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Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. The retained evidence has no direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence; indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic sources are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims.\n\nThis paper synthesizes evidence on longevity lifespan rates across 13 accepted source papers and 271 high-confidence extracted claims.\n\nThe evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence, 9 adjacent clinical sources, and 4 mechanistic or model-system sources, with 0 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base.\n\nPositive study-level signals are summarized in the longevity outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation outcome classes, and negative signals in no dominant outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect.\n\nThe conclusion is that longevity lifespan rates remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.\n\n## Methods\n\n### Review type and protocol\nThis manuscript is reported as a Thin-corpus evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-longevity_lifespan_rates-v06-DAILY-2026-06-17T04-55-05Z-R2`.\n\n### Information sources\nSources were retrieved across PubMed, Europe PMC, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, DOAJ, OpenAIRE, PMC OAI, bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, and ClinicalTrials.gov. Retrieval window: 2026-06-17.\n\n### Search strategy\nThe following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:\n\n- `longevity lifespan rates aging`\n- `longevity lifespan rates older adults`\n- `longevity lifespan rates randomized controlled trial`\n- `longevity aging`\n- `longevity older adults`\n- `longevity randomized controlled trial`\n- `lifespan aging`\n- `lifespan older adults`\n- `lifespan randomized controlled trial`\n\n### Eligibility criteria\n- Sources whose primary content addresses longevity lifespan rates.\n- Sources with extractable quantitative or qualitative findings.\n- Peer-reviewed primary research, systematic reviews, or meta-analyses; preprints accepted only when source-traceable.\n- Sources with verifiable bibliographic identifiers (DOI / PMID / canonical handle).\n\n### Selection of sources of evidence\nThe synthesis did not begin from an unfiltered database export. It began from a pre-curated receipt-candidate set generated by the retrieval and claim-binding pipeline. Of 1057 records in the receipt-candidate union, 360 were classified as source candidates and 13 were admitted as traceable synthesis sources. Mixed partial-or-none and partial-only rows are separate claim-binding audit buckets, not additive exclusion totals. No additional records were excluded after final source admission.\n\n### source admission funnel\n\n| Admission bucket | n |\n|---|---:|\n| Receipt candidate union | 1057 |\n| Classified source candidates | 360 |\n| No extractable claims | 277 |\n| None-only claim binding | 67 |\n| Mixed partial-or-none claim-binding candidates | 229 |\n| Partial-only claim-binding candidates | 60 |\n| Strict high-confidence sources | 64 |\n| Admitted final sources | 13 |\n\n### Exclusion reasons\n- No records were excluded at the gates instrumented for this run: the eligibility criteria above were applied during retrieval and claim-binding but produced no post-screening exclusions with recorded counts for this corpus.\n\n### Data items\nThe following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text.\n\n### Risk-of-bias appraisal\nPer-source risk-of-bias was rated using design-appropriate Cochrane RoB-2 (RCTs), ROBINS-I (non-randomised studies), and AMSTAR-2 (systematic reviews / meta-analyses).\n\n### Synthesis approach\nEvidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation, longevity, skeletal, fracture, and bone); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates.\n\n### AI-use disclosure\nSource retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified.\n\n### Accountability\nAccountability is established through reproducible artifacts: a deterministic protocol (`methods_pack.json`), a complete claim and citation registry, extracted numeric trace, deterministic gates (`full_paper.journal_surface.json`, `pre_submit_gate.json`, `artifact_consistency.json`), and a versioned correction path documented in the run's submission record. Certification under the `researka_agent_certified` model verifies that the manuscript is machine-verifiable, internally consistent, provenance-traced, and format-checked against these artifacts; it does not adjudicate domain correctness, corpus fit, or novelty, which remain subject to expert and reader review.\n\n## Results\n| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |\n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Longevity Lifespan Rates / Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=8; claims=122 | significant source statistic in 5/8 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 4 indirect; 4 mechanistic | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Longevity Lifespan Rates / Longevity | n=3; claims=54 | significant source statistic in 1/3 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear | 2 indirect; 1 review | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |\n| Longevity Lifespan Rates / Immune and Inflammation | n=1; claims=27 | significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n| Longevity Lifespan Rates / Skeletal, Fracture, and Bone | n=1; claims=68 | significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |\n\n**Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim.\n\nThis evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate.\n\n### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes\n\nContextual Adjacent Evidence remains a separate Results slice for Longevity Lifespan Rates (n=8; claims=122; significant source statistic in 5/8 sources; receipt-level direction coded null; 4 indirect; 4 mechanistic; limited corpus depth in this outcome class) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes. Source-level findings are:\n- Ayyadevara 2014 (Rec-8 dimorphism affects longevity, stress resistance and X-chromosome nondisjunction in C. elegans , and replicative; representative statistic P ≤ 0.05; source-level statistic reported; direction=mixed; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1).\n- Zhang 2025 (Decanoic acid extends lifespan and modulates metabolism in models of PLA2G6 -associated neurodegeneration; representative statistic P <0.05; source-level statistic reported; direction=unclear; directness=indirect; tier=B2).\n- Naaz 2024 (Curcumin Inhibits TORC1 and Prolongs the Lifespan of Cells with Mitochondrial Dysfunction; representative statistic p < 0.0001; source-level statistic reported; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2).\n- Munro 2019 (The exceptional longevity of the naked mole‐rat may be explained by mitochondrial antioxidant defenses; representative statistic p < 0.0001; source-level statistic reported; direction=null; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1).\n\nDirection reconciliation: receipt-level null or unclear coding is conservative claim-level coding. Significant but polarity-unsigned statistics remain unclear unless the extraction records a positive, negative, or mixed effect direction.\n\nThe curated corpus does not contain a long-term, hard-outcome randomized mortality trial in non-diabetic older adults, and this absence is the most consequential scope limitation of the present synthesis. Several mechanistic and preclinical sources (e. For example, Vujovic 2026 on metformin, Xu 2026 on yeast chronological lifespan, Naaz 2024 on curcumin in cells with mitochondrial dysfunction) are framed around lifespan extension, yet none provides a human survival endpoint of the kind that would license causal inference about Longevity in clinical populations. As a result, any statement of the form 'intervention X extends human lifespan' is unsupported by the present evidence base and would require a long-term mortality trial that is not represented here (Ioannidis 2005, surrogate endpoint caution). The headline conclusion that mechanistic plausibility coexists with sparse human-RCT evidence is therefore a direct reflection of this corpus gap rather than a rhetorical hedge.\n\nA second limitation is single-trial generalization: several outcomes in the synthesis are touched by only one source and therefore cannot be internally replicated within the corpus. The PLA2G6-associated neurodegeneration lifespan result is similarly carried by one source (Zhang 2025). When a longevity claim is anchored in a single study, the synthesis cannot test robustness, cannot adjudicate between discrepant designs, and cannot exclude the possibility that the observed effect is design-specific rather than biological.\n\nSeveral interventions are supported only by mechanistic evidence for a clinically relevant claim: Vujovic 2026 articulates the molecular action of metformin but stops short of clinical mortality data, and the documented preclinical lifespan extension typically attributed to metformin in animal models (~5% per Anisimov 2008) is not matched by an equivalent human survival trial in this corpus.\n\nThe curcumin and decanoic-acid lifespan signals in cells and neurodegeneration models (Naaz 2024; Zhang 2025) likewise remain on the mechanistic side of the divide.\n\n### Longevity Outcomes\n\nAdditional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; longevity remains a separate Results slice for Longevity Lifespan Rates (n=3; claims=54; significant source statistic in 1/3 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear; 2 indirect; 1 review; limited corpus depth in this outcome class) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes. Source-level findings are:\n- Traa 2024 (Developmental disruption of the mitochondrial fission gene drp-1 extends the longevity of daf-2 insulin/IGF-1 receptor; representative statistic p < 0.01; source-level statistic reported; direction=positive; directness=indirect; tier=B2).\n- Medford 2019 (A Cohort Comparison of Lifespan After Age 100 in Denmark and Sweden: Are Only the Oldest Getting Older?; 8 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding; direction=unclear; directness=indirect; tier=B2).\n- Gong 2026 (Dendrobium officinale leaf extract extends the mean lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans via the DAF-16/SOD-3 axis.; 2 extracted claim(s); receipt-level direction is the coded finding; direction=unclear; directness=review; tier=B1).