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The Healthiest Old Person on the Planet Explains How to Stay in Shape

35 points by evo_9 11y ago

kleer001 11y ago
I normally dismiss advice from outliers like this, but the message of "Get out and exercize. Eat real food. Never retire." I think cannot be repeated enough. Though I do suspect he's juicing with something, probably testosterone and or HGH.
- kasey_junk 11y ago
  Good for him. With HGH and modern steroids our biggest worries seem to be long term risks. Doesn't seem an issue for him.
- themartorana 11y ago
  "Never retire." My in-laws are in their mid-70s, but don't act like it at all. They both work numerous "jobs" (they own a farm and do other volunteer and outreach work, and my father-in-law builds ponds and bridges and whatnot for other local farmers). My father-in-law did have cancer, but is in remission now, and sped right back up to normal pace. It's obvious to my wife and me, though, that if he ever "retires" he'll likely go down-hill pretty rapidly. The women in my wife's family all live well into their 90s (her grandmother is currently 101) and there's no doubt part of it is their stubborn inability to slow down. Never retire. Maybe you can afford at 65 to remove the golden handcuffs and take up a different vocation, but don't ever stop working and learning.
gumby 11y ago
Interesting he started at 87 and it's more accessible than pharma therapy (which doesn't even exist yet)
personomas 11y ago
"I avoid sugar and eat lots of meat, especially fat. I've been on a fat trip lately. Fat! Piles of fat. Yet, I was in a supermarket the other day and was perplexed to find yogurt with zero fat. What on earth is that? The idea of the nutrition pyramid where, at the top, is a little fat and meat, and at the bottom a lot of carbohydrates, is, excuse me, bullshit. Humans are so unbelievably stupid that we have begun to tinker with food. Our theories of nutrition have resulted in a pandemic of obesity. Can you imagine a hunter-gatherer enjoying a low-fat yogurt? Let me tell you this, too: I read a report recently which said that a fatty diet also increases your libido."
- secstate 11y ago
  The idea that fat makes one "fatter" is one of the more embarrassing aspects of modern nutritional science. I'm actually not even sure nutrition science resembles real science, given the 5 year cycle of sodium be bad or good for you.
  - contingencies 11y ago
    given the 5 year cycle of sodium be bad or good for you Japanese food can be quite salty, and they top world life expectancy at 84. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
- Johnny_Brahms 11y ago
  Well, we do have an environmental aspect of meat. Good that it works for him, but meat is _not_ sustainable, and the little meat that can be said to be sustainable is not scalable.

35 points by evo_9 11y ago

I normally dismiss advice from outliers like this, but the message of "Get out and exercize. Eat real food. Never retire." I think cannot be repeated enough. Though I do suspect he's juicing with something, probably testosterone and or HGH.

kasey_junk 11y ago
Good for him. With HGH and modern steroids our biggest worries seem to be long term risks. Doesn't seem an issue for him.
themartorana 11y ago
"Never retire." My in-laws are in their mid-70s, but don't act like it at all. They both work numerous "jobs" (they own a farm and do other volunteer and outreach work, and my father-in-law builds ponds and bridges and whatnot for other local farmers). My father-in-law did have cancer, but is in remission now, and sped right back up to normal pace. It's obvious to my wife and me, though, that if he ever "retires" he'll likely go down-hill pretty rapidly. The women in my wife's family all live well into their 90s (her grandmother is currently 101) and there's no doubt part of it is their stubborn inability to slow down. Never retire. Maybe you can afford at 65 to remove the golden handcuffs and take up a different vocation, but don't ever stop working and learning.

gumby 11y ago

Interesting he started at 87 and it's more accessible than pharma therapy (which doesn't even exist yet)

personomas 11y ago

"I avoid sugar and eat lots of meat, especially fat. I've been on a fat trip lately. Fat! Piles of fat. Yet, I was in a supermarket the other day and was perplexed to find yogurt with zero fat. What on earth is that? The idea of the nutrition pyramid where, at the top, is a little fat and meat, and at the bottom a lot of carbohydrates, is, excuse me, bullshit. Humans are so unbelievably stupid that we have begun to tinker with food. Our theories of nutrition have resulted in a pandemic of obesity. Can you imagine a hunter-gatherer enjoying a low-fat yogurt? Let me tell you this, too: I read a report recently which said that a fatty diet also increases your libido."

secstate 11y ago
The idea that fat makes one "fatter" is one of the more embarrassing aspects of modern nutritional science. I'm actually not even sure nutrition science resembles real science, given the 5 year cycle of sodium be bad or good for you.
- contingencies 11y ago
  given the 5 year cycle of sodium be bad or good for you Japanese food can be quite salty, and they top world life expectancy at 84. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
Johnny_Brahms 11y ago
Well, we do have an environmental aspect of meat. Good that it works for him, but meat is _not_ sustainable, and the little meat that can be said to be sustainable is not scalable.