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Savory ground pork sautéed with kimchi and spices, served over garlic butter cauliflower rice and topped with a crispy fried egg and fresh scallions.
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Ingredients
6 oz ground pork (80/20 or fattier preferred)
½ cup sugar-free kimchi, chopped
2 eggs
1 ½ cups cauliflower rice (fresh or frozen)
1 garlic clove, minced
2 Tbsp butter or tallow (divided)
1 tsp sesame oil (optional, off heat only)
1 scallion, thinly sliced
½ tsp ginger, minced
½ tsp red pepper flakes (optional)
Salt & pepper to taste
1 tsp olive oil (for finishing drizzle – optional)
Macronutrients
(per serving, makes 2)
Protein: 30g
Fat: 40g
Carbs: 6g
Preparation
In a skillet over medium heat, melt 1 Tbsp butter. Add ground pork, breaking it up with a spatula. Cook until mostly browned, then add chopped kimchi, ginger, and red pepper flakes. Sauté 4–5 minutes until pork is fully cooked and kimchi is slightly caramelized.
In another pan, melt 1 Tbsp butter over medium heat. Add minced garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Add cauliflower rice, season with salt and pepper, and sauté 5–7 minutes until soft and lightly golden.
In a clean non-stick or cast iron pan, melt a little butter or ghee. Crack in eggs and fry until edges are crispy and yolks are still runny (or to desired doneness). Season with salt and pepper.
Layer cauliflower rice into a bowl, spoon over the kimchi pork mixture, and top with a fried egg.
Add sliced scallions and a drizzle of olive oil and/or sesame oil (off heat). Serve hot.
In this essay, Gary Taubes uses a new longevity drug for dogs to explore how mainstream aging research is increasingly converging on ideas long associated with the carbohydrate-insulin model of metabolic disease. The drug targets insulin and IGF-1 signaling pathways tied to aging and lifespan regulation. So if suppressing these pathways extends life, what role does diet play in driving these regulators in the first place?
Taubes revisits research from molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon, whose experiments extended worm lifespan by altering insulin-related genes. Feeding the worms glucose later shortened lifespan significantly, supporting the theory that chronically elevated insulin signaling from high-carbohydrate diets may accelerate aging and disease.
The article argues that ideas once dismissed as fringe—particularly the role of carbohydrates and insulin in obesity, diabetes, and aging—are increasingly reappearing in mainstream science under the banner of longevity medicine and metabolic health, often without acknowledgment of the decades-long controversies surrounding those ideas.
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