The researchers tested common treatments for aging, including intermittent fasting which reduces calorie consumption, targeting a central node of cell metabolism (mTOR), and interfering with the release of growth hormone.
A new study has examined the effectiveness of three treatment approaches that were previously thought to slow the aging process. However, when tested on mice, the researchers found that these treatments had a limited impact on aging.
“There is no internal clock of aging that you can regulate with a simple switch — at least not in the form of the treatments studied here,” concludes Dr. Dan Ehninger of the DZNE, the initiator of the study. The team has developed a new analytical approach to make influences on aging processes measurable.
The study, which was conducted by researchers from DZNE, Helmholtz Munich, and the German Center for Diabetes (DZD) has been published in the journal
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