Revolution in Understanding of the Ageing Process, page 1

Cynthia Kenyon, a researcher into aging at the University of California, claims that sugar is the new tobacco.

"We gave our worms a tiny bit of sugar and it shortened their lifespan by revving up the insulin pathway. I didn't go home," she laughs, "I went straight to the store and I bought a book on low-GI (low-glycemic - low sugar) diets and found a recipe and that was it, I changed immediately."

Kenyon now avoids all sugar, except dark chocolate, as well as bread, and sticks to low-GI foods.

The Guardian

Cynthia Kenyon, the lead researcher, now avoids all sugar.

Apparently the link between sugar, insulin and aging is the over-stimulation of receptors related to the aging process. Disabling the daf-2 gene resulted in worms living twice as long and appearing healthy up until their deaths.

The link between diet and aging makes sense when you consider that the gene daf-2, which was partially disabled in Kenyon's worms, activates receptors that are sensitive to two hormones – insulin and a growth hormone called IGF-1.

Later experiments shed more light on the effect of weakening daf-2 activity, which triggers a sequence of events within the cell, including the activation of a second gene, FOXO.

This receptor is normally activated by insulin, and too much sugar in the diet, which may have the opposite effect, overstimulating these receptors, says Kenyon, who warns that "sugar is the new tobacco".

The Guardian

Apparently, while the tests were carried out on worms, the link with humans is strong. People who live much longer are likely to have a mutated daf-2 gene.

For those who doubt the relevance to humans, Kenyon points to studies showing that people who live to be 100 are more likely to have mutations in the daf-2 gene. There are also variants in the FOXO gene that are more frequent among people who live to be 100.

The Guardian

So if I understand this correctly, eating sugar over stimulates receptors related to speeding up the aging process. In worms, disabling a gene involved in this process led to the worms living twice as long and remaining healthy. The link to humans is strong in that long lived people often have a mutation of that gene.

Cynthia Kenyon, the leading researcher responsible for this discovery, no longer eats sugar.

I'm not sure I'm going to look at sugar in quite the same way ever again. This is quite a discovery.

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Here is a link to low-GI (low-glycemic) foods that if eaten instead of high sugar foods apparently slow down aging.

Glycaemic Index Tables

Noodles, spaghetti, oranges, peaches and peas are considered more low GI while white bread, cornflakes and white rice are considered hi GI.

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Sugar is also the reason why people 'need' to eat low cholesterol foods. Sugar causes the arteries to inflame over and over until it eventually scars. Inflamed AND scarred arteries catch cholesterol and cause it to build up....which as we all know eventually ends in heart attack.

Now, cholesterol is an incredibly important building block of the body....so high cholesterol isn't necessarily a bad thing...unless you suffer inflamed arteries from sugar intake.

So what does the medical industry do about this? Promote low cholesterol, and cholesterol reducing medication....instead of addressing the ACTUAL problem.

We aren't meant to eat carbs. We aren't meant to eat sugars. We are meant to eat meat and non-inflammatory vegetables, we're meant to boil bones down to broth and consume marrow, and the calcium that comes with that. We're not meant to drink cows milk. We're not meant to farm grain or rice. These things were taught to us by 'The Gods'...and I make that assertion because of all the mythologies that have a God of Agriculture...or writings of how the Gods taught us agriculture. Why? Well it enables the support, although unhealthily, of a large population in a small location. If they were really teaching us to mine for them then this would be a perfect reason...because teaching us this, and enabling uncontrollable population growth on unhealthy eating habits is clearly against the natural progression that this planet enables. We were only ever meant to be hunter gatherers.

Now the problem is too far gone. Our bodies are meant to exist in a state of ketosis, not dependent on carbs for energy. Your OP just validates this theory even more. Thank you for posting it.

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