Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 17th 2023

In conclusion, oral NR altered the gut microbiota in rats and mice, but not in humans. In addition, NR attenuated body fat mass gain in rats, and increased fat and energy absorption in the HFD context. Glycine Supplementation as a Methionine Restriction Mimetic https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/04/glycine-supplementation-as-a-methionine-restriction-mimetic/ Supplementation with the non-essential amino acid glycine has been shown to modestly slow aging in short-lived laboratory species. In today's open access review paper, researchers note glycine supplementation as essentially a calorie restriction mimetic approach that works primarily through effects on methionine sensing. Much of the broadly beneficial metabolic response to lowered calorie intake occurs because cells react to low levels of the essential amino acid methionine in ways that increase efficiency of protein production and reuse of materials. For example, this increases the activity of cellular housekeeping activities such as autophagy. More housekeeping means better functioning cells and tissues, and kept up over the long term this has the desirable outcome of lengthening healthy life span. Unfortunately we know that while short-term benefits to health metrics achieved via this sort of approach are much the same in mice versus humans, and thus some form of calorie restriction seems a sensible health practice, long-term effects on life span are much smaller in long-lived species. ...
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