#275 Do You Need Calorie Restriction to Live Longer - Siim Land and Vanessa Ascencao

Siim Land (0:00)

Welcome to the Siim Land Podcast. I'm your host Siim Land, and today I'm playing you a replay of me being on an Instagram live with Vanessa Ascencao. Vanessa is a nutritional consultant from South Africa. I talked about the benefits of calorie restriction and fasting for longevity on her Instagram, vda.nutrition. This episode is brought to you by Self Decode. Self Decode is a genetics decoding company. You can get personalized health recommendations based on your DNA and the latest scientific research. They have numerous different DNA reports for different areas of focus, like weight loss, longevity, gastrointestinal health, cognition and even mood.

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Vanessa Ascencao (0:52)

Hi everybody, I hope everyone is well. So just before we introduce and bring on Siim while we wait for him, we're going to be discussing how to eat less for longevity. Now we know that the big topic these days is how to increase lifespan and to increase the years, the quality of the years that we live. So to really optimize our health in a way that gives us longevity so that we've not kept alive through, you know, chronic medications and pharmaceuticals and, you know, just having really poor quality of life. So Siim is someone that I have worked with personally. He has coached me. He's an incredible human being, just so practical. He's from Estonia and he's an international coach. So if anybody does want to work with him, he's really, really phenomenal. Just super practical and just a wealth of knowledge. And he's also written many books that you can purchase. One of them that I highly recommend is Metabolic Autophagy, which is all about the things that we're going to be discussing today.

And if anybody does have any questions, you're welcome to post them while we're discussing it. I do read everything and it's obviously a very topical subject. We've always looked at longevity in a different way. So we've looked at it more in terms of how we look, not our internal aging. And just recently there was an incredible, I believe incredible, and I'll discuss it with Siim as well, paper released by Cara Fitzgerald where they released a whole lot of research that showed that people are able to reverse their biological age in within eight weeks just purely by diet, lifestyle, supplementation. So we're going to be discussing that as well. And just in the beginning, when I first released, that I'm going to be discussing longevity and how to eat less and why eating less for longevity is so important. We had a lot of things and queries around Siim.

Can you hear me?

How are you doing?

Good. We good. Good. Thank you. So nice to have you back on.

So much has happened since we last spoke, even just in terms of research and, you know, things around health and the whole COVID thing and all of that. So it's been interesting times.

Siim Land (3:50)

Yeah, that's for sure.

Vanessa Ascencao (3:53)

Yeah, I just I was introducing you and I was just discussing that you have to be the most practical person when it comes to portraying information and just giving it straight up.

I love the way you do that and how it's just so easy to just implement in a very practical way. There's always you always seem to demystify the magical aspects that people often talk about, right?

Siim Land (4:24)

Well, yeah, that's the thing. You have to make it very easy to adjust and the average person doesn't have the attention span to understand those things or to pay attention.

So you have to make sure, at least if you want to spread the information, you have to make sure there's something easy to understand and something easy to grasp fast.

Vanessa Ascencao (4:46)

Yes, 100%. And you do that so well, I must say. I was just saying, I've personally worked with you as well. And it's really awesome to be able to trust someone enough, you know, with your health and their knowledge base is credible. And I think you're very authentic and ethical in your approach, which is very important. It's not like you're trying to sell a million things, you know, which we always have to be careful of these days.

And also, you know, I was just talking about our topic, eating less for longevity. We know that what's been proven to really increase lifespan is caloric restriction, right? It's one of the things that has really been proven. And when I first promoted the live, I got a bit of backlash saying, you know, we have to be careful not to promote eating disorders. And I think fasting has also got a lot of that, where you almost, for the people that are more vulnerable to compulsive behaviors, tend to feel that we're promoting behaviors that are irresponsible in a way. And, you know, I always say, when we say eat less, it doesn't mean starvation.