190: Powerful Secrets to Living Longer, Plus How Fasting Can Improve Your Digestion | Mark Sisson

Nature has the best way to fix things ... Nature always has the best answer. It's not found in drugs, it's not found in some surgical intervention, it's not found in all of the magic potions and lotions and things that we figure we need. Literally, there's always a solution that will be found in nature that's probably the best solution.

As you develop metabolic flexibility over the years, your body doesn't want to be in ketosis. Ketosis is a term that describes an excess of ketones in the bloodstream. It's basically the 'osis' part of it that means it's not really desirable.

It's probably the single most overlooked aspect of good health across the board. No matter what field of expertise you're in, sleep is right up there with... If you don't have good sleep, you're not going to get the results you are seeking.

I think ketosis is more of a three-week program to embark on as a strategy to help develop metabolic flexibility. But once you develop the metabolic flexibility, then the benefits of being in ketosis all the time start to diminish.

To live a genius life means feeling that I have made a contribution to other people, whether it was specific to one person or generic to a bunch of people. Just the sense of having been a positive impact on someone's life versus just going through life hedonistically.

The average person in this country is not well, unfortunately. 12% of people have good metabolic health.

The longer you go without eating, the better it is for your body—the more good stuff happens in your body.

Walking is still the greatest thing humans ever learned to do.

Literally, vitamin D might be the single most important factor in being able to handle a bout of COVID-19...

In the last 5 or 10 years, I've really gotten down on seed oils. There's a lot of information about how devastating seed oils are.