Living Longer Thru Atkins

There's a fascinating article in today's New Scientist online. It's an
interview with Cynthia Kenyon, a well-known biologist who studies
aging, and who's been able to double the active lifespan of C. elegans
worms.

In the middle of the article, she mentions she's on (basically)
Atkins. She had tried caloric restriction, which is known to extend
lifespan in the lower animals. But she couldn't handle being hungry
all the time. So she cut out all sugars & simple carbs instead.

She loves it, and says its reduction of insulin levels is similar to
the kind of effects she expects the next crop of anti-aging drugs to
have.

Check it out!

Emma

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994271

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I was really interested in this but the link you listed just sent me to the New
Scientist site. I found the article you're talking about ( I think) by
searching on Cynthia Kenyon but I didn't see any mention of Atkins.

Was this the one you meant?

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993303

c

Jonesing for Science

The correct URL is:

http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/...jsp?id=ns24171

I think this is indeed very interesting. Unfortunately, with humans,
longevity is very hard to study indeed (you have to wait so damned
long).

We can only hope that 50-75 years from now we'll start to see the
first groups of long-lived low-carbers passing the century mark in
great shape.

I would love to see someone do a study on the effects of low carb
diets in the elderly. Unfortunately with the medical establishments
view of low-carb they'd probably see such a study as borderline
unethical.

A question for the group - is there any historical precedent for long
term adherence to a low carb, high quality diet? What I mean is, are
there any historical records for societies that ate a largely low carb
diet due to local food availability? It would be interesting to get
an idea of what their longevity was.

My guess is that there aren't any such societies - as most of the
truly successful civilizations where heavily agricultural (grain
based) - and most of the low carber were subsistence level
hunter-gatherers who probably died for reasons other than old age.

-josh






-josh


EmmaPeel wrote in message . ..
There's a fascinating article in today's New Scientist online. It's an
interview with Cynthia Kenyon, a well-known biologist who studies
aging, and who's been able to double the active lifespan of C. elegans
worms.

In the middle of the article, she mentions she's on (basically)
Atkins. She had tried caloric restriction, which is known to extend
lifespan in the lower animals. But she couldn't handle being hungry
all the time. So she cut out all sugars & simple carbs instead.

She loves it, and says its reduction of insulin levels is similar to
the kind of effects she expects the next crop of anti-aging drugs to
have.

Check it out!

Emma

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994271

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(Icrazyhorsei) wrote:

I was really interested in this but the link you listed just sent me to the New
Scientist site. I found the article you're talking about ( I think) by
searching on Cynthia Kenyon but I didn't see any mention of Atkins.

Was this the one you meant?

xxxxx

DOH! Sorry, Joshua Vanderberg got it right:

http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/...jsp?id=ns24171

She mentions her low-carb diet about 3/4 the way thru the interview.
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A question for the group - is there any historical precedent for long
term adherence to a low carb, high quality diet?

Eskimos?

- Anne