Nutrition and lifestyle are the keys to longevity
A blog by Michael Butler
Articles and opinions for my family & friends about how I am living a healthier life informed by scientific research undertaken since being diagnosed with heart disease. Starting with the principle that each of us is biologically unique, everyone can use nutrition and lifestyle to achieve their greatest potential.
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Bread is Sugar
Starches in bread, rice, pasta, and potatoes are rapidly converted by your body into sugar. Very quickly that sugar exceeds our metabolic need, is converted and stored as fat, and contributes to what we call chronic disease.
The good news is that this can be reversed. Cutting down on starchy foods is a way forward. This has been shown to result in drug-free T2D remission.
Plant- and animal-based proteins are not the same
I’m in the second half of a century well lived and suffer from age-related muscle loss. This is natural and easily managed by eating enough bioavailable protein and exercising properly. I recently read a great paper about how to get enough bioavailable protein to retain and build back muscles and strength. I describe it here.