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You're mixing two things, though my original question wasn't clear. You're talking about calorie restriction with respect to metabolic disease. This study seem
by latch 9y ago
You're mixing two things, though my original question wasn't clear.
You're talking about calorie restriction with respect to metabolic disease. This study seems to further support your view and, I don't disagree with you.
I was asking about calorie restriction in terms of longevity. There's a growing body of science (and also wiki pages) that link reduced calories to an increase in media and maximum life span (via a reduction of various age-related diseases). Although the mechanism isn't known, this appears to go beyond weight.
- JamesBarney 9y agoI thought the mechanism was suspected to be mTor. And that eating a leucine deficient diet had similar effects as calorie restriction and fasting.
- latch 9y agoThanks! That helps (seems like methionine-restriction is related to all this too, after all). Maybe really stupid, but is it bio-chemically possible to create a amino acid analog that fulfills the good duties without the bad? What xylitol is for sugar, say.