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Does Being Hungry Make You Live Longer? Calorie Restriction and Longevity

Food, We Need To Talk

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Professor Spieckman and his colleagues were interested in finding out what exactly about this restriction is causing an increased lifespan. A couple of genes in your brain, MPY and AGRP, that creates this state. That's what tells the animal you're in a restricted state. And that then enables all these other things to happen down straight.

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