My Comment to Sebastian Rushworth on his article about Protein
Do high protein diets shorten lifespan?
Here’s the article: https://sebastianrushworth.com/2022/07/31/do-high-protein-diets-shorten-lifespan/
And my comment:
Thanks Sebastian. I love your work.
I take the liberty of adding/extending thus:
https://Nutrition-Network.org (esp Prof Tim Noakes' work/books/research/collaborations/etc) seems to offer the best/biggest teachings for diet, based on human results now and solid evolutionary data, rather than mice, theories and associations/correlations masquerading as facts/proof.
Steve Bennett's new vast https://HealthResults.com is/aims to be the world's biggest food/nutrition database, and this will grow, along with the data/real evidence. It looks like it'll help substantially to create a completely new global health economy :)
At the moment that's about as far as I can go without getting into quantum and ancient/Eastern/forgotten health and healing, which when we consider optimism, placebo/nocebo, dreams, zeitgeist, love, orgasms, nature, the questionable notions about physics and universe(s), reality, and other phenomena that cannot be measured by 'western' science and thinking, all suggests that we are using inadequate tools and methods for approaching the subject.
We cannot understand infinity using finite means.
I like the analogy of the Native North American plains Indians who apparently were the tallest civilisation on the planet until about 200 years ago, and basically all they ate was buffalo, and so now have obesity/diabetes rates worse than most or any other ethnicities. They had a completely different relationship with health/life/death/cosmos/etc than we do and can comprehend.
I also like the work of Kazimierz Dabrowski (theory of positivedisintegration.com - TPD - and https://www.businessballs.com/blog//blog/personality-development-through-positive-disintegration/), which aligns in different ways with Frankl, Albert Ellis, Maslow, Tyson Fury, etc., about emotional rebirth after disintegrations, which is significant in people's personalities and health/longevity, and quantum (immeasurable unknowns and energies).
Your pattern/correlations of 'age:diet' does IMHO 'map' with human evidence, although for reasons that are different to many assumptions/confusions. Insulin resistance takes a while to become chronic.
Some of us are genetically more prone to addiction than others, just as some of us are genetically more carb tolerant than others (although humans are not designed to eat a lot of carbs per se).
Emotional Intelligence and Multiple Intelligence are factors, rather than conventionally measured 'intelligence'. See Goleman, Gardner, etc., and Erik Erikson to understand more about maturity and growth.
Some of the least wise and most fearful people I know are academically hugely 'qualified', and quite/very wealthy. Some of the wisest most compassionate people I know have no academic qualifications at all.
See Nick Duffell's work on gender, boarding schools, 'Wounded Leaders', etc.
Also it's impossible to generalise beyond some very simple 'facts', because every person is so different, genetically and environmentally, and fluid, and 'balance is a process not a state'.
We are each part of a cosmological/quantum flow, beyond measurement.
Anyway thanks for your work as ever. IMHO you are among the great pioneering questioners of 'accepted science'.
Love and best wishes, Alan Chapman (LiveWildLiveFree.org, etc)
And some additional references that are not in my original comment above:
LowCarbFreshwell.co.uk (get and use the app - it’s powerful!)