Calorie drop gets you ready for hibernation

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3171, 2018, pág. 8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Cutting the calories being consumed may extend life. Leanne Redman of Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana and her colleagues assigned normal or calorie-restricted diets to 53 adults. Blood samples revealed a 20 percent drop in damage to cells caused by the by-products of metabolism, known as cellular oxidative stress, which is thought to be a hallmark of ageing. Redman thinks the body adapts to low-calorie diets by lowering its resting metabolic rate.