Everybody Dance: The Energy You Use Won't Shorten Your Life

... The theory that animals die when they've expended their lifetime allotment of energy may be reaching the end of its own life, but the longitudinal study leaves open a newer form of the theory -- that antioxidants help prolong life by limiting the damage that oxidative stress can cause to cells. The study was presented at the American Physiological Society conference, Comparative Physiology 2006 in Virginia Beach. ...