Rice paddies have water now, and people will plant rice next week or so. The end of April to the beginning of May is the rice planting season in Japan. It is a beautiful time to go walking or cycling and my regular morning Nordic walking gives me further pleasure.
Thanks to me, our library is acquiring a great selection of cutting-edge science on health and longevity. This is the third book they purchased for me, and they are all current bestsellers. I don’t think many other libraries have this selection and the residence of our town can access it.
Recently, I have been making natto with steamed vegetables. This is pretty much the same with stir-fried minced veg natto.
Natto is another food supposed to be good for autophagy, according to Dr. Tamotsu Yoshimori, the author of Life Science Nagaikisezaruwoenaijidai no Seimeikagakukogi. He was a co-researcher of Dr. Yoshinori Ohsumi, the 2016 Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine.
Maybe I should go to a hot spring every weekend so that I can create a good balance sequence of stress and break. Alternating stress and break is a method recommended by Yu Suzuki, the author of Furo Choju Method, A Method of Immortality and Longevity, another best-selling book on the topic of longevity.
Autophagy is now considered to be the key to our health and longevity.
So, how do we activate autophagy?
There are several ways but today I will share with you the three most common ways.
I have just finished reading The Switch: Ignite Your Metabolism with Intermittent Fasting, Protein Cycling, and Keto by James W. Clement. One thing The Switch made clear to me was how much protein we should absorb each day.
I once said that the custom of drinking green tea was better for your health than that of coffee drinking, what about it during your intermittent fasting?
It is a bamboo shoot eating season now, and we get a lot of bamboo shoots in Satoyama.
I tried making fermented brown rice with long-grain rice but it didn’t work.
