Guest guest Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Are you reading the posts? Just today I posted this: /message/14834 I was older than you before starting and many of us here were older than 55 before starting. on 9/22/2004 4:22 PM, narab8 at paul@... wrote: > I'm 55, reasonably fit for my age, and am seriously considering > adopting a CRON regimen. I wonder, though, how much mid- or long-term > benefit it might have at this stage of my life. I'd be grateful for > any feedback from the group. > > Cheers > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Hi : I am older than you. What caused me to start CRON about six months ago was a study in fruit flies (granted, not close relatives of ours) which showed that even when put on CRON for the first time at the human-equivalent age of 60, quickly saw an 80% (sic) decline in mortality compared with their mates who continued to be fully fed. Also, other flies which had spent most of their lives on CR, saw a sudden huge increase in mortality when, at 'age 60', for the first time since puberty, they were put back on a fully fed diet. (Study done at University College, London, England). Similar experiments with similar results in mice have since been reported in the literature. (Mattson, I believe). It will be a long time before any such study is completed in humans, or any other long-lived species, for an obvious reason - time. Another recent study showed that people (humans) who had been on CR for three years had blood pressures averaging 99/61; and had heart disease risk factors that were off the bottom of the charts - just like those here, at this site, who are well established in a CRON lifestyle. It also showed that the lion's share of the benefits were reaped in the first twelve months. Another study showed that mice had a 75% reduction in cancer incidence between the (human- equivalent) ages of 70 and 100 years. All this stuff was posted here at the time, and can be found in the archives here, if you want to do a little digging. Rodney. > I'm 55, reasonably fit for my age, and am seriously considering > adopting a CRON regimen. I wonder, though, how much mid- or long- term > benefit it might have at this stage of my life. I'd be grateful for > any feedback from the group. > > Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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