Dr. Valter Longo, also a gerontology professor and head of the U.S.C. Longevity Institute, believes the key to living past 100 is to start eating much less food.
The band's majority adhered to the live-fast-die-young philosophy. But following gigs at the Whiskey a Go Go, Roxy, and other West Coast clubs, the band's guitarist, Valter Longo, an Italian Ph.D. student who was obsessed with longevity, struggled with a lifetime addiction to longevity drugs and alcohol.Currently, decades after Dr. Longo left his grunge-era band, DOT, to pursue a profession in biochemistry, the Italian professor stands at the center of Italy's preoccupation with food and aging, donning a lab coat and floppy rocker hair.
"Italy is just incredible for studying aging," the youthful 56-year-old Dr. Longo remarked at the lab he oversees at a cancer institute in Milan, where he is scheduled to present at an aging conference later this month. Italy boasts one of the oldest populations in the world, with se...
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