According to a study by the University of Texas, the ketogenic diet would make the cells of the males age above all. How do you explain?
Not all food regimes work the same way for men and women, and the ketogenic diet It is no exception. Indeed, according to a new study, the differences are more marked than you think. David Gius of the University of Health Sciences of Texas observed in a study that the accumulation of senescent cells, those that express marker of aging, increased only in male mice subjected to the ketogenic regime. The females, on the other hand, were immune from this processbenefiting greater than the keto. “This suggests that estrogen could be an important variable in response to such a diet,” says Gius (The conditional is a must, given that the study has now focused on mice, editor’s note).
In practice, in male mice the ketogenic diet increased the markers of oxidative stress, which contributes to cell aging. And when the females were treated with tamoxifenand Estrogen blockershowed the same problems: oxidative stress and cellular senescence increasing. The pattern was also repeated with other diets rich in fats which, although containing more carbohydrates than a classic keto, always induclied senescence in males.
The discovery comes after years of studies mainly for male. “It was preferred to use male mice for research because it was taken for granted that the females gave less consistent results due to the cycle variability“, explains Gius.” But recent studies suggest that it is an unfounded fear “.
Ketogenic, diet that replaces carbohydrates with fats to induce the production of ketones as an alternative fuel to glucose, He showed benefits in controlling epilepsy and other conditions. But the effects, according to the researchers, could (the conditional is a must) depend on different variables, not least The action of sex hormones.
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