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Viva Longevity!
@vivalongevity.bsky.social
YouTuber with fabulously informative and entertaining episodes about living younger longer.
This chart from 2016 has held up well despite the seed oil conspiracies, no?
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Isn’t it time we called out red meat for what the data actually shows? 🫣 That it’s more pro-aging than any ultra processed food? 😥 youtu.be/LPXWCIFDkgM
Harvard says Red Meat is WORSE than Junk Food
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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August 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Confession: I underestimated @prof-valterlongo.bsky.social for years, but his recent papers rang my bell. Stanford Professor @tamikokatsumoto.bsky.social was gracious enough to go with me to USC to help interview him, and I thought their conversation was utterly fascinating.
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Why High Protein Diets Could Be Dangerous | Dr. Valter Longo
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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June 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It seems crazy that meat could be more unhealthy for longevity than soda, deserts and liquor, but that's the data. I did not see that coming.
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More Meat, Shorter Life?
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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June 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
It's incredible that one component of food can have such a profound impact on human health.
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Stanford Rheumatologist Reveals Surprising Causes of Joint Pain
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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June 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My son Mark (in jeans) donated a kidney at Stanford to an unknown recipient. The recipient (center), who thought he was near his end after 4 years of waiting, reached out to him & now they're besties. Stanford has them speak to med students every 6 months.
May 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Jonathan Foley's Stanford speech: "🥩 is the most polluting substance you and I will ever touch with our bare hands, pretty much."
May 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's shocking to see how popular probiotic pills are and yet how harmful they can be. 😔 Dr. Sean Spencer from the Stanford Microbiome Lab is one of the most fascinating scientists I have ever interviewed.
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Scientist: The Dark Side of Probiotic Pills (Cancer & Gut Health)
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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May 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Every disaster movie 🦖 begins with someone ignoring a scientist...
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We Analyzed 114 Country Food Guides. 1 Diet Ruled Them All.
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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April 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The most fought-over topic in the American diet is 🥩. The new administration vows to re-make the dietary guidelines and they have a very convincing data point: Hong Kong eats the most and lives the longest, no? Checkmate guidelines:
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Have we been LIED to about meat?
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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March 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Fascinating story in @nymag.com about how America's obsession with protein is taking us down the path of more processed food. 🤨 Since protein isolates don't taste good, we add sugar and flavoring to compensate. And protein isolates aren't exactly nutrient dense...
March 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Thank God there are their are scientists like Brenda Eskenazi who devote their lives to studies like these:
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The Hidden DANGER of Pesticides in Your Diet
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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March 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I gave a talk at a low-carb conference (gulp) and this is what happened:
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How Big Data Revealed the Best Diets
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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February 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is masterful. 👏 He could have done the viral social media thing of strutting his stuff with no shirt because he has serious 💪, but instead he used air-tight, clear, easy-to-verify facts that everyone can understand.
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Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Is WRONG About Protein! | Plant Protein vs. Animal Protein | The Proof EP #351
YouTube video by The Proof with Simon Hill
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February 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The great thing about doing this as your expensive 🤑 retirement hobby, is you don't have to worry about what your institution or company thinks, or what it means for your popularity, or whatever. If you believe it's true, you can just say it. 😎 youtu.be/bqQnhq2nEN8?...
From Steve Jobs Arguments to Nutrition MYTHS: Interview w/ Viva Longevity!
YouTube video by PLANT BASED NEWS
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February 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I thought this was a fascinating interview:
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Lifelong No Meat, Vegan Bodybuilder Forest Nash
YouTube video by VeganLinked
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February 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
My new favorite dietary guidelines: Spain. 🇪🇸 They took into account the environment, so 🥩 went off the plate.
February 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Heh. We've been interviewing actual epidemiologists 🤓 (who does that?) and they're turning out to be very popular. Surprises me, since the Internet disses them. 🙃
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Exercise Myths Debunked | Harvard Epidemiologist Dr. I-Min Lee
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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February 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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the influencer-to-epidemiologist ratio is stressful
January 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
It seems to me ~10 influencers create ~80% of YouTube views about nutrition, and they're influenced by money & fame. Am I wrong?
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Influencers vs Epidemiologists: Money & Fame vs Science
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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January 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Ha! Every time I hear Paul Simon's famous lyrics, "Lasers in the jungle somewhere", I think of modern skincare. Lasers on your face somewhere. Just me?
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Skincare Breakthroughs with Harvard Professor Anna Mandinova
YouTube video by Viva Longevity!
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December 30, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Yet another popular podcaster pivoting to sensational misinformation to take views to the next level. 😔
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Steven Bartlett: The truth behind the Diary of a CEO podcast - BBC World Service
YouTube video by BBC World Service
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December 22, 2024 at 4:13 AM
We asked scientists from Japan, Norway, Canada and the U.S. about their food guides. 🥙 Canada submitted their answers in writing, so we needed an authentic Canadian to represent them on Camera. Found one.
December 20, 2024 at 5:50 PM
I asked the awesome @cgardnerphd.bsky.social to give this talk at TEDx Boston, and he nailed it.
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Why you can stop stressing about protein | Dr. Christopher Gardner | TEDxBoston
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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December 17, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Austria's new dietary guidelines. Pretty. 💐
December 12, 2024 at 8:51 PM