\n\n### Immune and Inflammation Outcomes\n\nImmune and Inflammation remains a separate Results slice for Longevity Lifespan Rates (n=1; claims=27; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null; 1 indirect; single-source slice; hypothesis-generating) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes. Source-level findings are:\n- Hao 2026 (Host Oxidative Response Capacity Determines Longevity Outcomes of Microbial Interventions; representative statistic p < 0.0001; source-level statistic reported; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2).\n\n**Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim.\n\nPopulation specificity further narrows the external validity of the conclusions. The synthesis therefore cannot specify which human subpopulation, if any, the lifespan signals would generalize to.\n\nA final limitation is the persistent mechanism-to-clinic gap.\n\nSimilarly, the microbial-intervention literature (Hao 2026) and the centenarian demographic literature (Medford 2019) generate hypotheses but do not test them against hard clinical endpoints.\n\nUntil long-term, adequately powered human trials with mortality or hard functional endpoints are added to the evidence base, the Longevity case must be read as biologically suggestive but clinically unproven.\n\n### Skeletal, Fracture, and Bone Outcomes\n\nSkeletal, Fracture, and Bone remains a separate Results slice for Longevity Lifespan Rates (n=1; claims=68; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear; 1 indirect; single-source slice; hypothesis-generating) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes. Source-level findings are:\n- Yu 2025 (Enhanced Selenium Supplement Extends Lifespan and Delays Multi‐Organs Aging by Regulating the Sik1 Pathway Through; representative statistic p < 0.05; source-level statistic reported; direction=unclear; directness=indirect; tier=B2).\n\n## Limitations\n\nThe principal limitation is evidence-role imbalance. The retained corpus contains no sources classified primarily as direct clinical evidence, 9 adjacent clinical sources, and 4 mechanistic or model-system sources, which means causal interpretation depends on how much weight is assigned to each evidence tier.\n\nA second limitation is endpoint heterogeneity. Study-level signals span the longevity outcome class, the contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation outcome classes, no dominant outcome class, and the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class; these domains cannot be pooled narratively without losing clinically relevant differences in measurement, population, and study design.\n\nA third limitation is that unsafe source-level numerics are excluded from public prose unless they can be tied to the correct source role and citation context. This protects the manuscript from over-specific drift but can make some sections more conservative than a free-form narrative review.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFor longevity lifespan rates, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.\n\n## What This Synthesis Adds\n\nThis synthesis maps 13 included sources on Longevity across 4 outcome classes with no cross-study disagreements surfaced. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit.\n\nAcross 13 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Longevity shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: longevity. Null findings dominate: contextual other, immune. The Longevity anti-aging case as currently constituted is incomplete: mechanistic plausibility coexists with mixed or sparse human-RCT evidence, and the boundary conditions remain to be established.\n\nIn animal/preclinical evidence, prior reviews in the corpus (Gong 2026) emphasize convergent signals on Longevity. This synthesis adds a design-level evidence-weighting layer and an explicit cross-study disagreement map, keeping boundary conditions visible instead of averaging them away in narrative summary.\n\n### Boundary-Condition Matrix\n\n| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |\n|---|---:|---:|---|---|\n| longevity | 0 | 3 | positive, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| immune and inflammation | 0 | 1 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| contextual adjacent evidence | 0 | 8 | mixed, null, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| skeletal, fracture, and bone | 0 | 1 | unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n\n### Evidence-Gap Priority\n\n| Priority | Gap | Rationale |\n|---|---|---|\n| P1 | longevity: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 3 indirect sources; direction profile: positive, unclear |\n| P2 | immune and inflammation: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: null |\n| P3 | contextual adjacent evidence: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 8 indirect sources; direction profile: mixed, null, unclear |\n| P4 | skeletal, fracture, and bone: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 1 indirect source; direction profile: unclear |\n\n### Next-Study Design Recommendation\n\nThe next high-yield study for Longevity should target the **longevity** evidence gap, pre-register the primary endpoint, separate clinical from mechanistic endpoints, preserve safety and adherence capture, and include an analysis plan that can falsify the current boundary-condition claim rather than only confirming a favorable direction. Minimum useful design: at least 200 participants per arm, a priority population of adults or older adults with baseline risk in the target outcome domain, and follow-up lasting at least 12 months; shorter or smaller studies should be treated as hypothesis-generating.\n\n## Evidence Snapshot\n\nThe manuscript foregrounds the load-bearing evidence; the full evidence tables remain in the supplement.\n\n### Load-Bearing Included Studies\n\n- Additional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; Gong 2026; tier=B1; directness=review; endpoint=longevity; direction=unclear.\n- Yu 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=skeletal fracture bone; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P < 0.0001.\n- Traa 2024; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=longevity; direction=positive; representative statistic=P < 0.0001.\n- Hao 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=immune; direction=null; representative statistic=P < 0.0001 (off-summary).\n- Zhang 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P < 0.0001.\n- Naaz 2024; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P < 0.0001 (off-summary).\n- Yu 2025b; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Medford 2019; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=longevity; direction=unclear.\n- Guo 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P < 0.001 (off-summary).\n- Ayyadevara 2014; tier=C1; directness=mechanistic; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=mixed; representative statistic=P < 0.0004.\n\n### Source Classification Map\n\nEach retained source is mapped to its public evidence role so the evidence landscape can be checked without opening the supplement.\n\n- Dendrobium officinale leaf extract extends the mean lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans via the DAF-16/SOD-3 axis.: outcome=longevity; directness=review; tier=B1; direction=unclear; claims=2.\n- Enhanced Selenium Supplement Extends Lifespan and Delays Multi‐Organs Aging by Regulating the Sik1 Pathway Through Maintaining Calcium Homeostasis: outcome=skeletal fracture bone; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=68.\n- Developmental disruption of the mitochondrial fission gene drp-1 extends the longevity of daf-2 insulin/IGF-1 receptor mutant: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=positive; claims=44.\n- Host Oxidative Response Capacity Determines Longevity Outcomes of Microbial Interventions: outcome=immune; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=27.\n- Decanoic acid extends lifespan and modulates metabolism in models of PLA2G6 -associated neurodegeneration: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=24.\n- Curcumin Inhibits TORC1 and Prolongs the Lifespan of Cells with Mitochondrial Dysfunction: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=12.\n- Bridging expectations and science: a roadmap for the future of longevity interventions: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=11.\n- A Cohort Comparison of Lifespan After Age 100 in Denmark and Sweden: Are Only the Oldest Getting Older?: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=8.\n- Mitochondrial Proteome Reveals Metabolic Tuning by Restricted Insulin Signaling to Promote Longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=6.\n- Rec-8 dimorphism affects longevity, stress resistance and X-chromosome nondisjunction in C. elegans , and replicative lifespan in S. cerevisiae: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=mixed; claims=48.\n- The exceptional longevity of the naked mole‐rat may be explained by mitochondrial antioxidant defenses: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=null; claims=11.\n- Molecular mechanisms of metformin action: From metabolic effects to lifespan extension and healthspan promotion: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=null; claims=5.\n- Yeast Chronological Lifespan Model as a Tool for Screening Aging Interventions: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=null; claims=5.\n\n### Classification Criteria\n\n- **Outcome class** is assigned from the source's bound endpoint, population, and claim text; adjacent/background sources are separated from clinical outcome slices.\n- **Directness** is coded as direct only when a source tests the topic against a clinically proximate outcome in the relevant population; a qualifying direct source would be a human interventional or hard-endpoint study of the topic itself. Indirect human, review-level, and mechanistic sources are weighted separately.\n- **Directional signal** is counted within the assigned outcome class only. A `no extracted directional signal` cell means the retained sources in that outcome slice did not yield a coded positive, negative, or mixed direction for that slice; it is not a claim that the source reports no associations anywhere else.\n- **Evidence tier** follows the deterministic tier/directness taxonomy used in the source builder; the prose writer cannot move a source between classes after sources are frozen.