Previous studies with worms and forced periodic fasting life expectancy increased several generations (the equivalent of a human living to 150 years old or more).
Read this is summary of recent research with rhesus monkeys. Split into 2 groups, the calorie restriction (CR) monkeys died 3 times faster than the non-CR group:
“A 20-year study on rhesus monkeys suggests that substantially reducing caloric intake slows the aging process and leads to longer life spans in primates.
Previous studies with yeast, worms, flies, and rodents have suggested that this kind of caloric restriction – a reduction of about 30 percent, and very different from malnutrition – can lead to such health benefits in some mammals, but given the many parallels between rhesus monkeys and humans, this study suggests that these benefits might occur in humans as well.
Ricki Colman and colleagues began their study at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center in 1989 by assigning adult rhesus monkeys, each between age 7 and 14, to either a caloric restriction group or a control group.
Once the monkeys were assigned to a group, the researchers determined their baseline food intake and began reducing the diets of those monkeys in the caloric restriction, or CR, group by 10% for 3 months until they reached the desired 30% restriction.
At the end of the study, 37% of the control group had died of age-related causes while only 13% of the CR group had. This finding means that the control monkeys experienced a death rate from age-related conditions such as diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and brain atrophy three times that of the CR group.
Any monkey that died over the course of the study underwent a complete necropsy by a board-certified pathologist, so that age-related deaths could be distinguished from other unrelated conditions. These results indicate that caloric restriction in adulthood can delay the onset of age-associated pathologies in this species of rhesus monkeys”
Note that life span increase is based on subjects of normal weight. Life expectancy increases when obesity is conquered on a weight control diet, including Kimkins. Increased average life span or health benefits from water fasting, occur with subjects of normal weight.
