Low carb, Moderate protein, high fat diet is the best?! Everyone I know does well on it (as said by another imm member)?! Sorry, I do horribly on those ratios.
I hope to do a post soon on Diet, Antioxidants, HGH, and Supplements. I feel a large portion of even our enlightened audience is duped into thinking the paleo diet maximizes longevity. The Paleo diet helps increase muscle mass and decrease weight which helps with your consitution for any general moment, but the hormonal environment will be a detriment to longevity vs a diet that helps lower internal growth hormones (like lowering IGF-1).
Of course you want to eat unprocessed foods, avoid processed fructose, lower polyunsaturate intake (with balance),and avoid gluten. But a high fat diet is not the only (or best) diet out there.
Problems of a Paleo diet:
1: too much protein; even a moderate paleo diet has protein approaching 100-150g of protein a day. Plus, you can start to alter the bacteria in your stomach towards putrafactive bacteria from fermentative.
2: too much fat; remember the figures of AGEs in foods, cooked animal foods or oils or even certain nuts have lots of these. Fat can also form dangerous compounds in your gut during digestion. I trust that fats I make in my body from carbohydrates won't have this problem.
People who are overweight seem to do extremely well on high protein, low carb diets. This is precisely because they are overweight. Thin people can process carbs well (being insulin sensitive, remember the Kitava?), being thin is the natural state of man. Just as consuming antioxidants are beneficial in diseased type states, but when you are healthy, they might hurt energy production and longevity.
When you eat a Paleo diet, you are really bumping up your hormones. There seems to me to be overwelming evidence that eating a growth producing diet (while it can make you big and strong), hampers maximum longevity. More to come!
Well, you pointed out a LOT of pluses of the paleo diet!
Remember, the paleo diet doesn't rule out tuber vegetables like potatoes, which is in part what the Kitava ate (yam, sweet potato, taro and cassava). I personally rule out potatoes because they are a stunningly poor nutritional bang for the caloric buck.
I think you over-estimate the protein eaten by most people on a paleo diet. I rarely get more than 125g a day, which puts my protein intake at less than 25% of total cals for me. And the fats I consume are in large part unheated, unprocessed, like olive oil, tea seed oil, palm oil and coconut oil. Also, raw goat cheese, and raw, sprouted mixed nuts. If I cook with fat or oil, I'll make sure to use one that will not change its molecular structure due to over-heating. I do get a little cooked fat in meats, but it's super stable saturated fat, so it's much safer than a food cooked with a vegetable oil.
Cooked meat is a real concern for AGEs, I'll grant you that. To help combat that I take several AGE-blockers. I also always take a 6mg resveratrol pill (basically equal to a glass of RSV-rich red wine) before eating any red meat,
for this reason: