I will give my
arguments defending this diet in the following rounds, and I will
waste a few characters talking to my opponent. Thanks RationalMadman
in accepting this debate. I want to take this time to also remind you
of the structure you agreed to by accepting this debate. Please read
the description to understand it. I actually did not have as much
time to write this as I thought I would either so unfortunately I am
probably giving Mr. Madman a 20,000 character advantage, but I look
forward to reading his diet plan anyway and hopefully we all learn
from it.
I advocate for a
diet regimen that increases the length of a person’s life so they
can live long enough to see the technological changes that will help
them to live even longer. The diet regimen is part of a bigger
regimen to increase your life span. The plan offered here will be 3
diet prongs that will allow everyone who adopts it to live a longer
life, barring any unforeseen circumstances.
Prongs
1. Eating Choices
2. Supplements/drugs
3. Eating Style
Before we get
further, let’s define diet. I don’t want some silly rhetorical
debate to distract from the essence of what this debate is supposed
to be about. I do want the definition to have more of a descriptive
than prescriptive role, because of the naturally ambiguous way that
language works.
Definitions
1. “the
usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)” [1]
DIET
APPROACH
As
humans we have a limited maximum lifespan of about 120 years.[2] Our
average lifespan is about 80 years. Technology
is constantly advancing at an exponential rate, which includes health
technology. The concerning part is that we can’t know with 100%
certainty when a cure for aging will occur. Most likely it will
happen in our lifetime. [3] So we must prioritize adopting a diet
that will keep us around as long as possible so we can reach the
point where technology can stop and even reverse aging.
The
younger we are, the more conservative we can afford to be with
our diet approaches to extending our lifespans as much as possible.
As we age, we need to be more aggressive moving over to really paying
attention to and adopting bleeding edge breakthroughs. This is
because the older we are, the more we are at risk of dying without
being present for the health care advances that will stop and reverse
aging.
The
fact that we can be more conservative with our approaches at a
younger age, does not mean we can afford to be conservative, with our
approach to fighting off death. Since
we don’t know when these technologies will occur, only that they
will occur. Most likely in our lifetime, but there is no guarantee. All
we know, is that the longer we live, the more likely it is to occur
in our lifetime.
PRONG 1 Choices
The whole point of the
diet I am laying out is to make it practical. If we aimed for
optimal, it will usually fail us because as humans optimal approaches
are theoretical and very hard to implement, so we need to lean
towards systems that take into account our psychology and how well we
will be able to personally implement such systems. The point of
systems is not to achieve would is optimal, but is to create the most
practical approach to moving us closer to optimal nutrition.
Being overweight leads
to a bunch of health problems. Problems such as cancer, diabetes,
high blood pressure, heart problems, stroke, kidney disease and many
many more. [4]
Other than overeating,
and inactivity. One of the leading causes of obesity is a diet high
in simple carbs.[5] Simple carbs are usually full of empty calories
and have been known to be addictive, cause heart disease and diabetes
as well. [6]
The Main problem with
simple carbs is it is not a nutrient dense food. If we are going to
consume fewer calories, we need to focus on nutrient dense foods, to
meet the recommended daily allowance of certain vitamins and
minerals.
I recommend people start
by just eliminating any product with sugar by any of the names it
goes by. Before you buy and item in the grocery store. If it says
sugar, high fructose corn syrup or really any name you don’t
recognize, just don’t buy or consume it. I would also avoid fruit
juices.
The next way to easily
eliminate simple carbs, is to reduce the amount of flour in your
diet. Look at the first 3 ingredients on your product label. If it
says flour, don’t even think about consuming it. I am going to give
you a list of rules to follow along to at the bottom of this paper to
make it easy. Closely follow these rules for a year before you start
adding onto them, to bring your diet close to the optimal range, or
if you prefer just follow this as outlined and you will already have
added several years to your life.
This is just the
beginning. This is the bare minimum white belt stuff. To get your
next belt you need to implement new things you learn about your body
and nutrition on a gradual basis, so the new habits stick. Ideally
you look at some charts on nutritional density after you do the white
belt phase for a year and swap your foods with similar but more
nutrient dense foods, while eliminating the worst ones completely.
PRONG 2
Supplements/Drugs
If you just sit back and
eat the right things, you might not maximize your ability to live as
long as possible. Drug use is not all bad, and I am going to advocate
for some drug use right now, as all responsible adults should.
Here are your new rule
to add to the list at the bottom of this page.