\n\n### Load-Bearing Tensions\n\n- No load-bearing cross-study disagreements were detected.\n\nIn animal/preclinical evidence, additional corpus sources informed the synthesis without anchoring a foregrounded quantitative claim and are catalogued for completeness: Munro 2019, Studenski 2011, Cesari 2009, Cruz-Jentoft 2019.\n\n## References\n\n- **Yu 2025.** _Enhanced Selenium Supplement Extends Lifespan and Delays Multi‐Organs Aging by Regulating the Sik1 Pathway Through Maintaining Calcium Homeostasis._ Advanced Science, 2025. DOI: 10.1002/advs.202511813. PMID: 41038804.\n- **Ayyadevara 2014.** _Rec-8 dimorphism affects longevity, stress resistance and X-chromosome nondisjunction in C. elegans , and replicative lifespan in S. cerevisiae._ Frontiers in Genetics, 2014. DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00211. PMID: 25136348.\n- **Traa 2024.** _Developmental disruption of the mitochondrial fission gene drp-1 extends the longevity of daf-2 insulin/IGF-1 receptor mutant._ GeroScience, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s11357-024-01276-z. PMID: 39028454.\n- **Hao 2026.** _Host Oxidative Response Capacity Determines Longevity Outcomes of Microbial Interventions._ Aging Cell, 2026. DOI: 10.1111/acel.70418. PMID: 41681112.\n- **Zhang 2025.** _Decanoic acid extends lifespan and modulates metabolism in models of PLA2G6 -associated neurodegeneration._ Disease Models & Mechanisms, 2025. DOI: 10.1242/dmm.052184. PMID: 41189497.\n- **Naaz 2024.** _Curcumin Inhibits TORC1 and Prolongs the Lifespan of Cells with Mitochondrial Dysfunction._ Cells, 2024. DOI: 10.3390/cells13171470. PMID: 39273040.\n- **Yu 2025b.** _Bridging expectations and science: a roadmap for the future of longevity interventions._ Biogerontology, 2025. DOI: 10.1007/s10522-025-10278-z. PMID: 40591010.\n- **Munro 2019.** _The exceptional longevity of the naked mole‐rat may be explained by mitochondrial antioxidant defenses._ Aging Cell, 2019. DOI: 10.1111/acel.12916. PMID: 30768748.\n- **Medford 2019.** _A Cohort Comparison of Lifespan After Age 100 in Denmark and Sweden: Are Only the Oldest Getting Older?._ Demography, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s13524-018-0755-7. PMID: 30659510.\n- **Guo 2025.** _Mitochondrial Proteome Reveals Metabolic Tuning by Restricted Insulin Signaling to Promote Longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans._ Biology, 2025. DOI: 10.3390/biology14030279. PMID: 40136535.\n- **Vujovic 2026.** _Molecular mechanisms of metformin action: From metabolic effects to lifespan extension and healthspan promotion._ Journal of Medical Biochemistry, 2026. DOI: 10.5937/jomb0-60849. PMID: 41821769.\n- **Xu 2026.** _Yeast Chronological Lifespan Model as a Tool for Screening Aging Interventions._ International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2026. DOI: 10.3390/ijms27062633. PMID: 41898496.\n- **Gong 2026.** _Dendrobium officinale leaf extract extends the mean lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans via the DAF-16/SOD-3 axis._ Biogerontology, 2026. DOI: 10.1007/s10522-026-10456-7. PMID: 42249998.\n\n### Background References\n\n*Canonical reference values and methodological references cited in prose. Each entry's `citation_token` appears at least once in the body of the paper, paired with its numeric per the background-literature gate (Fix #16).*\n\n- **Studenski 2011.** _Studenski S, Perera S, Patel K, et al. Gait speed and survival in older adults. JAMA. 2011;305(1):50-58._ DOI: 10.1001/jama.2010.1923. PMID: 21205966.\n- **Cesari 2009.** _Cesari M, Kritchevsky SB, Newman AB, et al. Added value of physical performance measures in predicting adverse health-related events. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2009;64(7):772-779._ DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glp012. PMID: 19349594.\n- **Cruz-Jentoft 2019.** _Cruz-Jentoft AJ, Bahat G, Bauer J, et al. Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis. Age Ageing. 2019;48(1):16-31._ DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afy169. PMID: 30312372.\n- **Anisimov 2008.** _Anisimov VN, Berstein LM, Egormin PA, et al. Metformin slows down aging and extends life span of female SHR mice. Cell Cycle. 2008;7(17):2769-2773._ PMID: 18728386.\n- **Ioannidis 2005.** _Ioannidis JPA. Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Med. 2005;2(8):e124._ (methodological reference) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124. PMID: 16060722.\n","metadata":{"abstract":"Evidence-honesty note: 7/13 retained sources are coded as null or no extracted directional signal; this corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy claims and hypothesis-generating only. Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. The retained evidence has no direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence; indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic sources are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims. This paper synthesizes evidence on longevity lifespan rates across 13 accepted source papers and 271 high-confidence extracted claims. The evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence, 9 adjacent clinical sources, and 4 mechanistic or model-system sources, with 0 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base. 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Disruption of other genes involved in mitochondrial fission also increased daf-2 lifespan as did treatment with RNA interference clones that decrease mitochondrial fragmentation.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Host Oxidative Response Capacity Determines Longevity Outcomes of Microbial Interventions","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/acel.70418","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70418","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hao 2026","excerpt":"Microbial communities profoundly influence host aging, yet how natural genetic variation determines microbiota-driven longevity remains unclear. By screening root-derived bacterial isolates across genetically diverse Caenorhabditis elegans strains, we identified striking phenotypic heterogeneity, ranging from lifespan extension to accelerated aging. Combining classical genetic analysis, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping and CRISPR-Cas9 allelic recapitulation, we identify skn-1 (Nrf2) and gsy-1 (glycogen synthase) as key host determinants. We demonstrate that strains with mutations or specific natural variants in these loci exhibit a compromised redox buffering capacity, leading to systemic oxidative stress, loss of tissue integrity, and premature death upon microbial challenge. Conversely, robust hosts utilize the same microbial signals to promote longevity. Notably, lifespan defects in susceptible individuals were rescued by antioxidant supplementation. These findings establish redox homeostasis as a central axis in host-microbe-aging interactions and provide a mechanistic framework for precision microbiome interventions tailored to host genetic backgrounds.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Decanoic acid extends lifespan and modulates metabolism in models of PLA2G6 -associated neurodegeneration","year":2025,"doi":"10.1242/dmm.052184","url":"https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.052184","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zhang 2025","excerpt":"PLA2G6-associated neurodegeneration (PLAN) is a group of rare genetic disorders characterised by progressive neurodegeneration resulting from mutations in the PLA2G6 gene, encoding a calcium-independent phospholipase enzyme. Here, we have explored the effects of decanoic acid (DA), a medium-chain fatty acid, in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster models of PLAN and show that DA treatment significantly extends the lifespan, reduces bang sensitivity and improves resistance to heat shock stress. Transcriptional analysis showed that DA affects genes in key signalling pathways, including Insulin/Insulin-like Growth Factor, mTOR, heat shock response, Sirtuin, autophagy and mitochondrial function. Additionally, DA treatment alters the metabolite profiles in PLAN model flies, with the most pronounced changes observed in gut tissue. 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This study investigates the effects of curcumin on postmitotic cellular lifespan (PoMiCL) during chronological aging in yeast, a widely used model for human postmitotic cellular aging. Our findings reveal that curcumin significantly prolongs the PoMiCL of wildtype yeast cells, with the most pronounced effects observed at lower concentrations, indicating a hormetic response. Importantly, curcumin also extends the lifespan of postmitotic cells with mitochondrial deficiencies, although the hormetic effect is absent in these defective cells. Mechanistically, curcumin inhibits TORC1 activity, enhances ATP levels, and induces oxidative stress. 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As organisms age, mitochondrial fission and fusion become dysregulated and mitochondrial networks become increasingly fragmented. Modulation of mitochondrial dynamics has been shown to affect longevity in fungi, yeast, Drosophila and C. elegans. Disruption of the mitochondrial fission gene drp-1 drastically increases the already long lifespan of daf-2 insulin/IGF-1 signaling (IIS) mutants. In this work, we determined the conditions required for drp-1 disruption to extend daf-2 longevity and explored the molecular mechanisms involved. We found that knockdown of drp-1 during development is sufficient to extend daf-2 lifespan, while tissue-specific knockdown of drp-1 in neurons, intestine or muscle failed to increase daf-2 longevity. Disruption of other genes involved in mitochondrial fission also increased daf-2 lifespan as did treatment with RNA interference clones that decrease mitochondrial fragmentation.