Nice long form article exploring Laron syndrome which protects the few hundred people with it from cancer and diabetes, and how researchers are mimicking its disease-protection effects via caloric-restriction diets.
The experimental diet that mimics a rare genetic mutation
Peter Bowes has been on a new diet that claims to guard against disease and slow ageing. Then he met a group with a mutation that lets them eat what they want while enjoying the same protection.
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