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The Anti-aging Pill
Cambridge 6 | Test 3 | Passage 3
The Anti-aging Pill
To delay aging, people would have to reduce their caloric intake by roughly thirty per cent. Few mortals could stick to that harsh regimen, especially for years on end. But what if someone could create a pill that mimicked the physiological effects of eating less without actually forcing people to eat
less? Could such a “caloric-restriction mimetic,” as we call it, enable people to stay healthy longer, postponing age-related disorders until very late in life? Scientists first posed this question in the mid-1990s, after researchers came upon a chemical agent that in rodents seemed to reproduce many
of caloric restriction’s benefits. No compound that would safely achieve the same feat in people has been found yet, but the search has been informative and has fanned hope that caloric-restriction mimetics can indeed be developed eventually.
regimen noun [C]
any set of rules about food and exercise that someone follows,
especially in order to improve their health
mimic verb [T]
to look or behave like something else
postpone verb [T]
to delay an event and plan or decide that it should happen at a later
date or time
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By LingophoenixCambridge 6 | Test 3 | Passage 3
The Anti-aging Pill
To delay aging, people would have to reduce their caloric intake by roughly thirty per cent. Few mortals could stick to that harsh regimen, especially for years on end. But what if someone could create a pill that mimicked the physiological effects of eating less without actually forcing people to eat
less? Could such a “caloric-restriction mimetic,” as we call it, enable people to stay healthy longer, postponing age-related disorders until very late in life? Scientists first posed this question in the mid-1990s, after researchers came upon a chemical agent that in rodents seemed to reproduce many
of caloric restriction’s benefits. No compound that would safely achieve the same feat in people has been found yet, but the search has been informative and has fanned hope that caloric-restriction mimetics can indeed be developed eventually.
regimen noun [C]
any set of rules about food and exercise that someone follows,
especially in order to improve their health
mimic verb [T]
to look or behave like something else
postpone verb [T]
to delay an event and plan or decide that it should happen at a later
date or time