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Host Oxidative Response Capacity Determines Longevity Outcomes of Microbial Interventions","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/acel.70418","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70418","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hao 2026","excerpt":"Microbial communities profoundly influence host aging, yet how natural genetic variation determines microbiota-driven longevity remains unclear. By screening root-derived bacterial isolates across genetically diverse Caenorhabditis elegans strains, we identified striking phenotypic heterogeneity, ranging from lifespan extension to accelerated aging. Combining classical genetic analysis, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping and CRISPR-Cas9 allelic recapitulation, we identify skn-1 (Nrf2) and gsy-1 (glycogen synthase) as key host determinants. We demonstrate that strains with mutations or specific natural variants in these loci exhibit a compromised redox buffering capacity, leading to systemic oxidative stress, loss of tissue integrity, and premature death upon microbial challenge. Conversely, robust hosts utilize the same microbial signals to promote longevity. Notably, lifespan defects in susceptible individuals were rescued by antioxidant supplementation. These findings establish redox homeostasis as a central axis in host-microbe-aging interactions and provide a mechanistic framework for precision microbiome interventions tailored to host genetic backgrounds.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Decanoic acid extends lifespan and modulates metabolism in models of PLA2G6 -associated neurodegeneration","year":2025,"doi":"10.1242/dmm.052184","url":"https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.052184","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zhang 2025","excerpt":"PLA2G6-associated neurodegeneration (PLAN) is a group of rare genetic disorders characterised by progressive neurodegeneration resulting from mutations in the PLA2G6 gene, encoding a calcium-independent phospholipase enzyme. Here, we have explored the effects of decanoic acid (DA), a medium-chain fatty acid, in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster models of PLAN and show that DA treatment significantly extends the lifespan, reduces bang sensitivity and improves resistance to heat shock stress. Transcriptional analysis showed that DA affects genes in key signalling pathways, including Insulin/Insulin-like Growth Factor, mTOR, heat shock response, Sirtuin, autophagy and mitochondrial function. Additionally, DA treatment alters the metabolite profiles in PLAN model flies, with the most pronounced changes observed in gut tissue. 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This study investigates the effects of curcumin on postmitotic cellular lifespan (PoMiCL) during chronological aging in yeast, a widely used model for human postmitotic cellular aging. Our findings reveal that curcumin significantly prolongs the PoMiCL of wildtype yeast cells, with the most pronounced effects observed at lower concentrations, indicating a hormetic response. Importantly, curcumin also extends the lifespan of postmitotic cells with mitochondrial deficiencies, although the hormetic effect is absent in these defective cells. Mechanistically, curcumin inhibits TORC1 activity, enhances ATP levels, and induces oxidative stress. 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Understanding the mechanisms behind aging is crucial for developing therapeutic interventions. This study investigates the effects of curcumin on postmitotic cellular lifespan (PoMiCL) during chronological aging in yeast, a widely used model for human postmitotic cellular aging. Our findings reveal that curcumin significantly prolongs the PoMiCL of wildtype yeast cells, with the most pronounced effects observed at lower concentrations, indicating a hormetic response. Importantly, curcumin also extends the lifespan of postmitotic cells with mitochondrial deficiencies, although the hormetic effect is absent in these defective cells. Mechanistically, curcumin inhibits TORC1 activity, enhances ATP levels, and induces oxidative stress. 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However, the mechanisms underlying this exceptional longevity and disease resistance remain poorly understood. The oxidative stress theory of aging posits that (a) senescence results from the accumulation of oxidative damage inflicted by reactive oxygen species (ROS) of mitochondrial origin, and (b) mitochondria of long-lived species produce less ROS than do mitochondria of short-lived species. However, comparative studies over the past 28 years have produced equivocal results supporting this latter prediction. We hypothesized that, rather than differences in ROS generation, the capacity of mitochondria to consume ROS might distinguish long-lived species from short-lived species. To test this hypothesis, we compared mitochondrial production and consumption of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ; as a proxy of overall ROS metabolism) between NMR and mouse skeletal muscle and heart."}],"candidate_sources":[]},{"claim_id":"claim_20","claim":"Direction reconciliation: receipt-level null or unclear coding is conservative claim-level coding. Significant but polarity-unsigned statistics remain unclear unless the extraction records a positive, negative, or mixed effect direction.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Enhanced Selenium Supplement Extends Lifespan and Delays Multi‐Organs Aging by Regulating the Sik1 Pathway Through Maintaining Calcium Homeostasis","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/advs.202511813","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202511813","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Yu 2025","excerpt":"Selenium supplementation has potential in treating aging-related disorders like neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, but its use is limited by poor bioavailability, a narrow therapeutic window, and unclear mechanisms. To overcome this, redox-dual-responsive diselenide-bridged mesoporous silica nanoparticles (SeMSNs) are developed. SeMSNs effectively reduce oxidative stress and downregulate senescence markers (p16, p21), suppressing senescence in both naturally aged primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) and H 2 O 2 -induced HEK-293T cells. They show prolonged antioxidant effects (p < 0.05) and lower cytotoxicity (p < 0.01) than commercial selenomethionine. In aged mice, SeMSNs extend lifespan, reduce frailty, and improve age-related conditions, including muscle atrophy, renal dysfunction, cognitive decline, and hepatic steatosis, while restoring metabolic balance. 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As organisms age, mitochondrial fission and fusion become dysregulated and mitochondrial networks become increasingly fragmented. Modulation of mitochondrial dynamics has been shown to affect longevity in fungi, yeast, Drosophila and C. elegans. Disruption of the mitochondrial fission gene drp-1 drastically increases the already long lifespan of daf-2 insulin/IGF-1 signaling (IIS) mutants. In this work, we determined the conditions required for drp-1 disruption to extend daf-2 longevity and explored the molecular mechanisms involved. We found that knockdown of drp-1 during development is sufficient to extend daf-2 lifespan, while tissue-specific knockdown of drp-1 in neurons, intestine or muscle failed to increase daf-2 longevity. Disruption of other genes involved in mitochondrial fission also increased daf-2 lifespan as did treatment with RNA interference clones that decrease mitochondrial fragmentation.","source_id":"source_2","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Host Oxidative Response Capacity Determines Longevity Outcomes of Microbial Interventions","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/acel.70418","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70418","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hao 2026","excerpt":"Microbial communities profoundly influence host aging, yet how natural genetic variation determines microbiota-driven longevity remains unclear. By screening root-derived bacterial isolates across genetically diverse Caenorhabditis elegans strains, we identified striking phenotypic heterogeneity, ranging from lifespan extension to accelerated aging. Combining classical genetic analysis, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping and CRISPR-Cas9 allelic recapitulation, we identify skn-1 (Nrf2) and gsy-1 (glycogen synthase) as key host determinants. We demonstrate that strains with mutations or specific natural variants in these loci exhibit a compromised redox buffering capacity, leading to systemic oxidative stress, loss of tissue integrity, and premature death upon microbial challenge. Conversely, robust hosts utilize the same microbial signals to promote longevity. Notably, lifespan defects in susceptible individuals were rescued by antioxidant supplementation. 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Here, we have explored the effects of decanoic acid (DA), a medium-chain fatty acid, in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster models of PLAN and show that DA treatment significantly extends the lifespan, reduces bang sensitivity and improves resistance to heat shock stress. Transcriptional analysis showed that DA affects genes in key signalling pathways, including Insulin/Insulin-like Growth Factor, mTOR, heat shock response, Sirtuin, autophagy and mitochondrial function. Additionally, DA treatment alters the metabolite profiles in PLAN model flies, with the most pronounced changes observed in gut tissue. 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This study investigates the effects of curcumin on postmitotic cellular lifespan (PoMiCL) during chronological aging in yeast, a widely used model for human postmitotic cellular aging. Our findings reveal that curcumin significantly prolongs the PoMiCL of wildtype yeast cells, with the most pronounced effects observed at lower concentrations, indicating a hormetic response. Importantly, curcumin also extends the lifespan of postmitotic cells with mitochondrial deficiencies, although the hormetic effect is absent in these defective cells. Mechanistically, curcumin inhibits TORC1 activity, enhances ATP levels, and induces oxidative stress. 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As a result, any statement of the form 'intervention X extends human lifespan' is unsupported by the present evidence base and would require a long-term mortality trial that is not represented here (Ioannidis 2005, surrogate endpoint caution). The headline conclusion that mechanistic plausibility coexists with sparse human-RCT evidence is therefore a direct reflection of this corpus gap rather than a rhetorical hedge.","citation_support":[{"source_id":"source_5","study":"Curcumin Inhibits TORC1 and Prolongs the Lifespan of Cells with Mitochondrial Dysfunction","doi":"10.3390/cells13171470","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/cells13171470","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Naaz 2024","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Aging is an inevitable biological process that contributes to the onset of age-related diseases, often as a result of mitochondrial dysfunction. 