AdeleneDawner comments on Open Thread: March 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 02 March 2010 11:43:51AM 2 points [-]

Noteworthy: CR is not a particular interest of mine, and I haven't researched it.

If there are good, solid studies of CR in rats, why doesn't that site seem to have, or link to, information about them? If that's the site for CR, and given that it has a publicly editable (yes, I checked) wiki, I'd expect that someone would have added that information, and it's not there: I searched for both "study" and "studies" in the wiki; nothing about rat studies - or any other animal studies, except a mention of monkey studies - showed up.

A google site search does turn up this, though.

Comment author: timtyler 02 March 2010 09:50:57PM *  0 points [-]

Don't bother with the site's wiki.

They have a reference to a mouse study on the front page of the site:

Weindruch R, et al. (1986). "The retardation of aging in mice by dietary restriction: longevity, cancer, immunity and lifetime energy intake." Journal of Nutrition, April, 116(4), pages 641-54.

For the evidence from the rat studies, perhaps start with this review article:

Overview of caloric restriction and ageing.

http://www.crsociety.org/archive/read.php?2,172427,172427