Guruduth Banavar

the people who have the lowest biological age relative to their chronological age are vegetarians.

No way.

Vegetarians, which is a combination of plant-based foods, but a little bit of animal foods as well, right?

You can have yogurt, for example.

Some people have eggs and so on and so forth.

Vegans have a little bit less in terms of the difference between their chronological and biological age.

On the other side of the spectrum, people who come in with very heavy meat-based diets like paleo or keto or something, they had biological age that is greater than their chronological age.

Wow.

And we published this data in one of the papers that we've recently picked up.

So it tells you, right, your lifestyle matters.

And when you look at all of the AI techniques that we've used to build these biological aging models, you know, the AI is looking for generic patterns.

It's not being, you know...

It's given all the data that we already have from a very large population.

We're just asking the question, hey, tell me more about what is the difference between people with certain diets and people with certain other diets.

And you can see a very stark difference between these categories of people.

Yeah, you know, it's actually very now well-established that plant-based, you know, fibers, which are prebiotics, right, are a very good input to your microbiome.

Right?

So many short-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria look for these...

you know, hard fibers to break down and convert that into butyrate and propionate and acetate and so forth, right?

So those are the short chain fatty acids, which are very good for you for many things, energy for anti-inflammatory effects and so on and so forth.