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#328 - Health & Longevity

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Effects of Caloric Restrictions on LifeSpan and Health

There are caloric restriction societies of people who do exactly what you're describing. We know that yeast and worms and fruit flies and rodents, at least in a laboratory environment will live longer under CR conditions. But we don't know if that's true for humans who live in the real world. And as I devote probably half a chapter to in the book, it turned out to not even be clear that CR was beneficial there.

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