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June 19, 2013. The journal PLOS ONE published an article online on May 21, 2013 which reports a benefit for Rhodiola rosea in extending the life span of fruit flies when administered orally. The herb does not appear to promote longevity via mechanisms involved in calorie restriction, which is a well known method of extending life span in experimental models.
Previous studies revealed that Rhodiola can extend the lives of flies, worms and yeast. In order to determine whether Rhodiola utilized the same mechanisms as calorie restriction, Mahtab Jafari and colleagues at the University of California, Irvine gave Rhodiola to fruit flies provided with diets containing reduced amounts of yeast. If Rhodiola extended lifespan in a manner similar to that of dietary restriction, it was not expected to be associated with longer life in animals in which the molecular pathways associated with dietary restriction were already affected, however, Dr Jafari’s team observed an increase in mean and maximum life span in male and female flies that received Rhodiola. “We found that Rhodiola actually increases lifespan on top of that of dietary restriction,” he stated. “It demonstrates that Rhodiola can act even in individuals who are already long-lived and healthy.”
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