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Makes sense to me. Also if you stop eating food might want the body to shape up to get some as a last gasp effort.
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CR would indicate “famine” and would tell your body that
“today is not a viable time to have offspring”
Learning that that is the case, the body would delay aging as a response so you will have more time in the future to produce an offspring..
farfetched but what do you think?
ReplyGeorge, no, not farfetched at all, IMO. Indeed, whether CR does this purposefully or not is the crux of my article. I think we don’t know.
ReplyWell this could be useful for would be cougars, yes?
So they wont hit the wall too soon
Ha HA so now we can tell Women being skinny is good for their health?
ReplyRan across this.
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/01/single-gene-modification-lengthen-fruit.html#more
“…increasing the activity of a gene that targets damaged cells…”
Hmm…fasting does the same.
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