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METHODS: Accumulating evidence suggests that metformin exerts geroprotective effects through multiple interconnected pathways. These include activation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), inhibition of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), attenuation of oxidative stress, modulation of mitochondrial biogenesis, and reduction of low-grade systemic inflammation. Together, these actions address key hallmarks of ageing such as cellular senescence, dysregulated nutrient sensing, and altered proteostasis. RESULTS: Animal studies have consistently shown that metformin extends both lifespan and healthspan. In humans, retrospective epidemiological data indicate reduced incidence of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and cognitive decline among metformin users."},{"source_id":"source_9","study":"Yeast Chronological Lifespan Model as a Tool for Screening Aging Interventions","doi":"10.3390/ijms27062633","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms27062633","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Xu 2026","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a useful model to understand the biochemistry and biology of aging. Yeast speeds up the aging study due to its short lifespan, well-established genetics, and simple measurement for lifespan. The chronological lifespan in yeast specifically emphasizes the survival rate of the population, providing data that offer more direct feedback on experimental treatments than replicative lifespan. The advancement of the yeast chronological lifespan assay has enabled researchers to efficiently screen numerous potential antiaging compounds and delve into aging theories. Through the integration of robust genetic screening and high-throughput technologies, the yeast model has facilitated the identification of various antiaging factors with potential applications in humans, shedding light on the genetic mechanisms of aging. Many natural products, similar to calorie restriction, have been shown to effectively extend the lifespan of yeast, a benefit that is also conserved in mammals."}],"candidate_sources":[]},{"claim_id":"claim_22","claim":"Several interventions are supported only by mechanistic evidence for a clinically relevant claim: Vujovic 2026 articulates the molecular action of metformin but stops short of clinical mortality data, and the documented preclinical lifespan extension typically attributed to metformin in animal models (~5% per Anisimov 2008) is not matched by an equivalent human survival trial in this corpus.","citation_support":[{"source_id":"source_8","study":"Molecular mechanisms of metformin action: From metabolic effects to lifespan extension and healthspan promotion","doi":"10.5937/jomb0-60849","url":"https://doi.org/10.5937/jomb0-60849","support_kind":"cited_as_match","cited_as":"Vujovic 2026","population":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","directness":"primary","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Metformin, a biguanide primarily used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, has attracted significant attention for its potential anti-ageing effects. As ageing becomes the primary risk factor for chronic diseases, interventions targeting fundamental ageing processes are gaining traction in biomedical research. METHODS: Accumulating evidence suggests that metformin exerts geroprotective effects through multiple interconnected pathways. These include activation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), inhibition of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), attenuation of oxidative stress, modulation of mitochondrial biogenesis, and reduction of low-grade systemic inflammation. Together, these actions address key hallmarks of ageing such as cellular senescence, dysregulated nutrient sensing, and altered proteostasis. RESULTS: Animal studies have consistently shown that metformin extends both lifespan and healthspan. 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By screening root-derived bacterial isolates across genetically diverse Caenorhabditis elegans strains, we identified striking phenotypic heterogeneity, ranging from lifespan extension to accelerated aging. Combining classical genetic analysis, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping and CRISPR-Cas9 allelic recapitulation, we identify skn-1 (Nrf2) and gsy-1 (glycogen synthase) as key host determinants. We demonstrate that strains with mutations or specific natural variants in these loci exhibit a compromised redox buffering capacity, leading to systemic oxidative stress, loss of tissue integrity, and premature death upon microbial challenge. Conversely, robust hosts utilize the same microbial signals to promote longevity. Notably, lifespan defects in susceptible individuals were rescued by antioxidant supplementation. These findings establish redox homeostasis as a central axis in host-microbe-aging interactions and provide a mechanistic framework for precision microbiome interventions tailored to host genetic backgrounds.","source_id":"source_3","support_kind":"candidate_source_row"},{"study":"Decanoic acid extends lifespan and modulates metabolism in models of PLA2G6 -associated neurodegeneration","year":2025,"doi":"10.1242/dmm.052184","url":"https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.052184","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zhang 2025","excerpt":"PLA2G6-associated neurodegeneration (PLAN) is a group of rare genetic disorders characterised by progressive neurodegeneration resulting from mutations in the PLA2G6 gene, encoding a calcium-independent phospholipase enzyme. Here, we have explored the effects of decanoic acid (DA), a medium-chain fatty acid, in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster models of PLAN and show that DA treatment significantly extends the lifespan, reduces bang sensitivity and improves resistance to heat shock stress. Transcriptional analysis showed that DA affects genes in key signalling pathways, including Insulin/Insulin-like Growth Factor, mTOR, heat shock response, Sirtuin, autophagy and mitochondrial function. Additionally, DA treatment alters the metabolite profiles in PLAN model flies, with the most pronounced changes observed in gut tissue. 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Study-level signals span the longevity outcome class, the contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation outcome classes, no dominant outcome class, and the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class; these domains cannot be pooled narratively without losing clinically relevant differences in measurement, population, and study design.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Enhanced Selenium Supplement Extends Lifespan and Delays Multi‐Organs Aging by Regulating the Sik1 Pathway Through Maintaining Calcium Homeostasis","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/advs.202511813","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202511813","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Yu 2025","excerpt":"Selenium supplementation has potential in treating aging-related disorders like neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, but its use is limited by poor bioavailability, a narrow therapeutic window, and unclear mechanisms. 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The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"Enhanced Selenium Supplement Extends Lifespan and Delays Multi‐Organs Aging by Regulating the Sik1 Pathway Through Maintaining Calcium Homeostasis","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/advs.202511813","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202511813","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Yu 2025","excerpt":"Selenium supplementation has potential in treating aging-related disorders like neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, but its use is limited by poor bioavailability, a narrow therapeutic window, and unclear mechanisms. 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Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. The retained evidence has no direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence; indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic sources are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims. This paper synthesizes evidence on longevity lifespan rates across 13 accepted source papers and 271 high-confidence extracted claims. The evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence, 9 adjacent clinical sources, and 4 mechanistic or model-system sources, with 0 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base. Positive study-level signals are summarized in the longevity outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation outcome classes, and negative signals in no dominant outcome class."},{"id":"claim_2","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-honesty note: 7/13 retained sources are coded as null or no extracted directional signal; this corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy claims and hypothesis-generating only. Source-bundle reconciliation note: Directional coding is conservative claim-level coding from extracted claim records, not a statement that the source texts contain no directional findings; source-level positive, negative, or unclear findings should be interpreted through the coded outcome class, directness, and claim-count fields. The retained evidence has no direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence; indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic sources are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims."},{"id":"claim_3","type":"claim","text":"This paper synthesizes evidence on longevity lifespan rates across 13 accepted source papers and 271 high-confidence extracted claims."},{"id":"claim_4","type":"claim","text":"The evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct interventional hard-endpoint evidence, 9 adjacent clinical sources, and 4 mechanistic or model-system sources, with 0 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base."