Peter Heitman

“In animal studies, the shortest lifespans were among those fed high-protein diets.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

“At doses over 300 mg a day, anthocyanins can also lower LDL cholesterol.6950 That translates into as little as a single daily serving, like a half cup of high-anthocyanin berries such as blueberries.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

“Presumably, if the conditions within your gut were amenable to the growth of good bugs, they would be there already. Without a change in diet to change the gut ecosystem, probiotics don’t take root, so you’d have to keep taking them forever.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

“Nitrate supplementation can significantly increase exercise tolerance6831 and performance,6832 not only because it enables our body to extract more energy from oxygen6833 but because it helps to dilate our arteries so they can deliver more oxygenated blood to our muscles6834 and even directly improves muscle function (contractility) through an unknown mechanism.”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older