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Diabetic kidney disease is the leading cause of end-stage kidney complication in people with diabetes. Investigators from the Heidelberg University Hospital in Germany published a study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism showing that the fasting mimicking diet...

Growth factors regulated by specific macro-nutrients have been shown to promote ageing and accelerate mortality in the majority of the organisms studied. In particular, the enzymes activated by growth hormone, insulin, and insulin-like growth factor-1 in mammals and their orthologs...

Mutations in growth signaling pathways extend life span, as well as protect against age-dependent DNA dam-age in yeast and decrease insulin resistance and cancer in mice. To test their effect in humans, we monitored for 22 years Ecuadorian individuals who...