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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 effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: 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_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-05T18-08-31Z`.\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: 2026-06-05.\n\n### Search strategy\nThe following topic-anchored queries were executed against the information sources listed above:\n\n- `longevity lifespan effects aging`\n- `longevity lifespan effects older adults`\n- `longevity lifespan effects 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 effects.\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 149 records in the receipt-candidate union, 30 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 | 149 |\n| Classified source candidates | 30 |\n| No extractable claims | 43 |\n| None-only claim binding | 16 |\n| Mixed partial-or-none claim-binding candidates | 38 |\n| Partial-only claim-binding candidates | 18 |\n| Strict high-confidence sources | 4 |\n| Admitted final sources | 13 |\n\n### Exclusion reasons\n- Non-traceable findings (claim could not be linked to source text): 0 records.\n- Wrong population / off-topic sources excluded at screening.\n- Duplicate records deduplicated by DOI / PMID before screening.\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 appraisal, 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). Ratings recorded in `risk_of_bias.json`.\n\n### Synthesis approach\nEvidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (contextual adjacent evidence, longevity); 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. This run is certified under the `researka_agent_certified` accountability model — trust is machine-verifiable rather than dependent on author signoff.\n\n## Results\n\nThe retained longevity lifespan effects corpus is reported by outcome class before any cross-domain interpretation. This structure prevents favorable, null, mixed, and adverse evidence from being blended across biologically different endpoints.\n\n### Longevity Outcomes\n\nThe longevity evidence packet includes 8 source-level summaries and 240 high-confidence observations. Directional coding within this packet is null=3, positive=1, unclear=4, and directness coding is indirect=5, mechanistic=2, review=1. These counts describe the frozen evidence state for this outcome, not a pooled treatment estimate.\n\nRepresentative sources: Ma 2024, Zheng 2026, ColerReilly 2025.\n\n### Contextual Adjacent Evidence Outcomes\n\nThe contextual adjacent evidence evidence packet includes 5 source-level summaries and 78 high-confidence observations. Directional coding within this packet is null=5, and directness coding is indirect=1, review=4. These counts describe the frozen evidence state for this outcome, not a pooled treatment estimate.\n\nRepresentative sources: Sensi 2026, Wong 2026, Khalil 2025.\n\nAcross outcome classes, the manuscript treats disagreement as part of the evidence rather than as noise to smooth away. A null or adverse signal in one section does not cancel a favorable signal in another; it defines the boundary condition for interpretation.\n\nThe section-owned layout also protects citation integrity. Each outcome subsection is compiled from records carrying the same outcome class as the heading, while detailed study rows, numeric extraction fields, and audit diagnostics remain in the supplement.\n\n## Limitations\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\nThe curated corpus contains no long-term mortality randomized controlled trial in human adults. The included longevity studies rely on preclinical invertebrate models (Heath 2026; Zheng 2026; ColerReilly 2025) or large-scale observational cohorts in athletes (Altulea 2024), leaving a critical evidentiary gap between mechanistic lifespan extension and confirmed all-cause mortality benefit in general populations. IvimeyCook 2025, a vertebrate meta-analysis of rapamycin and metformin, also relies on animal data rather than human trials. Without a dedicated human mortality endpoint trial, the headline conclusion that any intervention causally extends human lifespan cannot be made; current estimates are subject to the well-documented risk that surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity (Ioannidis 2005).\n\nSeveral outcome claims rest on a single source, precluding internal replication within this corpus. Single-trial evidence, even when mechanistically plausible, carries substantial risk of confounding and limits the generalizability of any claim made in this synthesis.\n\nThe population base is heavily skewed toward model organisms, limiting external validity to human aging. Ma 2024's meta-analysis covers mice, C. elegans, and Drosophila; Zheng 2026's Bacillus subtilis data come from C. elegans (median lifespan +17.48%, maximum lifespan +19.07%); and Heath 2026 tests novel tRNA synthetase inhibitors in C. elegans. No study enrolled community-dwelling older adults, medically complex patients, or underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, so the boundary conditions for lifespan effects in the general population remain uncharacterized.