Calorie Restriction

David Fisher, 61 years old, is one of the few long term adherents to calorie restriction in the world. While most people only stick to a diet for just a few weeks or months at a time, he has managed to maintain a strict CR diet for 30 years! In 2004, he was featured in the Guardian, where he explained how he came across the diet, why he began restricting his calories, and he gave some information about his diet at the time. Then in 2009, Dave took part in a series of interviews in newspapers such as The Independent, …

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, Spindler and his group to extended both mean and maximum lifespan of mice when CR was initiated at 19 months of age, proving that it was never too late to benefit from CR if done properly [2, 3]. And while it was now proven that …

Starting a calorie restriction diet could possibly be the best thing you can do for your health and longevity, but it’s not the easiest thing the world for most people. Only those with a high level of discipline, determination, and belief that it works have been able to stick it out long term. People who practice a CR Diet do so in many different ways, there is no single definition of what a CR diet should comprise of when it comes to the foods we include or the macronutrient ratios we adhere to. How we practice calorie restriction can be …

This study on calorie restriction in the grey mouse lemur primate came as a surprise. For 10-years, researchers at CNRS and the French National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), as well as other teams, were studying the effect of long-term caloric restriction starting from early adulthood. Calorie restriction has long been known to reduce the risk of common diseases as well as extend maximum lifespan in a variety of species from worms, spiders, mice, dogs, and rhesus monkeys. In recent years we’ve had two major studies published on the effect of the diet in rhesus monkeys showing that calorie restriction …

There are many centenarians in the UK, but Fauja stands out from the rest. When he was over 100 years old he was able to run the London Marathon! An amazing accomplishment at any age, but even more so for someone who has been alive for over a century. He holds many different records for similar feats of endurance, according to his Wikipedia page. Many of us would love to be able to accomplish something like this in our senior years. Who is Fauja Singh? Fauja Singh was born on the 1st of April 1911. He is part of the …