To proceed to the second dessert after a festive feast is an act that does not promote longevity and does not reduce the risk of cancer, say US researchers from the University of Alabama. The basis for such statements was a study on how exactly reducing the calorie diet, and especially reducing glucose consumption, prolongs the life of cells in the human body.

Scientists from the US came to the conclusion that moderation in nutrition, as well as reduced consumption of food rich in glucose, contribute to longevity. This discovery, published on the site of The FASEB Journal, can lead to the appearance of drugs and treatments that slow the aging of the person and prevent cancer.

Experts working at the Center for Aging and Comparative Cancer Research at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, conducting a new study, hope that the discovery will be followed by an explanation of the causes of these phenomena in different types of cells and the creation of new ways of prolonging people's lives, and that these Research will contribute to the fight against cancer and other age-related diseases by controlling the consumption of calories by different types of cells.

In the work, researchers used normal cells of the human lung and cells taken from the lung at the initial stage of development of a malignant tumor. Both sets of cells were grown under laboratory conditions and received normal or reduced doses of glucose. Within a few weeks, researchers tracked their ability to divide and survive. It was found that normal cells live longer, and many of the precancerous die if given less glucose.

Also, in this experiment, the gene activity of cells. A lowered dose of glucose increased the activity of the gene in normal cells that sets the level of telomerase, an enzyme that prolongs life, and reduces the activity of the p16 gene that slows down growth. The reason for this effect, as it was found out, is not related to gene mutations, but directly to cell nutrition, experts say.

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