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"Rebuttal to Dr. David Sinclair Harvard-PHD, On-Ageing" by Michael Burge~

Challenging the Sirtuin Theory: How Diet, Not Cellular Malfunction, Is the True Root of Aging

October 12, 2026 2 min read

Michael Burge, Dietary-Transitions-Expert from Meat & Dairy to Vegan and Raw-Diets on Notable Men

Michael Burge

Dietary-Transitions-Expert from Meat & Dairy to Vegan and Raw-Diets, New-Frontier in Health, Healing, & Athletic-Achievement

"Rebuttal to Dr. David Sinclair Harvard-PHD, On-Ageing" by Michael Burge~

"Rebuttal to Dr David Sinclair, Harvard-PHD, On-Ageing"

*Chapter-10*

{Copyright May-4th, 2022}

Harvard Professor David Sinclair calls aging “a disease that needs a cure.”

In his book, Lifespan: Why We Age & Why We Don’t Have To, he details the cutting-edge science in the field of longevity.

In the 1990s, at an MIT lab, he discovered the mechanisms that led to aging in yeast [bread-survives], then began correlating them to humans~~~

In 2013, he asserted that the malfunction of sirtuins [the family of proteins responsible for repairing DNA damage and controlling cellular health by keeping cells on task...i.e., sirtuins tell kidney cells to act like kidney cells]...Sinclair postulates, “This is the single cause of aging!!”

I contend that his observations are the after-effects of an erroneous diet [meat and by-products] that causes the body to malfunction and leads to sickness or disease, of which aging is a side effect!!

The mainstream meat and by-product diet was never intended for human sustenance by the HOLY Creator...“Do Not Kill” is an immutable law of LIFE!! Therein lies a root cause of every sickness and disease...consuming food one’s body was not designed for!! The body adapts to a degree, but is plagued by childhood diseases from the get-go and is nourished haphazardly throughout life, with diminishing returns starting for most in their 20s~~~

A proper diet of vegan foods, with 50% raw food, in season as much as possible, is a much-superior diet and is trending in these days of environmental concerns...using 10 times fewer resources per pound of food than meat and by-products!!

Ah, but one’s diet is a most precious habit...along with the dubious protein misnomer.

A vegan diet with 50% or more raw food [live foods with live enzymes for a live body] can specifically nourish one’s body when implementing my discovery of the food/body-correlation aspect, circa 1980. In this view, almost every food in nature is designed to nourish a specific organ or body part based on a unique similarity in appearance—i.e., cauliflower is brain food/protein [observe the similarities between the picture of cauliflower and brain X-rays in three other articles with a cauliflower as the header picture]!! I’ve documented 23 food/body correlations!!

One day, a man’s food will be his medicine. —Hippocrates~~~

That day is today. Burge!!

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