Eat less, live longer

05 June 2022, 15:44 | Health
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If you want to live longer, eat less! Scientists have found that reducing our diet by 40% can extend average life expectancy by as much as 20 years.!

Researchers at the Institute for Healthy Aging at University College London are developing a new therapy that hopes to defeat the " The question of how genetics and lifestyle can be transformed in order to minimize the manifestations of age-related processes, pushing them back for decades, is being studied..

This will also delay the onset of age-related ailments such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and neurodegeneration.. In one of a series of experiments, scientists noticed that the lifespan of a rat can be significantly extended by simply reducing its diet by 30%..

" - In the human dimension, this is 20 years of life. The relationship between life expectancy and the amount of food eaten exists in all living organisms, even in Labradors"

Scientists are also observing fruit flies, which have 60% of the same genes as humans, as well as mice..

Researchers have been able to extend the life of both fruit flies and mice using special drugs and a modified diet.. Perhaps the same combination will be effective in relation to humans..

Piper and his colleagues have learned how to mutate single genes, as well as reduce the effect of mutations that cause Alzheimer's disease.. True, all studies on ways to increase life expectancy last only 10 years, so the findings can still be considered theoretical..

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