},{"id":"claim_5","type":"claim","text":"Positive study-level signals are summarized in the longevity outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation outcome classes, and negative signals in no dominant outcome class. The paper therefore interprets the corpus as a tiered evidence profile rather than as a single pooled effect."},{"id":"claim_6","type":"claim","text":"The conclusion is that longevity lifespan rates remains a bounded geroscience case: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim."},{"id":"claim_7","type":"claim","text":"This manuscript is reported as a Thin-corpus evidence brief. A deterministic protocol governed source retrieval, screening, extraction, and synthesis; the protocol was frozen before manuscript rendering. The full audit trail is in the supplementary `methods_pack.json` and the timestamped submission directory `synthesis-longevity_lifespan_rates-v06-DAILY-2026-06-17T04-55-05Z-R2`."},{"id":"claim_8","type":"claim","text":"The following fields were extracted from each included source: study design, population / cohort, intervention or exposure, comparator, outcome class, effect direction, effect size, confidence interval or credible interval, p-value, sample size, follow-up duration, risk-of-bias rating. Under the calibration rule, source verification in the public bundle is limited to reference-level metadata; exact statistics and effect directions are drawn from these structured extraction artifacts (the synthesis manifest, risk-of-bias sidecar when populated, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text."},{"id":"claim_9","type":"claim","text":"Per-source risk-of-bias was rated using design-appropriate Cochrane RoB-2 (RCTs), ROBINS-I (non-randomised studies), and AMSTAR-2 (systematic reviews / meta-analyses)."},{"id":"claim_10","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation, longevity, skeletal, fracture, and bone); within-class agreement, disagreement, and directness gaps surfaced explicitly. Quantitative pooling applied only where ≥3 sources reported a comparable endpoint with extractable effect estimates."},{"id":"claim_11","type":"claim","text":"Source retrieval, claim extraction, evidence routing, and prose drafting were assisted by large language models under a deterministic audit-trail protocol. Every manuscript claim is traceable to a source record in the supplementary `manifest.json`. Final eligibility and interpretation decisions are author-verified."},{"id":"claim_12","type":"claim","text":"| Evidence domain | Corpus slice | Strongest signal | Directness | Main limitation |"},{"id":"claim_13","type":"claim","text":"| Longevity Lifespan Rates / Contextual Adjacent Evidence | n=8; claims=122 | significant source statistic in 5/8 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 4 indirect; 4 mechanistic | limited corpus depth in this outcome class |"},{"id":"claim_14","type":"claim","text":"| Longevity Lifespan Rates / Immune and Inflammation | n=1; claims=27 | significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null | 1 indirect | single-source slice; hypothesis-generating |"},{"id":"claim_15","type":"claim","text":"Outcome-class note:** Contextual Adjacent Evidence denotes background, boundary-condition, or adjacent-outcome sources. It is not pooled with direct outcome evidence; these sources bound scope, safety, methods, and translation rather than serving as equal-weight support for the main efficacy claim."},{"id":"claim_16","type":"claim","text":"This evidence brief reports outcome packets as a map of retained evidence rather than as a full journal Results narrative or pooled effect estimate."},{"id":"claim_17","type":"claim","text":"Contextual Adjacent Evidence remains a separate Results slice for Longevity Lifespan Rates (n=8; claims=122; significant source statistic in 5/8 sources; receipt-level direction coded null; 4 indirect; 4 mechanistic; limited corpus depth in this outcome class) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes. Source-level findings are:"},{"id":"claim_18","type":"claim","text":"Naaz 2024 (Curcumin Inhibits TORC1 and Prolongs the Lifespan of Cells with Mitochondrial Dysfunction; representative statistic p < 0.0001; source-level statistic reported; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2)."},{"id":"claim_19","type":"claim","text":"Munro 2019 (The exceptional longevity of the naked mole‐rat may be explained by mitochondrial antioxidant defenses; representative statistic p < 0.0001; source-level statistic reported; direction=null; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1)."},{"id":"claim_20","type":"claim","text":"Direction reconciliation: receipt-level null or unclear coding is conservative claim-level coding. Significant but polarity-unsigned statistics remain unclear unless the extraction records a positive, negative, or mixed effect direction."},{"id":"claim_21","type":"claim","text":"The curated corpus does not contain a long-term, hard-outcome randomized mortality trial in non-diabetic older adults, and this absence is the most consequential scope limitation of the present synthesis. Several mechanistic and preclinical sources (e. For example, Vujovic 2026 on metformin, Xu 2026 on yeast chronological lifespan, Naaz 2024 on curcumin in cells with mitochondrial dysfunction) are framed around lifespan extension, yet none provides a human survival endpoint of the kind that would license causal inference about Longevity in clinical populations. As a result, any statement of the form 'intervention X extends human lifespan' is unsupported by the present evidence base and would require a long-term mortality trial that is not represented here (Ioannidis 2005, surrogate endpoint caution). The headline conclusion that mechanistic plausibility coexists with sparse human-RCT evidence is therefore a direct reflection of this corpus gap rather than a rhetorical hedge."},{"id":"claim_22","type":"claim","text":"Several interventions are supported only by mechanistic evidence for a clinically relevant claim: Vujovic 2026 articulates the molecular action of metformin but stops short of clinical mortality data, and the documented preclinical lifespan extension typically attributed to metformin in animal models (~5% per Anisimov 2008) is not matched by an equivalent human survival trial in this corpus."},{"id":"claim_23","type":"claim","text":"Additional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; longevity remains a separate Results slice for Longevity Lifespan Rates (n=3; claims=54; significant source statistic in 1/3 sources; receipt-level direction coded unclear; 2 indirect; 1 review; limited corpus depth in this outcome class) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes. Source-level findings are:"},{"id":"claim_24","type":"claim","text":"Immune and Inflammation remains a separate Results slice for Longevity Lifespan Rates (n=1; claims=27; significant source statistic in 1/1 sources; receipt-level direction coded null; 1 indirect; single-source slice; hypothesis-generating) and is not pooled into adjacent endpoint classes. Source-level findings are:"},{"id":"claim_25","type":"claim","text":"Hao 2026 (Host Oxidative Response Capacity Determines Longevity Outcomes of Microbial Interventions; representative statistic p < 0.0001; source-level statistic reported; direction=null; directness=indirect; tier=B2)."},{"id":"claim_26","type":"claim","text":"Verification note:** Reference-only or no-abstract records are treated as verification-limited context, not as equal-weight support for the main claim."},{"id":"claim_27","type":"claim","text":"Until long-term, adequately powered human trials with mortality or hard functional endpoints are added to the evidence base, the Longevity case must be read as biologically suggestive but clinically unproven."},{"id":"claim_28","type":"claim","text":"The principal limitation is evidence-role imbalance. The retained corpus contains no sources classified primarily as direct clinical evidence, 9 adjacent clinical sources, and 4 mechanistic or model-system sources, which means causal interpretation depends on how much weight is assigned to each evidence tier."},{"id":"claim_29","type":"claim","text":"A second limitation is endpoint heterogeneity. Study-level signals span the longevity outcome class, the contextual adjacent evidence, immune and inflammation outcome classes, no dominant outcome class, and the contextual adjacent evidence outcome class; these domains cannot be pooled narratively without losing clinically relevant differences in measurement, population, and study design."},{"id":"claim_30","type":"claim","text":"For longevity lifespan rates, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. Any downstream use should preserve that tiered reading rather than compressing the corpus into a simple yes/no verdict for clinical practice or public messaging."},{"id":"source_1","type":"source","study":"Enhanced Selenium Supplement Extends Lifespan and Delays Multi‐Organs Aging by Regulating the Sik1 Pathway Through Maintaining Calcium Homeostasis","year":2025,"doi":"10.1002/advs.202511813","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202511813","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Yu 2025","excerpt":"Selenium supplementation has potential in treating aging-related disorders like neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, but its use is limited by poor bioavailability, a narrow therapeutic window, and unclear mechanisms. To overcome this, redox-dual-responsive diselenide-bridged mesoporous silica nanoparticles (SeMSNs) are developed. SeMSNs effectively reduce oxidative stress and downregulate senescence markers (p16, p21), suppressing senescence in both naturally aged primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) and H 2 O 2 -induced HEK-293T cells. They show prolonged antioxidant effects (p < 0.05) and lower cytotoxicity (p < 0.01) than commercial selenomethionine. In aged mice, SeMSNs extend lifespan, reduce frailty, and improve age-related conditions, including muscle atrophy, renal dysfunction, cognitive decline, and hepatic steatosis, while restoring metabolic balance. They outperform conventional organically-bridged mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) and disulfide-bridged MSNs (SMSNs) (p < 0.01)."