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BoneCruncher
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If the following is correct and calorie restriction does have a significant effect on longevity and free radical damage is it safe to assume that a bulking diet such as the one I have used in excess of 4000 calories would have the opposite life shortening higher free radical damage effect?
"New research is pointing to a remarkable benefit of a low-calorie diet - it may actually help us to live longer.
Dr. Roy Walford has long been a pioneer in uncovering the connection between eating and longevity. In the early nineties, he was one of the Biosphere II scientists challenged to live in a greenhouse environment for two years, subsisting off of their own crops. Food was about 40% short. But Walford noted through testing that his fellow scientists had never been healthier.
Mice on high-calorie diets age more quickly than their diet-restricted counterparts. In the lab, Walford's former student Rick Weindruch is reaching similar results with mice and monkeys. It's immediately evident to Alan that the mice being fed a low-calorie diet are full of youthful energy, even though they are the mouse equivalent of senior citizens. Across the way, their same-aged companions, eating much more, spend their day napping.
In his well-fed monkeys, Weindruch is finding evidence of free-radical damage, a condition that's been linked to many illnesses in humans including cancer. But monkeys on a restricted diet have minimal damage, meaning they could be heading to a longer life. Walford for one is convinced this will work for humans too."
"New research is pointing to a remarkable benefit of a low-calorie diet - it may actually help us to live longer.
Dr. Roy Walford has long been a pioneer in uncovering the connection between eating and longevity. In the early nineties, he was one of the Biosphere II scientists challenged to live in a greenhouse environment for two years, subsisting off of their own crops. Food was about 40% short. But Walford noted through testing that his fellow scientists had never been healthier.
Mice on high-calorie diets age more quickly than their diet-restricted counterparts. In the lab, Walford's former student Rick Weindruch is reaching similar results with mice and monkeys. It's immediately evident to Alan that the mice being fed a low-calorie diet are full of youthful energy, even though they are the mouse equivalent of senior citizens. Across the way, their same-aged companions, eating much more, spend their day napping.
In his well-fed monkeys, Weindruch is finding evidence of free-radical damage, a condition that's been linked to many illnesses in humans including cancer. But monkeys on a restricted diet have minimal damage, meaning they could be heading to a longer life. Walford for one is convinced this will work for humans too."
