LONGECITY

Seth died on Saturday, April 26, 2014. He collapsed while hiking near his home in Berkeley, CA.

http://betabeat.com/...ts-passes-away/

:(

Edited by Master, 28 April 2014 - 04:16 PM.

It was nice to know all that but I did wonder: Was I killing myself? Fortunately I could find out. A few months before my butter discovery, I had gotten a “heart scan” – a tomographic x-ray of my circulatory system. These scans are summarized by an Agatston score, a measure of calcification. Your Agatston score is the best predictor of whether you will have a heart attack in the next few years. After a year of eating a half stick of butter every day, I got a second heart scan. Remarkably, my Agatston score had improved (= less calcification), which is rare. Apparently my risk of a heart attack had gone down.

 

http://betabeat.com/...kes-me-smarter/

 

Wonder what the cause of death was.  I find this to be rather odd -- eating half a stick of butter every day?

 

Wish his family the best.

Edited by prophets, 28 April 2014 - 04:49 PM.

If you cook with butter, half a stick a day isn't really all that much. I use about a fourth of a stick a day just from cooking eggs and bulletproof-style coffee.

I didn't know this about butter. It's been one of my dirty secrets for decades and it's almost a ritual by now; grab about two tablespoon fulls of butter, put it in a small bowl, get crackers or bread or anything to put butter on and go to town with it. Not daily but frequently enough that my husband notices. It's better than coffee and better than several of the noots I've tried. I'll choose butter over coffee any day. I used to think it was a carb craving because of the bread and crackers but later I realized it was the butter. I thought it was really bad and started alternating the butter with solid coconut oil. The coconut oil is very good but just not the same.

The cravings are strongest when I'm doing something intellectually energy-intensive like philosophy debates, or simply reading and writing.

I don't really know the effect on my cardiovascular system. My resting heartrate has always been on the faster side, since childhood, but my blood pressure always low, hovering around 100-90/50.

I was thinking about ditching the butter altogether for coconut oil, but it seems I can keep it after all?

 

It was nice to know all that but I did wonder: Was I killing myself? Fortunately I could find out. A few months before my butter discovery, I had gotten a “heart scan” – a tomographic x-ray of my circulatory system. These scans are summarized by an Agatston score, a measure of calcification. Your Agatston score is the best predictor of whether you will have a heart attack in the next few years. After a year of eating a half stick of butter every day, I got a second heart scan. Remarkably, my Agatston score had improved (= less calcification), which is rare. Apparently my risk of a heart attack had gone down.

 

http://betabeat.com/...kes-me-smarter/

 

Wonder what the cause of death was.  I find this to be rather odd -- eating half a stick of butter every day?

 

Wish his family the best.

 

 

 

Cause A: Occlusive coronary artery disease and “Other significant conditions: cardiomegaly.”

Edited by Master, 12 May 2014 - 08:09 PM.

I never read Seth Roberts, but I'm sorry to hear about his untimely demise.  There's something I've been wondering about the Agatston score- Is it possible to have a lot of possibly unstable non-calcified plaque that doesn't show up on a heart scan?  There are a lot of other variables here, like his ApoE genotype, but on the face of it, dying from occlusive CAD isn't a great advertisement for the butter diet.

My big question is, did the guy have en enlarged heart before or after he went on this diet? And then how much did the special butter diet contribute? 

 

The man was also 60. So that might also have played a role depending on when he began his diet. 

In this video he does have a little bit of a gut, so I am guessing his diet did not make him that well.