What we eat probably impacts our health more than any other single factor, according to a medical doctor and CEO of a longevity company who shared his diet with Business Insider.
Alongside exercise, food is a pillar of longevity because we consume it multiple times a day and it impacts everything from the gut microbiome to cholesterol and the constitution of cells, said Dr. Joseph Antoun, the CEO of L-Nutra, a longevity-focused nutrition company.
Antoun said diet can play a large role in reducing the risk of developing diseases that are among the leading causes of death in the US. These include: heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s, according to CDC data.
He follows the Longevity Diet, created by his colleague and L-Nutra cofounder Valter Longo, a professor of gerontology and director of the USC Longevity Institute. It’s mainly a plant-based diet but includes fish a few times a week, plus …