Perhaps CR only invokes the release of hormones that have a protective effect on cells. Replicate the hormone and perhaps actual caloric restriction may not be necessary.
From now on you are now in charge of all budgets, articles, blogs, tweets and laboratories relating to CR research. May I suggest that your first fiat be that CR will henceforth only be referred to by acronym.
I'm not sure what bothers me more the slight chance that CR is real enough that I will need to do it or how excited and evangelical people get about their puritanical eating cults.
Intermittent fasting! Just the sound of it is evil.
It entirely depends on how that condition materialized. Would I be hungry forever (but somehow live)? Then no.
If I would never be hungry, then that sounds wonderful.