Since the 1930s calorie restriction has been the gold standard for increasing lifespan in a variety of organisms ranging from worms to mice. The diet gained popularity in the 1980s when Roy Walford and Richard Weindruch managed to extend the lifespan of adult mice successfully for the first time [1]. And then later in 2004,…
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