{"id":1042359,"date":"2010-06-01T08:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T08:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/a-pop-sci-article-on-calorie-restriction-mimetics\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T16:56:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T20:56:53","slug":"a-pop-sci-article-on-calorie-restriction-mimetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/a-pop-sci-article-on-calorie-restriction-mimetics.php","title":{"rendered":"A Pop-Sci Article on Calorie Restriction Mimetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/05\/24\/retirement\/retire_rich_anti_aging.fortune\" \/>CNN Money<\/a> is running a longer piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caloric_restriction_mimetic\">calorie restriction mimetic<\/a> research and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2008\/09\/the-scientific-debate-that-will-determine-how-long-we-all-live.php\">goal of slowing down aging<\/a> to extend healthy life: \"In early 1934, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Depression\">Depression<\/a>-weary Americans were beginning to see tendrils of hope poking out of the bleak landscape. ... But one of the new year's most promising developments passed almost unnoticed. ... researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clive_McCay\">Clive McCay<\/a> was nearing the end of a four-year study that showed that rats' life spans were greatly extended when they were put on near-starvation diets. To many of his scientific peers, McCay's data made no sense at all. A glorious new chapter in nutrition science had been opened not long before by the discovery of dietary deficiencies behind scourges such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rickets\">rickets<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pellagra\">pellagra<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beriberi\">beriberi<\/a>. In the wake of such progress, it seemed almost subversive to suggest that a bunch of rodent Oliver Twists, raised on such short rations that their growth was stunted, could live radically longer than well-fed ones. ... Over the next several decades, his discovery was all but forgotten outside of the back halls of science - a laboratory curiosity that didn't actually spark much curiosity. Most scientists were reluctant to risk wasting time probing an anomaly that seemed as baffling as aging itself. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/topics\/calorie_restriction.cfm\">Calorie restriction (CR)<\/a>, as it's now called, eventually was shown to extend many species' life spans by a third or more. Now that anti-aging research is hot, it seems bizarre that CR spent decades on science's back shelf.\"<\/p>\n<p>View the Article Under Discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/05\/24\/retirement\/retire_rich_anti_aging.fortune\" \/>http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/05\/24\/retirement\/retire_rich_anti_aging.fortune\/<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Read More Longevity Meme Commentary: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/news\" \/>http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/news\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Money is running a longer piece on calorie restriction mimetic research and the goal of slowing down aging to extend healthy life: \"In early 1934, Depression-weary Americans were beginning to see tendrils of hope poking out of the bleak &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/a-pop-sci-article-on-calorie-restriction-mimetics.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}