Saturday 12 April 2014

By Mimicking a Low-Carb Diet, Glucosamine Promotes Longevity

For many decades, glucosamine has been freely available in drugstores, it is widely used to treat arthritis and to prevent joint degeneration. Moreover, glucosamine is known to delay cancer growth. In addition, glucosamine reduces metabolism of nutritive sugars, as was already shown some 50 years ago. In 2007, Michael Ristow showed that too much nutritive sugar shortens the lifespan of roundworms, a widely studied model organism in ageing research. ...

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