[extropy-chat] AGING: Live fast, die old

Don Dartfield twodeel at jornada.org
Tue Jun 8 23:10:07 UTC 2004


On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 jpnitya at sapo.pt wrote:

> The finding challenges a century-old theory that animals with higher
> metabolic rates die younger. This is based on observations that big
> animals with low metabolic rates, such as elephants, tend to outlive
> small, high metabolism ones, such as mice: hence the old adage, "live
> fast, die young."

I wonder if this is related to caloric restriction.  Maybe having a faster
metabolism acts as a sort of natural CR diet...?




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