Back when I first joined this website I was at a point where I thought that I Need to start weight lifting to become bigger, because I have always sorta skinny... After doing a lot of research on aging I found that becoming huge by lifting weights and whatever may not be the best idea for my goals...
First of all I will clarify that I am Male and those numbers are correct, BP is consistant with doctors readings when I go there. My weight now Is actually around 116.0 + I've had to increase my calorie intake slightly since I made a screenshot of that graph.
Rather than me explaining the whole thing here I'll provide you with just a few links that you might want to go through sometime... but I'll briefly explain what CR is about.
Calorie Restriction on animals was first done around 70 Years ago and it showed that if you were to restrict the calories that the mice consumed, they would live longer, upto 40% longer than control mice that ate what they wanted.
There are many theories on how CR actually works but one of them is the 'free radical theory'. We age because of metablism really, by restricting ones calories but getting optimal nutrition you are slowing down metabolism and therefor there is a reduction in ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species) from the Mitochondria and the result is less mutations to mtDNA and damage to cells in general. CR increases the bodies natural defense systems against ROS. The other theory is that it puts your body in survival mode and there are a few others that you can read about. Calorie restriction enables maximum Metabolic effeciency. Less energy is wasted as heat and fat, more ATP is produced by respitory metabolism. I think CR diet can reach about 50% metablolic effeciency, meaning 50% of potential energy converted into ATP. (ATP is an energy molecule that drives cell functions). Normal people are around 37% and on a 3000+ calorie diet its about 30%.
My temperature is also nearly 1-2 degrees below average which again is consistant with CR monkeys and humans.
There are a few things that happen when one goes onto a CR diet, these include:
Improved Insulin sensitivity
Lower average circulating levels of glucose
Increased Maintenance of DNA
Reducation in expression of oncogenes
Reduced Decline in sexual activity with age
Lowered Blood pressure
Reduced risk of arthritis
Improved mental functioning / reduced risk of AD and PD
and there are many other benifits too!
My results so far are consistant with what previous CR studies have shown.
Calorie Restriction Drastically Reduces Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke and Diabetes
http://mednewsarchive.wustl.edu/medadmin/PAnews.nsf/0/F76B2638BDB6CAE786256E76005D51F6
People who severely restrict their caloric intake drastically reduce their risk of developing diabetes or clogged arteries, the precursor to a heart attack or stroke. In fact, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis,
some risk factors were so low they were comparable to those of people decades younger.
People in the calorie restriction group had total and low-density lipoprotein — known as LDL or “bad” cholesterol — levels comparable to the lowest 10 percent of the population in their respective age groups. Their high-density lipoprotein — known as HDL or “good” cholesterol — levels were in the 85 to 90 percentile for middle-aged men. That finding was a surprise because HDL levels typically decrease when individuals follow low-fat diets to lose weight.
Triglyceride levels — which, when elevated, can lead to atherosclerosis —
were even more impressive in the calorie restriction group: They were lower than more than 95 percent of Americans in their twenties, despite the fact that the study participants’ ages ranged from 35 to 82
Blood pressure scores in the restricted group also were equivalent to those of much younger individuals. The average blood pressure in the normal diet group was about 130/80, which is standard for the typical American. In comparison,
the calorie restriction group’s average was about 100/60, akin to the blood pressure of an average 10-year-old.
Fasting glucose and insulin — both markers of the risk of developing diabetes — also were significantly lower in the calorie restriction group, with insulin concentrations as much as 65 percent lower.
heres more info from
BUPA http://www.bupa.co.uk/health_information/html/health_news/210404heart.html
I will have Blood Results soon and can show you all what I got. As I've only been doing CR for around 6 months they wont be as good as long-term CR'd people but should be pretty good.
My Choleseterol score: 3.3
Heres a little table and 3.3 puts me at VERY LOW risk
http://www.exrx.net/Testing/LDL&HDL.html
Hopefuly I can improve on this next year.
I hate being skinny tbh, but if it increases my chances of reaching radical life extension then I can live with it I suppose. I have to be very careful that I maintain adequet nutrition and not be deficient in any nutrients. My calorie level is quite low and therefor my diet consists of nutrient dense foods only.
I'll have all Tier 2 tests done by january
http://calorierestriction.org/tests
Heres some links if you are interested in learning about this:
http://www.karlloren.com/diet/p108.htm
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag98/feb98_research.html
http://www.infoaging.org/b-cal-home.html
http://www.calorierestriction.org/
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