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LSU Biomedical Research Center: A Single Hormone Directs Body's Responses to Low-Protein Diet
May 14, 2022
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 14 (TNSJou) -- The Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center issued the following news release:

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Mice Live Longer and Lose Weight While Eating More When FGF21 Is Present

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A single hormone appears to coordinate the lifespan extension produced by a low-protein diet.

A new study from Pennington Biomedical Research Center, published in the journal Nature Communications . . .

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