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Today's programme was an interview with Prof Dame Linda Partridge who talked about her work on ageing and mentioned (in the second half of the programme) how a calorie restricted diet led to longer life in test animals. She said this would work in humans too, but because it would take too much willpower on our part, researchers are looking at new drugs that would have the same effect.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sm6q6

Today's programme was an interview with Prof Dame Linda Partridge who talked about her work on ageing and mentioned (in the second half of the programme) how a calorie restricted diet led to longer life in test animals. She said this would work in humans too, but because it would take too much willpower on our part, researchers are looking at new drugs that would have the same effect.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sm6q6

I heard half of this in the car on the way to work but had to go into the office before this bit. Thanks for the link.

Thanks Silverbelle, I too had caught a snippet of this but not enough to realise what it was about. Interesting to listen to it properly. So until we can all start popping rapamycin, fasting is the way to longer life...?

[carorees]

mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) is inhibited by fasting and protein restriction according to the studies I found. Search the forum for mTOR!

Thanks Caroline for the reminder about your earlier posts on mTOR. A problem with mTOR I think is the difficulty of measuring it? But there are some tests being developed - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20417611, and there even seems to be a kit for sale here, though it's for labs not home use...