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Calorie restriction may extend lifespan by changing your sleep

22 March 2018

Cutting the calories you eat by 15 per cent may make you live longer – and it could be because it makes your body shut down more deeply during sleep
Man working on an Old Amish farm

Amish gene can make them live 10 years longer and avoid diabetes

15 November 2017

A gene variant that arose six generations ago in an Amish group seems to make people carrying the gene live ten years longer, and protect them from diabetes

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