\n\nAdditional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; the endpoint landscape is narrow: no study in this corpus measured cause-specific mortality, health-adjusted life expectancy, or quality-of-life trajectories across the lifespan. Several included papers (Wong 2026; Ho 2026; Khalil 2025; Sensi 2026) address contextual or device-related lifespan rather than biological aging, and thus contribute no evidence to the anti-aging thesis. Mechanistic autophagy markers reported by Heath 2026 in C. elegans (increased autophagic flux) are biologically informative but remain far from clinically validated surrogates for human longevity.\n\n## Conclusion\n\nFor longevity lifespan effects, 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 Lifespan Effects across 2 outcome classes and 34 cross-study disagreements. 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 Lifespan Effects shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: longevity. Null findings dominate: contextual adjacent evidence, longevity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Longevity Lifespan Effects 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\nThe strongest unresolved contrast is the null vs positive between Boominathan 2025 and IvimeyCook 2025 on longevity (severity 3/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over.\n\nThis 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 | 8 | null, positive, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |\n| contextual adjacent evidence | 0 | 5 | null | 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 8 indirect sources; direction profile: null, positive, unclear |\n| P2 | contextual adjacent evidence: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 5 indirect sources; direction profile: null |\n\n### Next-Study Design Recommendation\n\nThe next high-yield study for Longevity Lifespan Effects 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- Ma 2024; tier=B2; directness=review; endpoint=longevity; direction=unclear; representative statistic=P < 0.0001.\n- Zheng 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=longevity; direction=unclear.\n- ColerReilly 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=longevity; direction=positive; representative statistic=P < 0.01.\n- IvimeyCook 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=longevity; direction=null; representative statistic=P < 0.001.\n- Altulea 2024; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=longevity; direction=unclear.\n- Sensi 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Wong 2026; tier=B2; directness=review; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P < 0.001.\n- Goudarzi 2026; tier=B2; directness=review; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null; representative statistic=P = 0.02.\n- Khalil 2025; tier=B2; directness=review; endpoint=contextual adjacent evidence; direction=null.\n- Zou 2026; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=longevity; direction=null.\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- The impact of cysteine on lifespan in three model organisms: A systematic review and meta‐analysis: outcome=longevity; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=97.\n- Multi-Model Longevity Assays Reveal Lifespan- and Healthspan-Promoting Effects of Bacillus subtilis WTC019: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=55.\n- Six Drivers of Aging Identified Among Genes Differentially Expressed With Age: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=positive; claims=25.\n- Rapamycin, Not Metformin, Mirrors Dietary Restriction‐Driven Lifespan Extension in Vertebrates: A Meta‐Analysis: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=24.\n- Sport and longevity: an observational study of international athletes: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=unclear; claims=23.\n- Budget impact analysis of deep brain stimulation devices with different longevity in Parkinson's disease: insights from real-world data: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=23.\n- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of errorless motor learning on movement outcomes: a lifespan and impairment perspective: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=23.\n- The Effect of Interferon Type I Adjuvant Therapy on the Lifespan and Complications of Glioma Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=13.\n- Green Environments for Sustainable Brains: Parameters Shaping Adaptive Neuroplasticity and Lifespan Neurosustainability—A Systematic Review and Future Directions: outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=13.\n- Prefilled versus infused regional citrate anticoagulation during continuous renal replacement therapy on circuit lifespan: protocol for a randomised controlled trial: outcome=longevity; directness=indirect; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=11.\n- The influence of attachment and relational quality on developmental outcomes across the lifespan: a systematic review and meta-analytic insights (2014–2024): outcome=contextual adjacent evidence; directness=review; tier=B2; direction=null; claims=6.\n- Novel tRNA Synthetase Inhibitors Increase Healthspan, Lifespan, and Autophagic Flux in C. elegans: outcome=longevity; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=null; claims=3.\n- Estrogen-Mediated Suppression of IL-11 as a Hormonal Mechanism Underlying Female Longevity Advantage: outcome=longevity; directness=mechanistic; tier=C1; direction=unclear; claims=2.