How nutrition affects healthy aging

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Thu, 12/03/2009 - 23:00

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) A new study of the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging could help to understand the positive effect of dietary restriction on healthy aging.

Previous evidence from different organisms (fruit flies and mice) have shown that dietary restriction increases longevity, but with a potential negative side effect of diminished fertility.


 

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