How does a limited diet change your body age?
Dr. Oz says when you restrict your calories, the
body understands that it doesn’t have any resources
to waste.”The body gets really efficient,” he says.
“You turn on this new chemical pathway we
never knew existed called the sirtuin pathway.
What it tells you is don’t make more babies because
you don’t have the excess abundant energy to do that
—just live longer.” The body’s cells also benefit
when calories are limited. “We don’t have toxic waste
products coming out of our energy cells,” Dr. Oz says.
“So we are actually able to get the individual
cell lines to live longer.” To read the rest, click here.
