Re: Low Carb Diet and Alzheimers

Chris Malcolm wrote:
:: Roger Zoul <rogerzoul2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
::: Nicky wrote:
::::: "Roger Zoul" <rogerzoul2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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:::::: Using a low carb diet to help Alzheimers sounds reasonable, but I
:::::: don't see how it can be considered low calorie indefinitely....
:::::
::::: Yeah, there's the rub - they're talking about the kind of
::::: calorific restriction that extends life in mammalian models. It's
::::: way below the kind of level I'm prepared to go, if you extend it
::::: to humans.
::
::: ah....CR! I never have quite understood CR for life extention. If
::: one is always in a state of restricted calories, then it seems to
::: me that one is always losing weight. if one is not, then one is
::: not restricting calories, for one is eating at maintenance.
::: Unless, of course, one is constantly thriving to lower maintenance
::: calories toward zero. Some life.
::
:: You assume a constant metabolic rate.

Did you read the last two sentences. If you lower maintenance calories,
then indeed you are lowering metabolic rate. My point then is: some life!

Many animals adapt to more food
:: by becoming more active, less food by becoming less active. In my
:: youth that's how I was, the more I ate the more fidgety and bouncy I
:: became. I couldn't put on a single pound of weight no matter whow
:: much I ate. And I did try! In those days I took it extremely
:: seriously that women told me I was too skinny, and sometimes really
:: stuffed myself for weeks trying to become more attractive.
::
:: It doesn't seem unreasonable to me that slowing down metabolic rate
:: would result in living longer.

It seems unnatural to me to want to induce coma to live longer! IMO, the
goal should be to live a robust, active life, more than to live long but
don't do much. To each his/her own, though.

:: Even works for cars: tread lightly on
:: the gas pedal and the gas comsumption goes down and the engine lasts
:: longer.

Yes, well, gas consumption goes down. But IME, cars have a bad habit of
working better if you use them, than if left sitting.


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