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While we wait for modern pharmacology to produce safe drugs that stop aging, the best thing we can do is search the market to find foods that can safely achieve something similar.
There are many substances in our food that are considered to have anti-aging effects, and one of the strongest and most well-studied is spermidine. Spermidine offers anti-aging effects in many ways, but the most famous is through the activation of autophagy. Spermidine is the closest thing to the elixir of youth at the moment, and its safety is proven by the fact that our body produces it itself. In addition to endogenous production, we can obtain it from our diet, but also from the microbes that exist in our intestines. The bad thing is that as we age, spermidine decreases significantly in our body. Even at 50, spermidine levels in our body have dropped by half. Spermidine has been shown to increase lifespan in many animals and it is very likely that the same thing happens to us because people who are over 100 often have the ability to produce more spermidine than the rest. For all of us, however, we do not know if we produce enough spermidine, the solution is to make sure we get enough from our diet. Especially as we age, that is, after 30.
Many studies have been done that show the benefits of spermidine, as there is data that supports that it reduces the likelihood of dementia, protects the heart, reduces the likelihood of stroke, reduces the likelihood of diseases of the arteries and veins and in general where it has been examined it seems to significantly help health. This is the definition of an anti-aging substance anyway. It is not just a substance that helps the heart or a substance that reduces the likelihood of getting diabetes. It is a substance that helps our health at all levels. Imagine that there are studies that claim that spermidine even protects against hair loss!
If both of your parents died after the age of one hundred, then it is very likely that you produce a lot of spermidine. However, if this has not happened, it is a good idea to make sure to increase spermidine in your diet because studies show that people who consume more spermidine compared to those who consume less live almost 6 years longer!
In the table below we see a list of foods and their spermidine content. The order is from the foods that have the most to the least. Calculate that a man needs 30 mg of spermidine per day from his diet and a woman 25.
Above the list we see mushrooms that contain 9.2 mg of spermidine per 100 grams. And from there we see the usual suspects of a healthy diet. Legumes, such as lentils, soybeans and chickpeas, then vegetables and oilseeds, such as peas, lettuce, broccoli and cauliflower, below that peanuts, cucumber and potatoes and finally meat and cheese which contain minimal spermidine. Obviously the table does not contain all the foods, because otherwise it would contain almost only plant foods, but I wanted you to see the animal foods so you can compare.
The good thing is that spermidine is generally quite heat-resistant and is only destroyed when exposed to very high temperatures, such as frying. The only food that is very rich in spermidine that I did not include in this list is wheat germ because it is something that I want to spend a little more time on. Wheat germ, scientifically called endosperm, is very rich in spermidine and can also be used as a “dietary supplement”. That is, you can buy it from health food stores. Wheat germ is a waste product from the flour manufacturing industry. Flour mills that use wheat to produce mixes for baking throw away both the bran and the wheat filter. Fortunately, in health food stores you can find both. Both are very important and useful for our health, but wheat germ is the one that is richest in spermidine. One tablespoon has 2.5 mg of spermidine and you can add it to your salad, to your food and to your breakfast cereal.
If you are interested in the topic of aging, you should definitely watch the video that is currently displayed on my right about leucine, which is an amino acid that has the opposite effect of spermidine. I remind you that by pressing the like button and sharing the video, you help me a lot. Thank you.