Dr. Michael Greger

But for kind of the general public,

we're really left with senolytic compounds in natural foods.

There are three of them that have been shown to clear senescent cells in the body.

One is facetin, which has really only found one place in concentrated form, and that's in strawberries.

So, that's why I end up in the book, in that chapter, recommending fresh frozen or freeze-dried strawberries into your daily diet.

Normally, I would have put, like, if you're putting some on your oatmeal or something, I would have put, like, blackberries.

Blackberries have five times the antioxidants as strawberries.

So, look, if you like them both, you know, why not?

But I didn't know about facetin, which is really only found in strawberries.

So if you're not eating strawberries, you're really not getting into your daily diet.

So I've been eating a lot more strawberries.

Wow.

Okay, the second, something called quercetin.

Quercetin is found in onions, kale, tea, and capers.

And actually play a role in Mediterranean diet help.

And that helps explain these remarkable studies where they give people onions and see remarkable benefits literally within an hour.

You can randomize people eating onions.

In fact, you can randomize people to eat high quercetin onions versus bread to be low quercetin onions and show that it does appear to be this one compound.

And so, of course, there's quercetin supplements everywhere.

It's not clear.