Roy Walford
Roy L. Walford (born June 29, 1924 in San Diego , California - † April 27, 2004 ) was an American gerontologist . He was the founder of the Calorie Restriction Society , author of several non-fiction books, and one of the scientists in Biosphere 2 .
Profession and Research
Walford was Pathology - Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1986, in laboratory tests with mice, he found a longer life expectancy with a reduced-calorie diet ( calorie restriction ). Through low but high-quality food intake, he was able to increase life expectancy by 30 percent, among other things by reducing diabetes mellitus and cancer . In 1998 he was awarded the IPSEN Foundation's Longevity Prize .
Calorie Restriction Society
The CR, founded by Walford, has three thousand members worldwide, twelve of them in Germany. You will be medically observed. A heart disease was hardly to be observed, the blood pressure values mostly optimal. However, a reduction in the growth hormone IgF1, as in CR mice, could only be determined in vegans, i.e. when they renounced animal proteins .
Private life
Roy Walford died of a nervous disease at the age of 79 .
literature
- Roy L. Walford: Life over a hundred , Piper Verlag GmbH 1987, ISBN 978-3-492-02841-7
swell
- Desiree Karge: Starving for a long life. In: Bild der Wissenschaft 5, 2009, p. 108.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walford, Roy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walford, Roy L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Diego , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 27, 2004 |