HOW TO STAY YOUNG:

Starve-destroy-recycle-eat-build-eat-build-starve...

The human ecosystem (our internal environment) has the same processes as the environmental ecosystem. Destruction & Reconstruction is a universal process. This is how we stay young.

We should take our cue from the senolytic processes of nature. A coppiced Hazel tree is near immortal.
Too much destruction (chronic calorie restriction) and too much growth (hyperfunction/ constant eating) are both bad and lead to derangement.
'A single bout of resistance training induced rapid clearance of senescent cells in muscle' h/t @Mangan150

https://t.co/MW7oFn6bgm
"Conc: Rapid senescent cell clearance of human skeletal muscle during resistance exercise seems to associate with enhanced in situ phagocytosis. High protein availability accelerates resolution of muscle inflammation and promotes muscle increment after training" h/t @SPKP1124
After Resistance or High-Intensity training I sometimes eat directly after (with sufficient protein) but very often don't eat for a couple hours as I want to continue the 'destruction' process.
Physical Standards. Note: These all involve intensity without killing yourself.
FASTING - Why it works.

1 The brain ‘improves’ in response to hunger;

2 The body preserves itself in response to deprivation.

Seen as an evolutionary survival mechanism the fasting rationale becomes clear.

https://t.co/DTKkLkLGMc
Summary:

You have to recycle your body. Just like the environment recycles itself.

Hard exercise (on top of a good aerobic base/gen activity) but no need to overtrain. Work-out fasted (50% of time), eat 18/6, 2 meals a day, default is slight CR, + overfeeding once/twice a week

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1/ Automobiles and Intake Fraction. Since cars are back in the news I thought I would retweet this model result I offered in early April 2020. I focused only on 1 micron particles & accounted for windows completely closed & cracked slightly open.


2/ Related air exchange rates were based on experimental results in literature for mid-sized sedans. Particle deposition to indoor surfaces were accounted for, as the surface to volume ratio in a 3 m3 cab is large. An important outcome was the intake fraction (IF)

3/ Here, IF is the number of particles (or virions in collective particles) inhaled by a receptor DIVIDED BY the number or particles (or virions in collective particles) emitted by an infector.

4/ Integrated over the two hour drive (in this example) the IF for all windows closed & a receptor at rest is 0.08 (8% of what comes out of the infectors respiratory system ends up in the respiratory system of the receptor). 8%! That is a very high intake factor.

5/ With additional ventilation from cracking a window open drops the IF to 0.012 (1.2%) still relatively high. Can get lower by opening more windows.

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Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

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