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Extending life with diet or insulin has trade-offs
Over the last decade or so, two of the most promising avenues of research in gerontology (the study of aging) and the search for means of extending human life have been on the effects of restricting diet and the activity of the hormone insulin. Numerous studies have shown that caloric restriction (not starvation, but a [...]
Posted in News: Extending Lifespan Also tagged aging, CREB, diet restriction, DNA, flatworm, insulin, lifespan, memory, memory loss, mRNA, protein, RNA, sRNA Leave a comment

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