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Want to Boost Your Germ-Fighting Abilities? Cut Your Calories

by Kristen King on January 29th, 2007

Granted, the research was performed with monkeys, but the logic holds strong:

Limiting consumption of calories seems to boost key infection-fighting cells in the immune system, the researchers say.

“The key finding is that in a primate species, which is very similar to ourselves, there is a very remarkable effect on the maintenance of the immune system with caloric restriction,” said lead researcher Dr. Janko Nikolich-Zugich, a senior scientist at Oregon Health & Science University’s Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute.

Read the summary here.

Contents © Copyright 2007 Kristen King

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