Calorie restriction in humans builds strong muscle and stimulates healthy aging genes: Study

Medical Xpress / National Institutes of Health / Aging Cell ^ | Oct. 13, 2023 | Jayanta Kumar Das et al

[ConservativeMind]

Reducing calories while keeping the same level of vitamins and minerals led to gene activations for better aging.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Prince of Space]

If this is true, I’ll be immortal. At 5’ tall, I’ve been restricting my caloric intake since I was 14. I just turned 70, lol.

[Libloather]

Ze bug buffet will remain open.

[jerod]

So what you're saying is that if I look like this... I don't stand a chance?

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Let’s see - healthy aging or an In-N-Out Double Double animal style? Decisions....

[Fungi]

Nonsense. Mutually exclusive.

[Honest Nigerian]

So hard to understand how this is POSSIBLE.
Eat less and live longer?
Eat less and grow stronger?
Eat less and spend less time eating?
Eat less and spend less money on food?
What an amazing thing to learn just as Big Pharma is pushing a variety of weight loss drugs.
Be aware, those weight loss drugs all have side effects, and the pictures and stories and music on the TV ads are MARKETING.
“Marketing” is just an alternate spelling of “misleading”, in most cases.

[kelly4c]

Bookmark

[Bobalu]

Maybe when the balloon goes up and the food supply chain collapses we will all live forever...

[nevermorelenore]

PUFA calories should be totally restricted,

it all depends on what KIND of calories one consumes

[ckilmer]

I’m doing that now out of necessity.

But I wonder if lowering food intake at my age will also decrease muscle mass.

[Red Badger]

I need my healthy aging genes stimulated..............

[CommerceComet]

Reducing calories while keeping the same level of vitamins and minerals led to gene activations for better aging.

Isn't this just another way of saying eliminate junk food? Calories with little or no nutritional value (like chips, sweets, and soda) are hard on the body long term. Although easier said than done, eating healthy and eating light is wise.

[Chuckster]

Now in my 75th year, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen anyone older than me who was fat.

[Chuckster]

But I wonder if lowering food intake at my age will also decrease muscle mass.

I have the same concern. Gaining muscle after forty is extremely difficult. The key is not to just reduce the amount of food. More important is the quality of the food and the fat/protein/carb balance.

Exercise however is the deciding factor. Not hours in the gym. Just a 30 to 40 minute walk every day and some light resistance work combined with sufficient animal protein in your diet is all you will need.

At fifty I was a dedicated gym rat; a lean and hard 180. Now in my seventies, I hover around 140; still lean with good muscle definition and I haven't been in a gym in 15 years.

That has been my experience. FWIW

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

This “study” is relatively worthless. What is the basis of “a 12% reduction”? Were these overweight fatties? What were the nutritional characteristics of their before and after diet? Did their exercise habits change? Did they do any fasting?

[daniel1212]

Reducing calories while keeping the same level of vitamins and minerals led to gene activations for better aging.

Now you are in trouble!

[ckilmer]

Yeah, I’ve started to do protein shakes. I never did them before. But the guidelines I’m reading on daily protein intake is way more than I normally eat.

I’m always battling with one injury or another so my work out schedule is one that gets better and better and better day after day week after week. And then I pull a muscle somewhere and I’m out for a week or two.

Apparently I don’t know how to work out without injuring myself.

I was up around 190 six weeks ago or so. Now I’m below 180. I think I’ve got a routine that will get me down below 160. I’m hoping what comes off is fat. I’m hoping too the mix of drugs supplement and diet will remove the plaque from my carotids.