> What I've Learned. Longevity & Why I Now Eat One Meal a Day. YouTube, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfR6bAXr-c>. Accessed 16 Aug. 2021.
# Longevity & Why I now eat One Meal a Day
> Why has Nutrition been so complicated? This video tells the story about why 3 meals a day is unnecessary and how eating ONE meal a day can make being healthy much simpler.
- Caloric intake reduction increases longevity
- The 3-meal idea was invented by recent culture
- 70 grams of glucose can be stocked in the liver, 200g in the muscles, and the rest is stored as fat
- Too much insulin prevents your body from using lipids
- If you stop eating glucose for 10/12 hours, your body produces ketone bodies and burns fat
- Humans do not need carbs: the liver can produce all the glucose you need
- Fasting stimulates Sirtuin proteins which are responsible for DNA repair, and promotes the growth of new neurons in the brain
- Upton Sinclair, *The Fasting Cure*
- Try eating once a day