Aging and Nutrition: Novel Approaches and Techniques

Aging and Nutrition: Novel Approaches and Techniques is organized by The New York Academy of Sciences and would be held on Dec 2, 2016 at The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, United States of America.

Several interventions have been identified that significantly extend healthy lifespan in mammals. Caloric restriction, for example, has been shown to improve healthspan in a variety of organisms, including rodents. Conversely, animals fed a diet with a normal caloric content, but with limiting amounts of the essential amino acid methionine, are up to 45% longer-lived than control animals. These and many other studies collectively demonstrate that alterations in nutrition and metabolism can have profound effects on healthy aging.