by Impact Journals LLC Blood methionine level at day 15 (A) and day 29 (B). Credit: 2023 Kubota et al Obesity increases with aging. Methionine restriction affects lipid metabolism and can prevent obesity in mice. In a new study published in the journal Aging, researchers from AntiCancer Inc., University of California San Diego and Showa University School of...
Researchers here applied three months of a methionine restricted diet to old mice, and found that it greatly reduced age-related cognitive decline, as measured in maze tests. The methionine restricted animals perform more like young animals than like their unrestricted peers. Methionine is an essential amino acid essential to all protein synthesis. Methionine sensing is one of the more important...
