Hungering for Immortality

Overview

Journal Mo Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2018 Sep 20

PMID 30228670

Citations 5

Authors

Joel C Eissenberg

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Abstract

Beyond avoiding risky behavior-smoking, substance abuse, obesity-and embracing healthy habits like exercise, a balanced diet, and non-obese body weight, are there things we each do today to significantly extend our lifespan? Caloric restriction is the only behavioral intervention consistently shown to extend both mean and maximal lifespan across a wide range of species. In most cases, the lifespan extension is accompanied by a marked delay in the onset of age-associated disease and infirmity.

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