Permanent diet extends primates' lives by years

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3109, 2017, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Put down the cake. Going on a permanent diet could make you live longer, if findings from monkeys hold true for people. A long-running trial in macaques has found that calorie restriction makes them live about three years longer than normal, which would translate to about nine years in people. Such a strict diet might not be for everyone, but understanding the mechanisms behind any benefits of calorie restriction may one day lead to anti-ageing medicines, says Julie Mattison at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore MD. Many studies have shown that calorie restriction extends lifespan for lab organisms, from yeast through to worms, flies and mice.