bit.

But on one hand, look, it's delicious.

I mean, it's not as convenient, right?

Right.

But...

Again, it really comes down to the food.

And it's just not a lot of money to be made.

And so we just don't hear about these studies because there's just no corporate budget driving this promotion.

I've got a whole chapter on glycation, one of the aging pathways, and recommend two teaspoons of vinegar with every meal.

That's one of the, absolutely.

And one of the reasons is because it does something called AMPK.

Because vinegar is acetic acid in water, by definition.