Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Caloric restriction improves health and survival of rhesus monkeys

  • Julie A. Mattison,
  • Ricki J. Colman,
  • T. Mark Beasley,
  • David B. Allison,
  • Joseph W. Kemnitz,
  • George S. Roth,
  • Donald K. Ingram,
  • Richard Weindruch,
  • Rafael de Cabo,
  • Rozalyn M. Anderson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14063
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Caloric restriction (CR) delays ageing of model organisms, but whether it works in nonhuman primates has been controversial. Here, the authors pool and reanalyse data from two long-running CR primate studies, concluding that moderate CR indeed improves health and survival of rhesus monkeys.