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Madonna’s Secret for Longevity Seen Aiding Bacteria Boom
By Kanoko Matsuyama and Jason Gale - May 8, 2012 5:34 PM ET
The secret to Madonna’s staying power may be surprisingly simple: gardening.
What the pop star does involves no trowel or soil. Thanks to dishes of fermented soy beans, millet and brown rice prepared by her personal chef, Mayumi Nishimura, Madonna practices a form of inner horticulture -- cultivating her intestinal flora in a burgeoning alternative approach to health.
Madonna performs during the Bridgestone Super Bowl XLVI Halftime Show at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Photographer: Jamie Squire/Getty Images
Chef Mayumi Nishimura poses for a photograph at Integral Yoga Natural Foods store in New York. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg
Chef Mayumi Nishimura shops for groceries at Integral Yoga Natural Foods store in New York. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg
Chef Mayumi Nishimura holds a bunch of radishes for a photograph at Integral Yoga Natural Foods store in New York. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg
Chef Mayumi Nishimura poses for a photograph in front of Integral Yoga Natural Foods store in New York. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg
Studies of the trillions of bacteria living on and in the body suggest the Material Girl, 53, may be onto something. By eating foods rich in fiber and laced with so-called good bacteria, she may be encouraging helpful microbes to flourish in her bowel, aiding in food digestion and vitamin extraction and possibly staving off diseases from asthma to colon cancer.
“This diet that Madonna is following is very sensible,” saysDavid Topping, chief food-nutrition researcher at Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Adelaide, who studied gut biology for 25 years. “The bacteria that live inside you are fulfilling very important functions.”
(read more on Bloomberg)
I garden, and live long time. You can too! Woo! Garden it up buttercup. And live forever. Like Madonna and me.
PS. Express yourself too while you're at, would ya? We do. (Probably too much, but that's A-OK)
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