[ExI] How effective is caloric restriction likely to be in humans?

[Max More]

Unless I'm misinterpreting you, Damien, you are saying that Aubrey's 
argument as to why caloric restriction is unlikely to yield more than 
2 to 3 years of life extension is stupid and crackpotish. I'm not 
committed either way on the matter, but his argument does seem fairly 
plausible to me and doesn't contradict existing data that I'm aware 
of. (We will have to wait another couple of decades for useful data 
on non-human hominids.)

So, why exactly are you dismissing Aubrey's critiquie of caloric 
restriction so harshly? What are you counter-arguments?

Thanks,

Max


>On 3/25/2010 2:31 PM, spike wrote:
>
> > Consequently, the conclusion is compelling that since CR works for
> > mammals and other beasts, it should work for proles.  The way I
> > explain the apparent lower benefit is that we already reap some of the
> > CR benefits by our lifestyles.
>
>The usual argument is that we've already got most of the life-extending
>upregulating and downregulating genomic benefits as a result of
>selection. But I do like the weather cycle theory; it fits nicely as a
>subroutine in my Famous Crackpot Theory of 300 Year Cultural Cycles
>(given a workout in my book THEORY AND ITS DISCONTENTS, Deakin
>University Press, available just about nowhere).
>
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