7 Foods You Should Be Eating After You Reach the Age of 50

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today, I’m going to tell you about some important foods and nutrients that should be part of a healthy diet for people over 50.

Dr. David Sinclair, an expert on longevity, has researched longevity genes called sirtuins. NAD can increase sirtuins!

NAD is derived from niacin. It works inside your mitochondria, converting food to energy. As we age, our NAD decreases. Many people take supplements and get injections to boost NAD.

Dr. Abram Hoffer wrote a book about the diseases caused by too little niacin and how many diseases can be cured with mega doses. He’s one of the doctors who started the Orthomolecular Medicine Group, which used high doses of nutrients to create therapeutic dosages.

The following foods can increase NAD and should be part of a healthy diet for people over 50:

1. Beef liver

2. Grass-fed red meat

3. Probiotic-rich foods—raw sauerkraut, yogurt

4. Parsley (celery or chamomile tea can also work)

5. Curcumin—turmeric

6. Quercetin—onions

7. Omega-3 fatty acids—wild-caught fatty fish, cod liver

Sulforaphane, found in cruciferous vegetables, is also beneficial for healthy aging. Broccoli sprouts and radish sprouts are great to add to salads! Anthocyanins, found in blue and purple foods like blueberries, blackberries, and purple cabbage, are also good for anti-aging.

Niacin: The Real Story BOOK LINK:

https://www.amazon.com/Niacin-Story-W...

A Plague of Corn BOOK LINK:

https://www.amazon.com/Plague-Corn-So...

Transcript

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0:00.0	Today we're going to discuss the seven foods you should be eating after you reach the age of 50.
0:06.2	And of course, I'm almost there. I'm 49. I'm being very sarcastic. I'm 59. And I eat a lot of these
0:11.9	foods I'm going to share with you. But I really want to talk about why you should be eating these
0:16.3	foods first. Obviously, you want to eat foods that will help to extend longevity, right? So we should
0:21.9	probably use a longevity expert. We're going to talk about Dr. David Sinclair. He's one of the
0:26.6	leading experts on longevity. He actually studies these genes called Sertuans. Sertuans basically are
0:32.6	longevity genes. One of the things that will increase Sertuans is called NAD. NAD is inside your
0:42.1	mitochondria converting food to energy and then pushing it down the assembly line until eventually
0:47.3	it helps recharge a certain battery. As we age, our NAD goes down. At midlife, they're down like 50%. A lot of the anti-aging experts out there
0:57.6	are educating people about boosting this NAD. There's a lot of supplements out there that help
1:02.7	boost the NAD. People are getting injections. I think even David Sinclair came up with his own
1:07.8	supplement. There's a whole bunch of drama on that, which I'm not going to get
1:10.9	into. But all of those compounds have this basic derivative of where they come from. And that is
1:18.1	plain old simple niacin, which is B3. Then the question is, why not just take more niacin?
1:23.7	Nyacin is so inexpensive. That's not the whole picture, but it's one piece of the puzzle.
1:29.2	There are other reasons. And I'm going to get to those. But I first want to show you a very
1:33.8	interesting book. Now, what does this book have to do with Nyesin? Well, let me explain. In the late
1:40.2	1800s and early 1900s, there is a disease that was rampant called Pallegra. For many years,
1:47.9	they thought it was an infection. But to make a long story short, it wasn't an infection. It was a
1:51.7	man-made thing. They isolated, it comes from consuming a diet of just corn. So apparently in corn,
2:00.7	niacin, B3, is locked up. And so when you just smash this corn up
2:05.5	and live on a diet of corn, which a lot of people did, you end up with Pellegra. But wait a
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