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Euterpe oleracea increases organism lifespan

raisesInsufficient evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“We found that supplementation of 2% açai pulp initiated at adult age of 3 and 6 days old significantly increased lifespan of female flies by approximately 18% compared to the non-supplemented control in both experiments (and Table 1).”
Quoted verbatim from Açai palm fruit (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) pulp improves survival of flies on a high fat diet.
This finding among the 8 findings on its endpoint

Euterpe oleracea

Organism lifespan

raises

Who
Female Drosophila melanogaster with ubiquitous sod1 RNAi (da-Gal4/sod1IR), fed the standard sugar-yeast diet, supplementation started at adult age 3 or 6 days; fly model, not a human finding
Dose studied
2% (w/v) of the food, for the rest of adult life

Insufficient evidencePMID 20080168 · 2010

02 · The study

Study
animal · not in humans
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

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  • insufficientthis finding

03 · The paper

Experimental gerontology
What else it reported1 finding · 0 compounds · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M701Z4890RSVWS1HKWTQVBPR