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I wonder what are the currently best established DIY techniques to slow aging. I know low food intake could help, but what else?

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There is nothing else. Basically, calorie restriction works, and nothing else does. I recommend Fight Aging! if you are interested.

https://www.fightaging.org/faq/

> Basically, calorie restriction works, and nothing else does

We don't even know that for sure. There were two big studies in rhesus monkeys which disagreed on that.[1] Evidence from mice, where this idea originated, is dubious at best considering the mice most studies use.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/science/a-new-salvo-in-deb...

I'm not so sure those are the only two. I'm fairly certain high dietary intake of various vegetables, fruits, and legumes over processed foods would probably greatly add to the life expectancy of regular people. Don't have a lot of hard evidence but I have relatives who outlived their brothers and sisters by 10-20 years because they just ate significantly healthier and moved around more.

Healthy diet keeps you healthy, but it does not slow aging. It prevents death from reasons other than aging.

To prove "slowing aging", you need to demonstrate increase in maximum lifespan, not average lifespan. Exercise, diet, etc. increase average lifespan. There is no evidence they increase maximum lifespan, none at all.

"Moving around more" actually does significantly lower your risk of death from cardiovascular events (at the very least). http://healthland.time.com/2013/12/19/how-many-steps-does-it...

Common sense, while harder to study in a lab than a new specific medicine XYZ, actually can serve us well in the messy real world.

The author of this article has a site where he summarizes his suggestions to slow aging http://agingadvice.org/

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