According to the U.S. “Daily Science” reported on October 31, Sweden’s Goetheborg University recently found that people reduce calorie intake not only helps delay aging, but also helps delay the onset of diabetes, cancer and other age-related diseases, and the earlier the effect of reducing calorie intake, the more obvious. The study’s leader, Mikael Molin, an expert in cellular molecular biology at the University of Goetheburg, said: “The study was conducted by a researcher from the University of Goetheburg. Molin said: “Research shows that the human body has an enzyme is a key factor in slowing down the body’s aging, it is called oxidoreductase (peroxiredoxin), reduce calorie intake can effectively maintain the activity of this enzyme. Not only that, this enzyme has a vital role for the body, it can effectively protect our body’s genetic material.” Although the researchers can not yet explain the exact principle of this “life extension method”, but on the results of the current study to open, with the active peroxiredoxin reductase can degrade the harmful substances in human cells hydrogen peroxide, and this enzyme only when the body’s calorie intake in getting a certain limit will be very effective. As people grow older, the peroxiredoxin reductase in the body will gradually be damaged and lose its activity, but there is an enzyme that can repair it, it is Srx1, reducing calorie intake will prompt the body to increase the production of Srx1. It is reported that the researchers used monkeys in their experiments, and by gradually reducing the intake of sugar and protein and maintaining the intake of vitamins and minerals, the life span of these monkeys was significantly extended by several years. The researchers then conducted the same experiments on several species such as fish, rodents, insects and fungi, all with good results. The researchers are now testing whether peroxiredoxin can also reduce or delay neurological diseases in humans, because the enzyme also has a protective effect on proteins in the human body, and its process of protecting human proteins is linked to some neurological diseases of aging.