May 16, 2023
Previously, research has shown that even just the taste and smell of food can reverse the benefits of restricting one’s diet, even if you don’t actually eat the food. This is what inspired first author Kristy Weaver, Ph.D., principal investigator Scott Pletcher, Ph.D., and their colleagues to examine whether the brain activity which triggers the drive to seek out food could be the key to a longer life.
“We’ve sort of divorced [the life extending effects of diet restriction] from all of the nutritional manipulations of the diet that researchers had worked on for many years to say they’re not required,” says Pletcher in a university release. “The perception of not enough food is sufficient.”
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