Eliminating Distractions in Longevity Research

This is the sixth in a series of timed posts. The way these work is that if it takes me more than one hour to complete the post, an applet that I made deletes everything I’ve written so far and I abandon the post. Check out previous examples here, here, here, here, and here. I placed the advertisement before I started my writing timer. VitaDAO is a longevity-focused Decentralized Autonomous Organization that has just funded a study by Pabis et al. that left me stunned. One of the study’s results might overturn 89 years of longevity research, and all it took was checking a meta-analytic moderator. The research that’s come into question is on the benefits of caloric restriction for lifespan. The idea behind this research is that eating just enough to live supports a longer life. The extent of the benefit on the table here has been thought to potentially be pretty enormous, perhaps even on the order of a 30% or 40% boost to longevity—definitely an attractive idea that’s worth pursuing if

This is the sixth in a series of timed posts. The way these work is that if it takes me more than one hour to complete the post, an applet that I made deletes everything I’ve written so far and I abandon the post. Check out previous examples here, here, here, here, and here. I placed the advertisement before I started my writing timer. VitaDAO is a longevity-focused Decentralized Autonomous Organization that has just funded a study by Pabis et al. that left me stunned. One of the study’s results might overturn 89 years of longevity research, and all it took was checking a meta-analytic moderat