Researchers here applied three months of a methionine restricted diet to old mice, and found that it greatly reduced age-related cognitive decline, as measured in maze tests. The methionine restricted animals perform more like young animals than like their unrestricted peers. Methionine is an essential amino acid essential to all protein synthesis. Methionine sensing is one of the more important triggers by which the beneficial response to calorie restriction is activated. Near every aspect of metabolism shifts into a more healthy, life-span-prolonging mode of operation. A methionine rest…
Methionine Restriction Greatly Reduces Measures of Cognitive Decline in Mice
Researchers here applied three months of a methionine restricted diet to old mice, and found that it greatly reduced age-related cognitive decline, as measured in maze tests. The methionine restricted animals perform more like young animals than like their unrestricted peers. Methionine is an essential amino acid essential to all protein synthesis. Methionine sensing is one of the more important triggers by which the beneficial response to calorie restriction is activated. Near every aspect of metabolism shifts into a more healthy, life-span-prolonging mode of operation. A methionine rest…