RE: AGING: Short-term CR mimics long term CR

From: Reason (reason@exratio.com)
Date: Wed Sep 05 2001 - 12:18:12 MDT


--> Robert J. Bradbury

> The Longevity Meme news carried a pointer to a BBC article
> that I followed back to the PNAS article (here):
>
> http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/191313598v1

[snip]
>
> This is the 2nd significant publication fullfilling my prediction from
> 1997 that gene chips would have a huge impact on understanding what
> aging really is.
>
> This is the first good evidence I'm aware of that short term CR has
> positive effects by mimicing the changes caused by long term CR.

Which is a really good thing from the point of view of popularizing CR -- if
it can be shown that a "treatment-like" CR regimen has beneficial effects
for seniors, then CR is really off for a running leap to the mainstream, and
life extension memes can go with it.

Reason
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