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The Engineered Mediterranean Diet

How I move a real American diet toward a longevity diet without pretending I am going to become a different person.

By Chris Zant
15 min read · Jul 2026

I use the engineered Mediterranean diet as a T2 Meals move: not a new identity, not a perfect protocol, and not a list of lifespan claims, but a set of small food levers that move a real diet toward a Mediterranean, blue-zone-inspired pattern once the floor is already stable. Pick the tools that work, test them in your own life, and keep the ones that make the diet better enough to last.

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