In Episode #59, I sat down with Dr Renae Thomas, MD, a physician working in Loma Linda, California, one of the ‘Blue Zone’ areas that display incredible longevity and high quality of life. This is a really important podcast: sometimes in nutritional science, we can become too reductionist and zoom in on potential mechanisms without appreciating the complexities of human beings. Observational data from people displaying longevity, happiness, and a high quality of life serve as a reminder that sometimes we need to zoom out and look to those who are living proof of what it means to be healthy.
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Enjoy, friends.
Simon
Additional resources:
- Blue Zones website and books
- Renae’s website
- AHS population studies:
- Vegetarian diets in the Adventist Health Study 2: a review of initial published findings
- Vegetarian Dietary Patterns and Mortality in Adventist Health Study 2
- Beyond meatless, the health effects of vegan diets: findings from the Adventist cohorts.
- Vegetarian diets and incidence of diabetes in the Adventist Health Study-2
- From the Intro:
- Importance of microbiome diversity