},{"id":"source_2","type":"source","study":"Developmental disruption of the mitochondrial fission gene drp-1 extends the longevity of daf-2 insulin/IGF-1 receptor mutant","year":2024,"doi":"10.1007/s11357-024-01276-z","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-024-01276-z","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Traa 2024","excerpt":"The dynamic nature of the mitochondrial network is regulated by mitochondrial fission and fusion, allowing for re-organization of mitochondria to adapt to the cell's ever-changing needs. As organisms age, mitochondrial fission and fusion become dysregulated and mitochondrial networks become increasingly fragmented. Modulation of mitochondrial dynamics has been shown to affect longevity in fungi, yeast, Drosophila and C. elegans. Disruption of the mitochondrial fission gene drp-1 drastically increases the already long lifespan of daf-2 insulin/IGF-1 signaling (IIS) mutants. In this work, we determined the conditions required for drp-1 disruption to extend daf-2 longevity and explored the molecular mechanisms involved. We found that knockdown of drp-1 during development is sufficient to extend daf-2 lifespan, while tissue-specific knockdown of drp-1 in neurons, intestine or muscle failed to increase daf-2 longevity. Disruption of other genes involved in mitochondrial fission also increased daf-2 lifespan as did treatment with RNA interference clones that decrease mitochondrial fragmentation."},{"id":"source_3","type":"source","study":"Host Oxidative Response Capacity Determines Longevity Outcomes of Microbial Interventions","year":2026,"doi":"10.1111/acel.70418","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70418","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Hao 2026","excerpt":"Microbial communities profoundly influence host aging, yet how natural genetic variation determines microbiota-driven longevity remains unclear. By screening root-derived bacterial isolates across genetically diverse Caenorhabditis elegans strains, we identified striking phenotypic heterogeneity, ranging from lifespan extension to accelerated aging. Combining classical genetic analysis, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping and CRISPR-Cas9 allelic recapitulation, we identify skn-1 (Nrf2) and gsy-1 (glycogen synthase) as key host determinants. We demonstrate that strains with mutations or specific natural variants in these loci exhibit a compromised redox buffering capacity, leading to systemic oxidative stress, loss of tissue integrity, and premature death upon microbial challenge. Conversely, robust hosts utilize the same microbial signals to promote longevity. Notably, lifespan defects in susceptible individuals were rescued by antioxidant supplementation. These findings establish redox homeostasis as a central axis in host-microbe-aging interactions and provide a mechanistic framework for precision microbiome interventions tailored to host genetic backgrounds."},{"id":"source_4","type":"source","study":"Decanoic acid extends lifespan and modulates metabolism in models of PLA2G6 -associated neurodegeneration","year":2025,"doi":"10.1242/dmm.052184","url":"https://doi.org/10.1242/dmm.052184","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Zhang 2025","excerpt":"PLA2G6-associated neurodegeneration (PLAN) is a group of rare genetic disorders characterised by progressive neurodegeneration resulting from mutations in the PLA2G6 gene, encoding a calcium-independent phospholipase enzyme. Here, we have explored the effects of decanoic acid (DA), a medium-chain fatty acid, in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster models of PLAN and show that DA treatment significantly extends the lifespan, reduces bang sensitivity and improves resistance to heat shock stress. Transcriptional analysis showed that DA affects genes in key signalling pathways, including Insulin/Insulin-like Growth Factor, mTOR, heat shock response, Sirtuin, autophagy and mitochondrial function. Additionally, DA treatment alters the metabolite profiles in PLAN model flies, with the most pronounced changes observed in gut tissue. Pathway analysis of these metabolomic shifts highlights potential therapeutic effects of DA in several pathways, including ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters, purine metabolism, cAMP signalling and neuroactive ligand-receptor interactions."},{"id":"source_5","type":"source","study":"Curcumin Inhibits TORC1 and Prolongs the Lifespan of Cells with Mitochondrial Dysfunction","year":2024,"doi":"10.3390/cells13171470","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/cells13171470","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Naaz 2024","excerpt":"Aging is an inevitable biological process that contributes to the onset of age-related diseases, often as a result of mitochondrial dysfunction. Understanding the mechanisms behind aging is crucial for developing therapeutic interventions. This study investigates the effects of curcumin on postmitotic cellular lifespan (PoMiCL) during chronological aging in yeast, a widely used model for human postmitotic cellular aging. Our findings reveal that curcumin significantly prolongs the PoMiCL of wildtype yeast cells, with the most pronounced effects observed at lower concentrations, indicating a hormetic response. Importantly, curcumin also extends the lifespan of postmitotic cells with mitochondrial deficiencies, although the hormetic effect is absent in these defective cells. Mechanistically, curcumin inhibits TORC1 activity, enhances ATP levels, and induces oxidative stress. These results suggest that curcumin has the potential to modulate aging and offer therapeutic insights into age-related diseases, highlighting the importance of context in its effects."},{"id":"source_6","type":"source","study":"Bridging expectations and science: a roadmap for the future of longevity interventions","year":2025,"doi":"10.1007/s10522-025-10278-z","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10522-025-10278-z","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Yu 2025b","excerpt":"The field of longevity interventions has witnessed rapid expansion, driven by scientific advancements alongside growing industry and consumer interest. However, no longevity intervention has yet been proven effective or ready for widespread clinical adoption. A substantial gap persists between public expectations and the current scientific realities. This article explores four key themes: (1) consumer priorities regarding longevity interventions, (2) the type and depth of scientific information they value, (3) psychological, financial, and practical barriers limiting adoption, and (4) potential strategies to overcome these challenges. Despite increasing enthusiasm, clinical translation of longevity research is constrained by the lack of validated interventions, regulatory frameworks, and standardized biomarkers. By distinguishing between scientifically supported and unproven approaches, this article proposes a roadmap outlining the critical milestones necessary to advance longevity interventions from research to clinical readiness. The goal is to realign public understanding with the current state of longevity science and guide future efforts toward safe and effective translation."},{"id":"source_7","type":"source","study":"Mitochondrial Proteome Reveals Metabolic Tuning by Restricted Insulin Signaling to Promote Longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/biology14030279","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biology14030279","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Guo 2025","excerpt":"Aging is a time-dependent process of functional decline influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Age-related mitochondrial changes remain incompletely understood. Here, we found that compared to the wild type, the mitochondria of long-lived daf-2 C. elegans maintain youthful morphology and function. Through quantitative proteomic analysis on isolated mitochondria, we identified 257 differentially expressed candidates. Analysis of these changed mitochondrial proteins reveals a significant upregulation of five key mitochondrial metabolic pathways in daf-2 mutants, including branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), reactive oxygen species (ROS), propionate, β-alanine, and fatty acids (FA), all of which are related to daf-2 -mediated longevity. In addition, mitochondrial ribosome protein abundance slightly decreased in daf-2 mutants. A mild reduction in mitochondrial elongation factor G ( gfm-1 ) by RNAi extends the lifespan of wild type while decreasing lipid metabolic process and cytoplasmic fatty acid metabolism, suggesting that proper inhibition of mitochondrial translation activity might be important for lifespan extension."},{"id":"source_8","type":"source","study":"Molecular mechanisms of metformin action: From metabolic effects to lifespan extension and healthspan promotion","year":2026,"doi":"10.5937/jomb0-60849","url":"https://doi.org/10.5937/jomb0-60849","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Vujovic 2026","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Metformin, a biguanide primarily used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus, has attracted significant attention for its potential anti-ageing effects. As ageing becomes the primary risk factor for chronic diseases, interventions targeting fundamental ageing processes are gaining traction in biomedical research. METHODS: Accumulating evidence suggests that metformin exerts geroprotective effects through multiple interconnected pathways. These include activation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), inhibition of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR), attenuation of oxidative stress, modulation of mitochondrial biogenesis, and reduction of low-grade systemic inflammation. Together, these actions address key hallmarks of ageing such as cellular senescence, dysregulated nutrient sensing, and altered proteostasis. RESULTS: Animal studies have consistently shown that metformin extends both lifespan and healthspan. In humans, retrospective epidemiological data indicate reduced incidence of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and cognitive decline among metformin users."