Reducing One Amino Acid Could Increase Lifespan

John Bryson writes "Eating less of one amino acid might lengthen your life. There have been lots of previous studies showing that many species live long on highly restricted calories, but a lot of this benefit may be possible by only restricting one amino acid. Amino acids that have shown this have been tryptophan and methionine. A recent study, published online December 2 in Nature, a highly respected journal, may help explain some of the health benefits of restricted-calorie diets."

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Re:Hunter-Gatherers were better off in some ways

[arminw]

....Gen 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel. ...

You left out the one big bright spot in all of this dismal story. It is the promise of God that the seed of the woman will bring forth the Redeemer who will reverse the result of this sad episode, death, commonly referred to as the fall of man.

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He will crush your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

In human biology, the seed is commonly referred to as that of the man, the sperm, not the female egg. There was one exception to this and that is in the birth of Jesus. He was born of a virgin and the seed of fallen man was not involved. He was thus eligible to be the Redeemer of all mankind, because he was not tainted by God's curse upon mankind. Jesus took the curse of death, but because he was the only person who was not tainted with sin and never sinned himself, the curse of God, namely death, could not contain him.

Even a cursory reading of the biblical resurrection accounts, shows that the body that Jesus had after his resurrection was very different from the kind of body we now have. It was a transcendent body not subject to the laws of physics as we know them.

Jesus says to all who are willing to believe Him:

John 6:57 As the living Father has sent Me, and I live through the Father, so he who partakes of Me, even he shall live by Me.

That is why Christians, throughout almost 20 centuries now have been celebrating communion, which is the partaking of Christ. All who do this by faith, are given the promise of a resurrection to eternal life.

The apostle Paul gives a little more detail of what is in store for every true Christian in 1Corinthians 15:12 to 15:26

For a true believer in Jesus Christ, there is in store, not another body buttressed by the technology of modern medicine, yet in the end subject to death, but a resurrected, transcendent, eternal, immortal body, with powers and abilities we cannot even imagine.