A study published this week shows that the extreme, emaciating diet doesn’t increase lifespan in rhesus monkeys, the closest human relatives to try it in a rigorous, long-running study. “If there’s a way to manipulate the human diet to let us live longer, we haven’t figured it out yet, and it may not exist,” said biologist Steven Austad of the University of Texas Health Science Center’s Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, who wrote an
...moreA study published this week shows that the extreme, emaciating diet doesn’t increase lifespan in rhesus monkeys, the closest human relatives to try it in a rigorous, long-running study. “If there’s a way to manipulate the human diet to let us live longer, we haven’t figured it out yet, and it may not exist,” said biologist Steven Austad of the University of Texas Health Science Center’s Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, who wrote an analysis of the study in Nature. “They have better cholesterol profiles, less muscle loss, less disease," he said. "But it didn’t translate into greater longevity.”
