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The NIA rhesus study reports no significant survival benefit

The National Institute on Aging's parallel rhesus macaque study reports in Nature that caloric restriction did not significantly improve survival, contradicting the Wisconsin result. A 2017 joint analysis attributes the divergence to differences in diet composition, age at onset and the feeding of the control animals, which at Wisconsin may have been effectively overfed. The disagreement is the most instructive episode in the field.

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Recorded on Caloric restriction

  1. Caloric restriction extends rodent lifespan
  2. Wisconsin reports that caloric restriction reduces age-related mortality in rhesus monkeys
  3. The NIA rhesus study reports no significant survival benefit
  4. CALERIE reports two-year results in humans

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