From an HN audience perspective, perhaps the most interesting thing going on here in recent years is the way in which Longo's group managed to break out of the

From an HN audience perspective, perhaps the most interesting thing going on here in recent years is the way in which Longo's group managed to break out of the funding ghetto of aging research for this one part of the field by figuring out the plan and establishing the relationships to productize the research. This pulled in new money and support that allowed them to make good, new steps in quantifying the effects of reduced calorie intake. The cost is that we now have another set of marketing drones extracting rent from the regulatory capture /intellectual property morass for telling people to eat less, but you can decide for yourself whether this is clever hacking of a hopelessly corrupt system or adding to the problem.