291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

4495.528 - 4521.875 Venki Ramakrishnan

He said, all this shows is that an all-you-can-eat diet is bad for you. Because in the wild, you never have all you can eat. This is a problem of a plentiful food supply, civilized society. But nevertheless, caloric restriction makes a difference, and it does affect a number of pathways. And people have found out that there are drugs that can inhibit some of these pathways.