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Refuse to Die -- Have Babies Instead

There is no need to die so early, when your biology
(governed by your genes) and your creator (your parents;
your evolutionary heritage; your god) have endowed you
with the precious gift of calorie restriction (CR).

From a paper by two age-defying researchers comes
this paragraph below, which states in the last sentence
that CR-animals can still be having babies after their
ad-lib peers are long dead:

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Caloric restriction

One of the best indications that the ageing
process is subject to regulation is that life
span can be extended by caloric restriction.
Caloric restriction typically refers to a diet
in which calories are limited by 30-40%
compared with animals fed ad libitum. Caloric
restriction extends life span in rodents,
worms, yeast and probably primates. This
response to caloric restriction has clear
selective value, because it allows animals to
postpone reproduction until food is available.
However, when food is restored the animals can
produce progeny, even when well-fed controls
are post-reproductive or no longer alive.

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Guarente L, Kenyon C.
Genetic pathways that regulate ageing in model organisms.
Nature. 2000 Nov 9;408(6809):255-62. Review.
PMID: 11089983