4. Take Metformin daily
5. Pulse dose Rapamycin
6. Take a daily omega 3
fatty acid supplement
Metformin
Metformin is an
extremely safe drug. It has been used to tread diabetes since the
1940s and is now the most common drug to be chosen to treat diabetes.
Up to a 2000 mg dose has been proven to be safe on humans.[7] So
there is no reason to think to be overly cautious about taking this
drug.
Besides being safe it is
proven effective at keeping people alive. Lifeextension.com says;
“roundworms
treated with metformin have higher AMPK
activity and
live about 20% longer
than untreated control animals. Mice treated with metformin have been
found to live nearly 6% longer
than controls.And most impressively, diabetics taking metformin were
shown to live 15% longer
than healthy individuals without diabetes!”
Metformin
has been proven to reduce your chances of getting, heart disease,
cancer or fat. It is truly a miracle drug everyone should take.
Everyone who doesn’t fall into the population of people who
normally have adverse effects from it anyway.
I would
recommend doctor hopping for a while until you find one willing to
prescribe you metformin, and discuss the dosages you would need to
take.
Rapamycin
The
reccommended way to take Rapamycin is
“Rapamycin
taken in a pulsatile way. Suppress mTor1 inhibition without mTor2
inhibition.
2-5
mg every 5 to 7 days is probably the dosage sweet spot.”[8]
The thing
to know about MTOR1 is that it causes the production of senescent
cells. These are cells that cause damaging of tissues and leads to
diseases. Taking Rapamycin can prevent this destruction. [9] In short
Rapamycin dramatically slows a lot of the aging processes. It
prevents cancer, heart disease, diabetes and many other diseases that
come from the aging process. This should be another tool to keep you
from dying for as long as possible.
Omega 3
Dr.
William Li says;
“
A 16-year
study of
2,692 senior adults done in 2013 by the Harvard School of Public
Health and the University of Washington concluded that a diet rich in
fish actually predicts longevity…. participants whose blood showed
high levels of omega-3 PUFAs lived an average of 2.2 years longer
than those without high levels of PUFAs in their blood. High levels
of blood omega-3s were also associated with a 27 percent decrease in
overall mortality risk, and with a 35 percent decrease in the risk of
mortality from heart disease …..One
specific omega-3 — known as DHA — was associated with a 40
percent decreased risk of dying from coronary heart disease, and was
…. associated with a reduction in death caused by arrhythmia
(irregular heartbeat).”[10]
This is a
no brainer. Find a reputable supplement seller and buy some omega 3
fatty acid, to extend your life expectancy.
PRONG 3 Style7.
Incorporate regular fasting into your routine
Calorie
restricted diets that decrease the calorie intake of animal test
subjects to 25-50 percent below the recommended daily intake
increased the years of every animal it was tested on rats, mice fruit
flies etc. Humans are harder to test this on, because it would take a
100 year study, but the health benefits that appeared in the animals
tested who had an extended lifespan, also seem to work on humans.
Test subjects had
“decreased
body mass and better levels of glucose, triglycerides and
cholesterol, along with other factors”[11]A lot of
people on this extreme form of calorie restriction find it torturous.
A lot of people criticize it as giving you a longer lifespan while
simultaneously making you wish you could die sooner. The good news is
that the same benefits from calorie restriction also seem to happen
to people who adopt a fasting or fasting mimicking diet. Dr. Longo
recommends eating a 500 calorie a day diet, 5 days a month, but
honestly fasting just seems much easier for me.
I suggest
you experiment with a few things to see how you can incorporate
fasting into your life. Here are a few suggestions you can use.
1. Warrior
Diet
With this
fasting protocol, you pick a 4 hour window of every day and just eat
with-in that window.
2. OMAD
diet
You eat
one meal every single day and stop.
3. Every
Other day diet
You only
eat every other day
4.
intermittent fasting
All of the
above, qualify for this title, but I like to reserve it just for
taking a few days off a week from eating. Maybe Tuesday and Thursday.
Whatever
you do, just do something, with one small caveat. If you are prone to
eating disorders, I would advise not doing any sort of fasting
protocol, but other than that any healthy adult should be fine with
some occasional and routine fasting. Personally, I do the warrior
diet, because I have a pretty intense workout regimen, but to each
his own.
Cage
your inner Fat PersonI must
warn anyone with an eating disorder not to take the following advice.
I think people who have or who have had or who are susceptible to
developing an eating disorder should probably avoid these
suggestions. The reason I say this, is because they often use these
very same techniques but for unhealthy ends.
