for anyone confused by the unexpected part of the title given the decades of research:
“We hypothesized that telomere loss would be slower among people on caloric restriction,” the study’s senior author Isan Shalev, an associate professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State, said in a statement.
However, what they found was less black and white. After one year of caloric restriction, the participant’s actually lost their telomeres more rapidly than those on a standard diet. However, after two years, once the participants’ weight had stabilized, they began to lose their telomeres more slowly.
for anyone confused by the unexpected part of the title given the decades of research:
“We hypothesized that telomere loss would be slower among people on caloric restriction,” the study’s senior author Isan Shalev, an associate professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State, said in a statement.
However, what they found was less black and white. After one year of caloric restriction, the participant’s actually lost their telomeres more rapidly than those on a standard diet. However, after two years, once the participants’ weight had stabilized, they began to lose their telomeres more slowly.