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

Food, We Need To Talk

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How Much Longer Do You Think You'll Live if You Start Restricting in Your 20s?

The more they're restricted, the longer they live. What you have to think about is what happens if you start it later? What happens if you institute the restriction when you're 50 or 60? So do you want to guess in the best case scenario, let's say this works exactly the same way in humans as it does in mice? How much longer do you think you live if you started restricting calories in your 20s? 15 years. Try again lower. Five years. Pretty close. It's about six or seven years. Even if it works just like it does in a mice, it's not going to give us these massive benefits that people have been talking about about extending our

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