I'm reviewing Clement's anti-aging book now. Overall, after the first skim-through, he covers a lot of ground and delivers a lot of background. It's a "tome" IMO. It's not typeset the way I prefer to read being double spaced unneccessarily. I could have done with a paperback to fold it over while reading instead of awkward hardcover with jacket that slips off. As with all books, there are few illustrations and no room in the margin for notations.
Content wise, he includes rapamycin which is good for me to read about because I've seen Bill Faloon sell it at his Perp life meetings at the Perp Life Church on youtube. It sounded like a drug to me though it's derived from a moss on Easter Island which I learned from Clement.
Clement's bottom line advice on eating seems undoable for me. I'm not really trying overly much to lose weight though I could burn off belly fat. There are a few hints like trying to extend your overnight fast to 18 hours from 12. I tried that once but I don't believe it's a good idea at all. I've tried Keto but get super hungry leading me to eat more.
The book is hard to read, doesn't have a lot of practical advice that I personally see I can use. The Rapamycin seemed interesting until I leanred it's a drug and you need to be super careful when you use it according to some cycle that I don't know the details of yet because I've only skimmed the book.
For me, this book seems like another Nathaniel Pritikan Longevity Diet that is impractical, dangerous but possibly interesting.... to lab rats. I have four round steaks I'm going to cook up tonight and enjoy after my beer. Beer and steak make me feel good.
He covers insulin a lot but not insulin resistance, which I think is the key to the problems dealing with insulin.
Overall, the book rehashes a lot of material I've seen before and I can't seem to grasp his point of the first skim through but that's probably my fault.
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