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posted by martyb on Monday September 17 2018, @08:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the old-man-with-young-blood-[vessels] dept.

New Atlas:

Diet trends like intermittent fasting and ketogenesis are proving wildly popular for their rapid weight-loss effects, but scientists are also starting to uncover how they might benefit the body in other, longer term ways. Case in point: a molecule produced during fasting has now been found to apply the brakes to aging of the vascular system, a process closely tied to the aging of the human body as a whole.

When the body enters ketosis, a metabolic state induced by fasting and low-carb diets, it turns to the body's stored fats for energy, rather than glucose. One of these sources of energy, known collectively as ketones, is a molecule called β-Hydroxybutyrate.

"Previously, studies on ketone bodies focused on energy metabolism, but this study showed that there are other physiological effects which regulate cell cycle to retardate aging progression," study senior author Dr. Ming-Hui Zou tells New Atlas.

The more you starve, the longer you live.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @10:18PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @10:18PM (#736244)

    Who said you have to go without? Just start with eating less than 700 g of carbs per week. So you can eat a couple of those, but (probably) won't even want to bother making/ordering them once you try it. Sugar is an addictive white powder, it was considered a drug until very recently.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @10:53PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @10:53PM (#736262)

    You millennials are a hoot. Twenty years from now, you'll realize that carbohydrates are an essential factor in human diet and reducing them is what resulted in your generation's gender confusion. But by then it well be too late.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @11:04PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @11:04PM (#736268)

      Yea the food pyramid you were brainwashed with was right all along, and somehow the spread of free info about diet on the internet in the last few years is responsible for "millennial" behavior going back decades earlier. Just keep letting the govenerment pump you full of whatever they want...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @11:42PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 17 2018, @11:42PM (#736284)

        c'mon it's obviously a satirical post, gender identity and carbs? lol

  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 18 2018, @02:33AM (3 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 18 2018, @02:33AM (#736343) Homepage Journal

    Kid, what's in fashion diet-wise changes every couple years. Adult long enough and you'll notice this too. The truth is human beings can eat damned near anything short of hubcaps and get along just fine. That's what omnivores do.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 4, Touché) by coolgopher on Tuesday September 18 2018, @05:43AM (1 child)

      by coolgopher (1157) on Tuesday September 18 2018, @05:43AM (#736397)

      ...just not get along *with each other*.

      • (Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 18 2018, @10:51AM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 18 2018, @10:51AM (#736453) Homepage Journal

        Having functionally wiped out most of the multi-cellular lifeforms that are worth fighting and lacking any extraterrestrial lifeforms to fight, we've no choice but to turn to our most ancient enemy, humans.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @05:59AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 18 2018, @05:59AM (#736401)

      Those fads are mostly government approved, this one is not but easy enough for people to prove to themselves.