Biogerontologist
Valter Longo is an Italian American biogerontologist and professor at the USC Davis School of Gerontology, where he directs the Longevity Institute. He is best known for his research on fasting mimicking diets and ageing, which he distilled in his popular book The Longevity Diet.
by Valter Longo
Longo presents his fasting-mimicking diet as a way to trigger autophagy and stem-cell regeneration without full starvation, combining it with a low-protein Mediterranean-style 'longevity diet.' He argues that periodic fasting downregulates TOR, IGF-1, and PKA pathways to extend healthspan.
The books Valter Longo references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Randolph M. Nesse
Nesse applies Darwinian thinking to medicine, arguing symptoms like fever and anxiety are evolved defenses, not malfunctions. Evolution explains why we're vulnerable to disease.
by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Mukherjee traces the gene's history from Mendel's pea gardens to CRISPR, weaving science with personal family narrative. The gene is both the atom of heredity and a source of profound ethical dilemmas for our future.
by Robert Sapolsky
Sapolsky traces every human behaviour, from aggression to empathy, through biology, from the millisecond before an act back to evolutionary pressures millions of years ago.
Who Valter draws from, and who draws from Valter — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.