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Supercharging your cells can defend against Alzheimer’s, aging and diabetes
You are what you eat… or, to be more precise, your cells are what you eat.
Research shows that diet directly affects cell function. And cell function directly affects aging and disease.
So, if feeling healthy and young is important to you, eat in a way that supercharges your cells so they can protect you from premature aging and disease.
But what diet fuels healthy cell function?
Well, the latest research shows that cell health is less about what you eat and more about how much you eat.
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How eating less protects you from disease and aging
Research shows that how many calories you eat affects how smoothly your cells function. And in this case, less is more…
Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) spent a lot of time studying how low-calorie eating affects cell function, aging and disease. And here’s what they’ve found so far…
Low-calorie diets seem to have a beneficial effect in at least three areas — brain health, diabetes, and aging.
In one of their studies, mice were fed either a normal diet or a low-calorie diet. Then they were injected with a substance that causes seizures, kills brain cells and causes brain damage. As ominous as this substance sounds, mice eating a low-calorie diet were protected against its effects…
Mice eating a normal diet had seizures but mice eating a low-calorie diet didn’t. This led researchers to believe that low-calorie diets may be helpful in protecting the brain from damaging disorders like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, epilepsy and cerebral vascular accident (CVA).
In another study, researchers found that low-calorie diets could be helpful in preventing diabetes too. They found that pancreatic beta cells (cells that produce insulin) infused with blood from mice who ate a low-calorie diet produced insulin in a healthy way. Pancreatic beta cells infused with blood from mice who ate more calories, however, did not.
There have been human studies that support the connection between low-calorie diets and diabetes too. One particularly exciting study found that people who followed a low-calorie diet for eight weeks reversed their type 2 diabetes.
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But low-cal eating has another benefit beyond brain health and diabetes prevention, according to the University of São Paulo researchers. They believe a low-calorie diet also prevents premature aging, a finding that’s supported by many recent studies.
One 2018 study from researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research in Baton Rouge, Louisiana found that cutting calories reduces oxidative damage, which is a well-known contributor to cellular aging. And a 2017 study from researchers from Duke University found that cutting calories by 15 percent slows biological aging.
Why is cutting calories so effective at preventing disease and slowing aging?
The University of São Paulo researchers believe it’s because cutting calories supercharges your cells, making the mitochondria (the energy center of your cells) operate more efficiently.
Cutting calories for healthy cells
Clearly, there are plenty of reasons to cut calories. And there are plenty of approaches to doing it…
You can keep things simple and cut your daily calorie intake. Studies show that cutting calories by 25 percent (roughly 500-625 calories per day) could make a big difference in disease risk and biological aging. But even cutting them by 10 to 15 percent (roughly 200 to 375 calories per day) helps your cells.
If cutting calories daily isn’t your cup of tea, you could also try intermittent fasting. You could do that one of two ways….
You could limit your eating to an eight-hour window every day and fast for the other 16 hours of the day. Or you could eat normally five days per week and fast two days per week. Whatever sounds the most doable to you. Here are some helpful intermittent fasting tips from Easy Health Options contributor Craig Cooper to get you started.
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Source:
- Diets consisting of fewer calories improve cell performance — MedicalXpress
By Jenny Smiechowski
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