"If they had asked me, I would have suggested to forget even doing this experiment as the animals were too old to show any effect," said Austad.

“如果他们问我，我可能会建议他们放弃，因为这些动物已经老得不能显示任何效果，”Austad说。

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Steven Austad, a University of Texas gerontologist who has been skeptical about resveratrol’s apparent longevity-enhancing effects, called the results “particularly significant.”

曾对白藜芦醇具有明显延长寿命的作用持怀疑态度的德克萨斯大学老年病学家Steven Austad称这一结果“特别显著”。

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Steven Austad, a gerontologist based at the University of Texas, warns that such therapies are many years away and may never arrive at all.

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Austad referenced a very small study of 10 patients by Valter Longo, a gerontologist at USC, in which patients who cut back their calorie intake before getting chemotherapy had fewer side effects.

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