Calorie restriction could slow ageing and preserve memory


While scientists caution that calorie restriction is not the path to the fountain of youth, the study does give researchers more insight to gene expressions. - AFP

Classic diets that make you feel really hungry may slow down ageing genes.

Going on a diet – the old fashioned kind that heeds no promise to curb hunger – can halt the normal rise and fall of over 900 different genes related to ageing and memory formation in the brain, according to a team of neuroscientists at New York University's Langone Medical Center.

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