The Benefits of Calorie Restriction for Longevity

Though a bane for dieters, a slower metabolism may actually be a good thing. New subscribers to our e-newsletter always receive a free gift. Get yours here: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/ This is part of my video series on calorie restriction, intermittent fasting, and time-restricted eating. Next up is Potential Pitfalls of Calorie Restriction (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/potential-pitfalls-of-calorie-restriction). The rest coming out over the next few months are: • Benefits of Fasting for Weight Loss Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/benefits-of-fasting-for-weight-loss-put-to-the-test) • Is Fasting Beneficial for Weight Loss? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-fasting-beneficial-for-weight-loss) • Is Fasting for Weight Loss Safe? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-fasting-for-weight-loss-safe) • Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/Alternate-Day-Intermittent-Fasting-Put-to-the-Test) • Is Alternate-Day Intermittent Fasting Safe? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-alternate-day-intermittent-fasting-safe) • Does Intermittent Fasting Increase Human Life Expectancy? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-intermittent-fasting-increase-human-life-expectancy) • The 5:2 Diet and the Fasting-Mimicking Diet Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-5-2-diet-and-the-fasting-mimicking-diet-put-to-the-test) • Time-Restricted Eating Put to the Test (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/time-restricted-eating-put-to-the-test) • The Benefits of Early Time-Restricted Eating (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-benefits-of-early-time-restricted-eating) If you don’t want to wait you can watch them all now on a digital download (https://drgreger.org/collections/downloads/products/fasting-weight-loss-digital). If you’re watching this the day it comes out, there are two days left to register for my 3rd and final fasting webinar, Fasting and Cancer, here (https://nutritionfacts.org/webinar/fasting-cancer/). Have a question about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-benefits-of-calorie-restriction-for-longevity and someone on the NutritionFacts.org team will try to answer it. Want to get a list of links to all the scientific sources used in this video? Click on Sources Cited at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-benefits-of-calorie-restriction-for-longevity. You’ll also find a transcript and acknowledgments for the video, my blog and speaking tour schedule, and an easy way to search (by translated language even) through our videos spanning more than 2,000 health topics. If you’d rather watch these videos on YouTube, subscribe to my YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=nutritionfactsorg Thanks for watching. I hope you’ll join in the evidence-based nutrition revolution! -Michael Greger, MD FACLM Captions for this video are available in several languages. To find yours, click on the settings wheel on the lower-right of the video and then "Subtitles/CC." Do you have feedback about the translations in this video? Please share it here along with the title of the video and language: https://nutritionfacts.zendesk.com/hc/requests/new Image credit: Matthew Bennett / unsplash https://NutritionFacts.org • Subscribe: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe • Donate: https://nutritionfacts.org/donate • Podcast : https://nutritionfacts.org/audio • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Instagram: www.instagram.com/nutrition_facts_org • Books: https://nutritionfacts.org/books • Shop: https://drgreger.org