Dr. Michael Greger
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These dark green leafy vegetables, right?
Massive amounts of nutrition.
Actually, it has those nitrates, those athletic performance enhancing ergogenic nitrates.
Wow.
actually helps slow our metabolic rate.
And the candle that burns half as bright burns twice as long.
That's the other food associated with literally living years longer, dark green leafy vegetables.
Nuts, dark green leafy vegetables.
And we think it's because of the nitrates.
Normally, you only get that kind of metabolic slowing with our resting metabolic rate with severe caloric restriction.
But instead of walking around starving all the time, you can just eat a big salad.
Don't skip breakfast.
Most important meal of the day.
Really?
Most important meal of the day.
Yes.
Allow the cells to- I know, I know.
I talk about that back and forth.
I actually have videos about it.
It's so funny because you start out the video and be like, yeah, breakfast.