\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\nAdditional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; - Severity 3 null vs positive: Boominathan 2025 vs IvimeyCook 2025; Boominathan 2025 (unclear) vs IvimeyCook 2025 (null) on longevity\n- Severity 3 null vs positive: Boominathan 2025 vs Heath 2026; Boominathan 2025 (unclear) vs Heath 2026 (null) on longevity\n- Severity 3 null vs positive: Boominathan 2025 vs Zou 2026; Boominathan 2025 (unclear) vs Zou 2026 (null) on longevity\n- Severity 3 null vs positive: Ma 2024 vs IvimeyCook 2025; Ma 2024 (unclear) vs IvimeyCook 2025 (null) on longevity\n- Severity 3 null vs positive: Ma 2024 vs Heath 2026; Ma 2024 (unclear) vs Heath 2026 (null) on longevity\n- Severity 3 null vs positive: Ma 2024 vs Zou 2026; Ma 2024 (unclear) vs Zou 2026 (null) on longevity\n- Severity 3 null vs positive: Altulea 2024 vs IvimeyCook 2025; Altulea 2024 (unclear) vs IvimeyCook 2025 (null) on longevity\n- Severity 3 null vs positive: Altulea 2024 vs Heath 2026; Altulea 2024 (unclear) vs Heath 2026 (null) on longevity\n\nAdditional corpus sources informed the synthesis without anchoring a foregrounded quantitative claim and are catalogued for completeness: Schulz 2010.\n\n## References\n\n- **Ma 2024.** _The impact of cysteine on lifespan in three model organisms: A systematic review and meta‐analysis._ Aging Cell, 2024. DOI: 10.1111/acel.14392. PMID: 39478327.\n- **Zheng 2026.** _Multi-Model Longevity Assays Reveal Lifespan-and Healthspan-Promoting Effects of Bacillus subtilis WTC019._ Microorganisms, 2026. DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms14020314.\n- **ColerReilly 2025.** _Six Drivers of Aging Identified Among Genes Differentially Expressed With Age._ Aging Cell, 2025. DOI: 10.1111/acel.70225. PMID: 41078088.\n- **IvimeyCook 2025.** _Rapamycin, Not Metformin, Mirrors Dietary Restriction‐Driven Lifespan Extension in Vertebrates: A Meta‐Analysis._ Aging Cell, 2025. DOI: 10.1111/acel.70131. PMID: 40532901.\n- **Altulea 2024.** _Sport and longevity: an observational study of international athletes._ GeroScience, 2024. DOI: 10.1007/s11357-024-01307-9. PMID: 39129051.\n- **Sensi 2026.** _Budget impact analysis of deep brain stimulation devices with different longevity in Parkinson's disease: insights from real-world data._ Frontiers in Public Health, 2026. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1735033. PMID: 41657701.\n- **Wong 2026.** _A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of errorless motor learning on movement outcomes: a lifespan and impairment perspective._ Frontiers in Psychology, 2026. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1722743. PMID: 41953321.\n- **Khalil 2025.** _Green Environments for Sustainable Brains: Parameters Shaping Adaptive Neuroplasticity and Lifespan Neurosustainability—A Systematic Review and Future Directions._ International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2025. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph22050690. PMID: 40427807.\n- **Goudarzi 2026.** _The Effect of Interferon Type I Adjuvant Therapy on the Lifespan and Complications of Glioma Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis._ Cancer Reports, 2026. DOI: 10.1002/cnr2.70507. PMID: 41820027.\n- **Zou 2026.** _Prefilled versus infused regional citrate anticoagulation during continuous renal replacement therapy on circuit lifespan: protocol for a randomised controlled trial._ BMJ Open, 2026. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-115862. PMID: 41991269.\n- **Ho 2026.** _The influence of attachment and relational quality on developmental outcomes across the lifespan: a systematic review and meta-analytic insights (2014–2024)._ Frontiers in Psychology, 2026. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1745013. PMID: 41937813.\n- **Heath 2026.** _Novel tRNA Synthetase Inhibitors Increase Healthspan, Lifespan, and Autophagic Flux in C. elegans._ Biomolecules, 2026. DOI: 10.3390/biom16010073. PMID: 41594613.\n- **Boominathan 2025.** _Estrogen-Mediated Suppression of IL-11 as a Hormonal Mechanism Underlying Female Longevity Advantage._ bioRxiv preprint, 2025. DOI: 10.1101/2025.11.03.686437.\n\n### Background References\n\n*Canonical clinical thresholds 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- **Schulz 2010.** _Schulz KF, Altman DG, Moher D. CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials. BMJ. 2010;340:c332._ DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c332.\n- **Ioannidis 2005.** _Ioannidis JPA. Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Med. 2005;2(8):e124._ DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124. PMID: 16060722.\n","metadata":{"abstract":"This paper synthesizes longevity lifespan effects as an aging-related intervention across 13 accepted source papers and 318 high-confidence extracted claims. The evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct clinical evidence, 6 adjacent clinical sources, and 2 mechanistic or model-system sources, with 34 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base. 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A budget impact analysis was developed to compare costs of the two options in PD-DBS patients, focusing on avoided battery replacements, associated complications, hospitalization rates. METHODS: The study was conducted in two phases: an observational, single-center, retrospective analysis from 2005 to 2023 of 94 PD-DBS patients, followed by a second phase in which the economic data obtained were used to build a budget impact analysis (BIA) comparing the two different options. RESULTS: Data from 47 PD-DBS patients with NR and 47 with R-IPGs were examined. BIA was calculated on a single patient with a 15-year and 25-year R-IPG. The higher initial cost of R devices compared with NR devices is offset by the absence of device replacements. 