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How Eating Less Can Slow the Aging Process

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_RE_5738 1702-13 John Price December 9, 2016 Photography by Nate Edwards/BYU © BYU PHOTO 2016 All Rights Reserved photo@byu.edu (801)422-7322
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There’s a multi-billion-dollar industry devoted to products that fight signs of aging, but moisturizers only go skin deep. Aging occurs deeper — at a cellular level — and scientists have found that eating less can slow this cellular process.

Recent research published in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics offers one glimpse into how cutting calories impacts aging inside a cell. The researchers found that when ribosomes — the cell’s protein makers — slow down, the aging process slows too. The decreased speed lowers production but gives ribosomes extra time to repair themselves.

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