Weight Control over Diet Composition
- Prioritize weight control over specific diet choices like vegan vs. carnivore.
- Focus on eating mostly healthy, unprocessed foods.
- This allows for easier weight management, which is more impactful than diet composition.
- If grotesquely overweight, diet type matters less than weight itself.
- Occasional unhealthy foods don't significantly affect mortality compared to a completely healthy diet.
Healthy Body Weight and Muscle Mass for Longevity
- Maintain a body weight around the average recommended by medical guidelines, or slightly less.
- Avoid significantly lower weights, as they can be detrimental to health.
- A slightly higher weight due to muscle mass is generally acceptable.
- Maintaining decent muscle mass has positive systemic effects, such as regulating blood glucose, which contributes to longevity.
Ideal Weight and Muscle Mass for Longevity
- Aim for a weight between 135 and 150 pounds for optimal longevity.
- Higher weight is acceptable with more muscle mass.
- Muscle mass has positive systemic effects, such as regulating blood glucose, which contributes to longevity.
- Correlation between muscle mass and mortality is strong, but it's largely because muscle mass indicates overall health, not necessarily the direct cause of it.