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What if there was a drug that was guaranteed to reverse aging,
would you take it? And what if that drug had no side effects. Of
course you would take it. But does such a drug really exist? The
answer is yes and the drug is called food.
You see aging is all about hormones and the food you eat will have
a dramatic effect on your body's hormones for next four to six hours.
But the door can swing both ways. Food can either be your greatest
ally to reverse aging, or it can dramatically accelerate the aging
process. In essence you have to begin treating food as if it were
a drug taken at the right dosage and at the right time.
For the past 20 years, I have devoted my research to understanding
the precise interplay of hormones generated by the foods we eat.
My work lead to the creation of the Zone Diet. Briefly stated, the
Zone Diet is a lifelong program of changing the balance of protein
and carbohydrate in the meals you like to eat in order to keep certain
hormones, such as insulin, within a zone; not too high, and not
too low. If you can achieve that goal, you have the anti-aging drug
everyone is searching for.
Many people think of aging as a consequence of decreasing levels
of hormones, but in reality many hormones (and in particular insulin)
actually increase with age. The importance of this fact is that
many of the chronic diseases associated with aging such as heart
disease, cancer, diabetes, depression, and arthritis are directly
or indirectly related to increases in insulin production. The Zone
Diet is the only proven dietary program that can reduce excess insulin
and maintain this key hormone in an appropriate zone consistent
with a longer and healthier life.
Although I have written many books about Zone science, it can be
summed up in two words: balance and moderation. You are told that
eating lots of grains (i.e. bagels, pasta, and rice) are the keys
to a healthier life. Nothing could be further from the truth. You
are told that fat should be avoided at all costs. Again nothing
could be further from the truth.
Like most Americans you are probably totally confused as to what
to eat, and more importantly why. Unless you understand how to use
your diet as a powerful drug to control insulin (and thus reverse
aging), your quality of life will be much less than it possibly
could. And what is the benefit of living longer if you are not living
better?
In the months to come, I will be writing more detailed articles
about how you can use the Zone Diet to treat and prevent particular
conditions such as heart disease, cancer, and others. But how do
you enter the Zone? I suggest starting with my book, Zone Perfect
Meals in Minutes. This book was written for my diabetic patients
as a how-to manual for the Zone Diet. It contains a very concise
description of the Zone Diet, but more importantly a simple step-by-step
method of adjusting your diet to make it more hormonally correct.
In addition, there are 150 recipes for quick and easy Zone meals
that make it incredibly simple to begin mastering the Zone Diet
within a few days.
Does it work? Our clinical data presented at a recent American Diabetes
Association meeting demonstrated that within six weeks every clinical
parameter associated with adult-onset diabetes had reversed following
the Zone Diet. Why that is important is because those are the same
clinical parameters that must be reversed to increase longevity.
This is explained in much greater scientific detail in my book,
The Anti-Aging Zone.
Reversing the aging process is easy, but it requires a minimal lifestyle
change. You have to begin thinking of the food you eat with the
same respect that you treat any prescription drug. If you are willing
to make this change then age reversal is incredibly easy.
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