July 28, 2024
Research published in Aging Cell has revealed that a nematode species commonly used for aging research lives much longer on an alternate-day fasting regimen, but only when it is administered in middle age and only when the worms are consuming an animal-based protein source. Deciding what to restrict and when Dietary restriction practices have been...
September 07, 2022
A study published in Nature Aging has shown that short-term rapamycin treatment in early adulthood extends lifespan in flies and improves gut health in both flies and mice [1]. A well-studied drug Rapamycin, an inhibitor of mTOR signaling, is capable of extending the lifespan of several organisms and is thus believed to be one of...