Psychological
splitting is a technique that can be and often is used to break bad
habits and start new ones. I read a book titled “Never Binge Again”
by Glenn Livingston and it has truly helped me get my eating on
track. Below is an Amazon review that sums up the book nicely. Take
the advice in the review and immediately apply it.
“Never
Binge Again," by Glenn Livingston, is a unique conceptualization
of the inner struggle between eating the way one impulsively wants to
eat in the moment vs eating the way you know you want to (for good
health, weight management, etc.). Three of the main ideas he presents
have a basis in science/current thinking. Firstly, there is a more
primitive part of your brain craves more and more starches or sugar,
for example, when you know that you are no longer hungry. Secondly,
people are not their thoughts. This is a tenet of
mindfulness/meditation. To illustrate this, if you sit and examine
how your mind wanders and what it "says," how can these
thoughts be "you," since you are outside of them enough to
examine and observe them? It this sense, it's not truly "us"
with the out-of-control desires and disordered thoughts. Lastly, it
is scientifically true that if you totally reject cravings, they
eventually go away. Giving into cravings only makes them stronger,
which is why it’s so important to NEVER do so.
What
Glenn asks is that you label all "mid-brain" thoughts (the
ones demanding excess food) as "the pig" (or whatever
deprecating term you prefer). You disparage any thoughts coming from
"the pig," and only listen to your "higher brain."
It may seem like the author is telling people to be down on
themselves, but this is not the case: he teaches that the part of you
that wants to do all the disordered eating isn't really you at all.
There is no self-hatred in this book. Glenn points out, and quite
correctly, that we cannot “love” this part of our brain into
thinness. The fact is, the desire to overeat or binge, when it comes
on, is powerful, and saying yes to it can feel like we are showing
ourselves love. But truly loving ourselves means making good choices
for our future and saying “no” to disordered eating, even though
it feels emotionally (and sometimes even physically)
painful.”[12]
That
was “Amazon Addict’s” Review which starts us on the right path
by telling us to label our inner fat guy. Give the demon a name, so
we can tame him. After this you create a food plan, which I have
given you the beginning stage of below. These rules give you a good
line in the sand, because your inner pig will try to trick you by
asking you to make on the spot choices and justifying it by
implanting thoughts in your head like “Well just one bite won’t
hurt”, or “Can’t you make an exception for birthday parties”.
Get this psychological trick down, like me and implementing this plan
will be no problem.
Rules1. No
sugar
2. No
flour
3. No
fruit Juices
4. Take
Metformin daily
5. Pulse
dose Rapamycin
6. Take a
daily omega 3 fatty acid supplement
7.
Incorporate regular fasting into your routine
sources
1.
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/diet2.
https://www.aish.com/atr/120-Year-Lifespan.html3.
https://www.debateart.com/debates/1719/radical-life-extension-is-more-likely-than-not-in-our-lifetime4.
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/weight-management/health-risks-overweight5.
https://www.medicinenet.com/obesity_weight_loss/article.htm6.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318615.php#simple-carbs-can-be-detrimental-to-your-health-7.
https://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2017/4/metformin-slashes-cancer-risks8.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/05/peter-attia-has-a-clinician-approach-to-longevity-and-discusses-rapamycin-dosage.html9.
https://rapamycintherapy.com10.
https://drwilliamli.com/fish-key-to-longevity/11.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-hunger-gains-extreme-calorie-restriction-diet-shows-anti-aging-results/12.
https://www.amazon.com/Never-Binge-Again-Permanently-Overeating/product-reviews/151516294X/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_paging_btm_next_2?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews&pageNumber=2
https://info.debateart.com/statements/code-of-conduct#special-circumstances
At my discretion in light of the concession I chose to forgive the earlier conduct breach. So long as the majority of points weight in favor of the person to which the concession was issued, the vote is not moderated. It's of course not wrong to call conduct tied, merely different interpretations of the same data.
Thanks for the honorable concession
I'm confused why you and Trent0405 gave Con the points on Better Conduct? Didn't he forfeit Round 1? It seems to me that the best vote he could be awarded is a tie on Conduct. Am I missing something?
I would definitely do your own independent research on it, and make sure that if you decide to do it, to stay on top of all the latest research as well as you can.
I've actually been doing your diet approach since the second week of November. I've lost 14 pounds so far. Although I haven't added the Rapamycin dose. Maybe I should try adding the Rapamycin dose and see if helps.
Doesn't seem like a popular topic. It will probably be available when your break is done
I might have taken this if i was not on a break.
Just updated so people know the type of diet I am advocating for
Lol
Nice tightening of the belt as the debate progresses!