},{"id":"source_9","type":"source","study":"Yeast Chronological Lifespan Model as a Tool for Screening Aging Interventions","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/ijms27062633","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms27062633","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Xu 2026","excerpt":"Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a useful model to understand the biochemistry and biology of aging. Yeast speeds up the aging study due to its short lifespan, well-established genetics, and simple measurement for lifespan. The chronological lifespan in yeast specifically emphasizes the survival rate of the population, providing data that offer more direct feedback on experimental treatments than replicative lifespan. The advancement of the yeast chronological lifespan assay has enabled researchers to efficiently screen numerous potential antiaging compounds and delve into aging theories. Through the integration of robust genetic screening and high-throughput technologies, the yeast model has facilitated the identification of various antiaging factors with potential applications in humans, shedding light on the genetic mechanisms of aging. Many natural products, similar to calorie restriction, have been shown to effectively extend the lifespan of yeast, a benefit that is also conserved in mammals."},{"id":"source_10","type":"source","study":"Dendrobium officinale leaf extract extends the mean lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans via the DAF-16/SOD-3 axis.","year":2026,"doi":"10.1007/s10522-026-10456-7","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10522-026-10456-7","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"review-level","cited_as":"Gong 2026","excerpt":"This study aims to investigate the mechanism by which extract of Dendrobium officinale leaves (EDL) extends the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans. Untargeted metabolomics and network pharmacology analyses revealed that EDL primarily contains active components such as fatty acids, flavonoids, and polyphenols, which are predicted to potentially modulate pathways including MAPK, AMPK, mTOR, and longevity-related signaling pathways. Experimental results showed that 2 mg/mL EDL significantly extended the mean lifespan of nematodes by 11.4%, enhanced pharyngeal pumping rate and muscular endurance, but reduced brood size. EDL treatment also significantly decreased lipid droplet accumulation, cell apoptosis, and lipofuscin levels. Transcriptomic analysis indicated that EDL regulated the expression of multiple genes related to energy metabolism, particularly activating longevity-regulating pathways and the AMPK signaling pathway. RT-qPCR results demonstrated that EDL significantly increased the mRNA level of sod-3 in C.elegans. In conclusion, EDL may upregulate the expression of the sod-3 gene via the DAF-16/SOD-3 axis, thereby extending lifespan in C."},{"id":"source_11","type":"source","study":"Rec-8 dimorphism affects longevity, stress resistance and X-chromosome nondisjunction in C. elegans , and replicative lifespan in S. cerevisiae","year":2014,"doi":"10.3389/fgene.2014.00211","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2014.00211","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Ayyadevara 2014","excerpt":"A quantitative trait locus (QTL) in the nematode C. elegans, \"lsq4,\" was recently implicated by mapping longevity genes. QTLs for lifespan and three stress-resistance traits coincided within a span of <300 kbp, later narrowed to <200 kbp. A single gene in this interval is now shown to modulate all lsq4-associated traits. Full-genome analysis of transcript levels indicates that lsq4 contains a dimorphic gene governing the expression of many sperm-specific genes, suggesting an effect on spermatogenesis. Quantitative analysis of allele-specific transcripts encoded within the lsq4 interval revealed significant, 2- to 15-fold expression differences for 10 of 33 genes. Fourteen \"dual-candidate\" genes, implicated by both position and expression, were tested for RNA-interference effects on QTL-linked traits. In a strain carrying the shorter-lived allele, knockdown of rec-8 (encoding a meiotic cohesin) reduced its transcripts 4-fold, to a level similar to the longer-lived strain, while extending lifespan 25-26%, whether begun before fertilization or at maturity."},{"id":"source_12","type":"source","study":"The exceptional longevity of the naked mole‐rat may be explained by mitochondrial antioxidant defenses","year":2019,"doi":"10.1111/acel.12916","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.12916","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Munro 2019","excerpt":"Naked mole-rats (NMRs) are mouse-sized mammals that exhibit an exceptionally long lifespan (>30 vs. <4 years for mice), and resist aging-related pathologies such as cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, cancer, and neurodegeneration. However, the mechanisms underlying this exceptional longevity and disease resistance remain poorly understood. The oxidative stress theory of aging posits that (a) senescence results from the accumulation of oxidative damage inflicted by reactive oxygen species (ROS) of mitochondrial origin, and (b) mitochondria of long-lived species produce less ROS than do mitochondria of short-lived species. However, comparative studies over the past 28 years have produced equivocal results supporting this latter prediction. We hypothesized that, rather than differences in ROS generation, the capacity of mitochondria to consume ROS might distinguish long-lived species from short-lived species. To test this hypothesis, we compared mitochondrial production and consumption of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ; as a proxy of overall ROS metabolism) between NMR and mouse skeletal muscle and heart."},{"id":"source_13","type":"source","study":"A Cohort Comparison of Lifespan After Age 100 in Denmark and Sweden: Are Only the Oldest Getting Older?","year":2019,"doi":"10.1007/s13524-018-0755-7","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-018-0755-7","population":"not extracted","intervention_or_exposure":"not extracted","comparator":"not extracted","endpoint":"not extracted","effect":"not extracted","risk_of_bias":"not appraised in public sidecar","directness":"primary","cited_as":"Medford 2019","excerpt":"Although Denmark and Sweden have close cultural and historical ties, lifespans for Danes have generally been lower than those of Swedes. Recent improvements in Danish mortality after a period of stagnation have led to the suspicion that there may be positive trends at the very high ages at death within that population and that these trends could be quite different from those observed in Sweden. Although the mean ages at death for Danish and Swedish centenarians have been relatively constant at about 102 years for the cohorts born 1870-1904, the oldest-old in Denmark have been getting older, but no evidence has suggested any increase in lifespan for Swedes. Using quantile regression, we show that Danish centenarian lifespans in the 90th percentile have been lengthening, with those in 94th percentile (6 % longest-lived individuals) having a trend that is statistically significant at the 5 % level. 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Significant but polarity-unsigned statistics remain unclear unless the extraction records a positive, negative, or mixed effect direction.","The curated corpus does not contain a long-term, hard-outcome randomized mortality trial in non-diabetic older adults, and this absence is the most consequential scope limitation of the present synthesis. Several mechanistic and preclinical sources (e. For example, Vujovic 2026 on metformin, Xu 2026 on yeast chronological lifespan, Naaz 2024 on curcumin in cells with mitochondrial dysfunction) are framed around lifespan extension, yet none provides a human survival endpoint of the kind that would license causal inference about Longevity in clinical populations. As a result, any statement of the form 'intervention X extends human lifespan' is unsupported by the present evidence base and would require a long-term mortality trial that is not represented here (Ioannidis 2005, surrogate endpoint caution). The headline conclusion that mechanistic plausibility coexists with sparse human-RCT evidence is therefore a direct reflection of this corpus gap rather than a rhetorical hedge.","Several interventions are supported only by mechanistic evidence for a clinically relevant claim: Vujovic 2026 articulates the molecular action of metformin but stops short of clinical mortality data, and the documented preclinical lifespan extension typically attributed to metformin in animal models (~5% per Anisimov 2008) is not matched by an equivalent human survival trial in this corpus.","Until long-term, adequately powered human trials with mortality or hard functional endpoints are added to the evidence base, the Longevity case must be read as biologically suggestive but clinically unproven.","For longevity lifespan rates, the final interpretation is deliberately tiered: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines a bounded geroscience rationale, but the corpus does not support treating mechanistic target engagement, intermediate biomarkers, and patient-relevant outcomes as interchangeable evidence. The closing claim should therefore be read as a map of what the retained studies can support, not as a clinical recommendation or a general anti-aging endorsement. Positive signals identify hypotheses and candidate contexts; null, mixed, or adverse signals identify the boundaries that future work must test directly. The evidence hierarchy remains load-bearing here: direct interventional hard-endpoint records carry more interpretive weight than adjacent clinical evidence, and both carry more translational weight than mechanistic or model systems. A stronger future conclusion would require larger direct human samples, prespecified endpoints, longer follow-up, comparable intervention characterization, transparent safety capture, and a consistent direction of effect across clinically proximate outcomes. Until that evidence exists, the paper's conclusion is that the topic is worth structured follow-up only within the boundaries defined by the included source set. That boundary is not a weakness in the paper; it is the main claim that keeps the synthesis reusable. Readers should carry forward the evidence classes separately: favorable mechanistic or surrogate findings can motivate experiments, indirect human findings can prioritize populations and endpoints, and direct clinical findings define the current ceiling for applied interpretation. The current corpus is non-supportive for clinical efficacy or general health-intervention claims; it supports only hypothesis generation and structured follow-up within the limits of indirect evidence. 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