insulin and inflammation study
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This bit reminds me of this Junkfood Science blog post about calorie restriction in rhesus monkeys; Quote:
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Not that excessively low inflammation is likely to be much of a problem for most of us here. It is interesting that as deaths from infectious disease have fallen off--a failure of the immune defenses--inflammation and immune diseases seem to have taken off. I also wonder about the immune effects of IF, especially of the every other day fasting sort (24 hour dinner to dinner) in comparison to calorie restriction, even if the calories averaged out the same, the stimulus to the immune system should be very different. |
The flatworm study indicated it was carb, not calorie, restriction which made the magic happen.
Geneticist Cynthia Kenyon: Eat A Low-Carb Diet To Live Longer And Healthier Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking with it :) |
I think the sort of life extension we're talking about here is still speculative in humans--but the life shortening effects of insulin resistance and diabetes related diseases is not, so I guess I'm with you.
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I find the study very interesting... but, perhaps, misguided?
Like, from all available evidence, diseases of civilization are diseases of chronic inflammation. That's the bottom line, as I see it. |
I don't think that they're saying they aren't diseases of inflammation. The basic idea is that the immune system is stimulated by exposure to potentially infectious agents. Our greatest exposure to infectious agents is through the microorganisms in our guts. Famine decreases this exposure--so a weaker, less developed immune system leaves us more vulnerable if a pathogen does show up--it's sort of analagous to an inoculation, we practice on those less dangerous gut microbes. Or you could put it another way, and less exposure to microbes leaves us with an underdeveloped immune system. Just like when it's suggested that keeping kids too clean will leave them with an underdeveloped immune system. On the other hand, an overdeveloped or even just adequately developed immune system could leave us more vulnerable to the "friendly fire" of autoimmune disease, if the diet also contributed to some other factor such as leaky gut--anyways, there's lots of room for a strong immune system being just fine, in the ordinary course of things.
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