Even though there has been research on CR for over 70 years, the mechanism by which CR works is still not well understood. Some explanations include reduced cellular divisions, lower metabolic rates, ...
Activity levelLaboratory rodents placed on a CR diet tend to exhibit increased activity levels (particularly when provided with exercise equipment) at feeding time. Monkeys undergoing CR also appear m ...
Recent work on Caenorhabditis elegans, a free-living, transparent nematode (roundworm), has shown that restriction of glucose metabolism extends life span by primarily increasing oxidative stress to e ...
Research in 2003 by Mair et al. showed that dietary restriction extends the life of fruit flies of any age, with instantaneous effects on death rates. Two years later, the same group showed that calor ...
Fungi models are very easy to manipulate, and many crucial steps toward the understanding of aging have been made with them. Many studies were undertaken on budding yeast and fission yeast to analyze ...
Seventy years ago, C. M. McCay et al. discovered that reducing the amount of calories fed to rodents nearly doubled their life spans. The life extension varied for each species, but on average there w ...
A study on rhesus macaques funded by the National Institute on Aging was started in 1989 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is still ongoing. Monkeys were enrolled in the study at ages of bet ...
It has also been noted that people losing weight on such diets risk developing cold sensitivity, menstrual irregularities, and even infertility and hormonal changes.Moreover, calorie restriction has b ...
Long-term calorie restriction at a level sufficient for slowing the aging process is generally not recommended in children, adolescents, and young adults (under the age of approximately 21), because t ...
Concerns are sometimes raised that CR can make people feel hungry all the time and may lead to obsessing about food, causing eating disorders. However, a controlled study of human CR found no increase ...
Concerns are sometimes raised that CR can make people feel hungry all the time and may lead to obsessing about food, causing eating disorders. However, a controlled study of human CR found no increase ...
CR diets typically lead to reduced body weight, and in some studies, low body weight has been associated with increased mortality, particularly in late middle-aged or elderly subjects. One of the more ...
Short-term studies in humans report loss of muscle mass and strength and reduced bone mineral density. This is to be expected as part of the weight loss that accompanies CR. Beyond using lean tissue a ...
The long-term effects of moderate CR with adequate intake of nutrients on humans are still unknown. However, severe or extreme CR may result in serious deleterious effects, as it has been shown in the ...
Long-term CR in humans results in a reduction of several metabolic and hormonal factors that have been associated with increased risk of some of the most common type of cancer in developed countries. ...
