Can a Plant-Based Diet Reverse Aging?

According to Dean Ornish, it most definitely can. But when he tested it, he had the benefit of partnering with Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, an expert on telomeres — those caps on the end of our DNA that are a marker of longevity. They discovered from blood tests that a whole-foods, plant-based (WFPB) diet could, in the short term, increase telomerase, the enzyme that repairs telomeres.

In this article, I divulge a much simpler and cheaper method to answer this question. It is a method that anyone can use, both in the short and long term, with hardly any cost. I post my experience here in the hope that it might be of use to people considering positive lifestyle changes.

Note: I am not a medical professional, nor is this article a scientific study. As such, this information cannot be used as a medical recommendation. The article is based on my personal study and experience on the subject matter, and I hope that it can provide insights to those who read it.

Going Plant-Based:

In early 2017, I adopted a plant-based diet. A good friend of mine; a keen, fitter, and younger cyclist, had a full cardiac arrest while training at the local velodrome. Because of some very lucky circumstances (namely, some people very proficient in CPR, a defibrillator in the building, and a nearby public hospital with a cardiac ward), he survived and lived to tell the tale of an amazing out-of-body experience.