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This is tough for me, because I’m a big do you believe what the studies say or your own lying eyes kinda guy. About a year and a half ago I tried going on a rather intense caloric reduction protocol. I was eating about 1,000-1,400 calories a day as a 6’2”, 170 lb male. Over the next 5 months I gradually fell to a low of 138 lbs, I had literally no energy, was waking up in panic attacks in the middle of the night at least twice a week, and was in a terrible mental state. I should mention, for about 2.5 months I completely cut out all dairy, meat, and eggs, maybe this is where I went wrong. Either way, like many have taught throughout history, I have learned that their are equilibriums you must find for yourself, you know when you are straying too far outside equilibrium because you feel it. Error on the side of eating less, for sure, but I have found a balanced day with lots of movement trumps everything else for me personally.
Eating less junk and more nutrient dense food! Also, according to human design there's other factors that are worth exploring that are highly individual based on a person's design. Here's three very different determinations to three different constitutions and food is not the only variable to properly absorbing the nutrients. image Or
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In this episode we discuss: -How the largest body of evidence cited in favor of hormesis actually doesn’t support it at all -Why caloric restriction is NOT responsible for slowing aging and extending lifespan (and what is actually responsible) -The many factors that confound the calorie restriction research (including differences between organisms, poor research design, amino acid restriction, PUFA, endotoxin, and more)
The sad thing is we have only data from mice. Mice die after not eating for 2-4 days. We humans are very special, as our brains need a lot of energy (20 percent of our energy needs go to our brain), so to survive we had to develop the ability to be more ketogenic than most animals and the ability to store fat and use autophagy (e.g., dogs die if they have more than 12 percent body fat, due to heart failure; humans can withstand much, much more fat). As a result, we can last without food for much longer than mice. So the findings there are often not directly translatable. We have a lot of data about lean body mass being correlated with health, but the longevity data is simply not there. I would be cautious with filling in the blanks prematurely here... at least the way we humans process protein and our needs are completely different from those of rodents. Check out Prof. Layman's research on this topic.
Dr. Casey Means, @caseymeans on X, is on a mission to help change our metabolic health crisis. We need her on NOSTR because the "control mongers" will be coming for her. I have tried sharing it with her on X but maybe an invite from you would get her attention :). Peace