There are many supposed anti aging secrets out there, but this one caught my eye because doctors claim this could be the fountain of youth or method to help people live essentially forever.
It is called calorie restriction and it is a few things; extreme, proven, and rising in popularity.
I don't know who would undertake this diet, and in a minute you'll understand why, but I do know the science behind its possibilities makes perfect sense and that is something we rarely encounter.
As far as anti aging secrets go, this should be the cream of the crop.
I'm not a scientist but I can explain, in a nut shell, how calorie restriction is the fountain of youth.
Our bodies are made of cells and these cells die.
That's not too complicated.
When you restrict how much food you eat, your cells start telling each other to not die - to hang in there and save what nutrients we have, because we don't know when more are coming.
When you bombard your cells with nutrients (including bad ones like fat and cholesterol) they quickly die off and have natural drive to stay alive longer.
It's a survival of the fittest on a cellular level.
Your body will conserve if it is near deprived.
I'm not kidding when I say near deprived either.
Anti aging secrets like this one certainly require a pretty serious commitment.
Some people who implement this approach live on one thousand calories a day.
They also have no health issues, no emotional or mental issues and outlive the rest of us folks by nearly a decade.
Whether or not this is for you only you can decide, but I wanted to toss the idea out there for those of you interested in learning scientific facts along with anti aging secrets.