<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Eugen Leitl</b> <<a href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org">eugen@leitl.org</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> a) a combination of natural substances that greatly increases lifespan<br>> would have been noticed by now<br><br>No, this strikes me as unplausible. Resveratol is natural, but lacking<br>enrichment (ability to extract) the effect is weak.
</blockquote><div><br>The interesting question is whether resveratrol is a complete replacement for CR or only a partial alternative. My guess would be that CR + RES > RES but CR + RES ~= CR but I might be wrong.<br><br>
The question is whether the longevity promotion genomic program has additional effects (biasing DNA repair strategies?) over that which would be provided by a reduction in oxygen intake (CR).<br><br>Robert<br><br></div><br>
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