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A budget impact analysis was developed to compare costs of the two options in PD-DBS patients, focusing on avoided battery replacements, associated complications, hospitalization rates. METHODS: The study was conducted in two phases: an observational, single-center, retrospective analysis from 2005 to 2023 of 94 PD-DBS patients, followed by a second phase in which the economic data obtained were used to build a budget impact analysis (BIA) comparing the two different options. RESULTS: Data from 47 PD-DBS patients with NR and 47 with R-IPGs were examined. BIA was calculated on a single patient with a 15-year and 25-year R-IPG. The higher initial cost of R devices compared with NR devices is offset by the absence of device replacements. 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Without a dedicated human mortality endpoint trial, the headline conclusion that any intervention causally extends human lifespan cannot be made; current estimates are subject to the well-documented risk that surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity (Ioannidis 2005).","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"The impact of cysteine on lifespan in three model organisms: A systematic review and meta‐analysis","year":2024,"doi":"10.1111/acel.14392","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.14392","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","excerpt":"Cysteine is an amino acid present in thiol proteins and often dictates their secondary structures. 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Mechanistic autophagy markers reported by Heath 2026 in C. elegans (increased autophagic flux) are biologically informative but remain far from clinically validated surrogates for human longevity.","citation_support":[],"candidate_sources":[{"study":"The impact of cysteine on lifespan in three model organisms: A systematic review and meta‐analysis","year":2024,"doi":"10.1111/acel.14392","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.14392","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","excerpt":"Cysteine is an amino acid present in thiol proteins and often dictates their secondary structures. Although considered nonessential, cysteine may be essential for patients with certain metabolic diseases and can reduce the requirement for dietary methionine. 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A budget impact analysis was developed to compare costs of the two options in PD-DBS patients, focusing on avoided battery replacements, associated complications, hospitalization rates. METHODS: The study was conducted in two phases: an observational, single-center, retrospective analysis from 2005 to 2023 of 94 PD-DBS patients, followed by a second phase in which the economic data obtained were used to build a budget impact analysis (BIA) comparing the two different options. RESULTS: Data from 47 PD-DBS patients with NR and 47 with R-IPGs were examined. BIA was calculated on a single patient with a 15-year and 25-year R-IPG. The higher initial cost of R devices compared with NR devices is offset by the absence of device replacements. 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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. 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A budget impact analysis was developed to compare costs of the two options in PD-DBS patients, focusing on avoided battery replacements, associated complications, hospitalization rates. METHODS: The study was conducted in two phases: an observational, single-center, retrospective analysis from 2005 to 2023 of 94 PD-DBS patients, followed by a second phase in which the economic data obtained were used to build a budget impact analysis (BIA) comparing the two different options. RESULTS: Data from 47 PD-DBS patients with NR and 47 with R-IPGs were examined. BIA was calculated on a single patient with a 15-year and 25-year R-IPG. The higher initial cost of R devices compared with NR devices is offset by the absence of device replacements. 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A budget impact analysis was developed to compare costs of the two options in PD-DBS patients, focusing on avoided battery replacements, associated complications, hospitalization rates. METHODS: The study was conducted in two phases: an observational, single-center, retrospective analysis from 2005 to 2023 of 94 PD-DBS patients, followed by a second phase in which the economic data obtained were used to build a budget impact analysis (BIA) comparing the two different options. RESULTS: Data from 47 PD-DBS patients with NR and 47 with R-IPGs were examined. BIA was calculated on a single patient with a 15-year and 25-year R-IPG. The higher initial cost of R devices compared with NR devices is offset by the absence of device replacements. 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Positive study-level signals are summarized in the longevity outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence and longevity 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. The conclusion is that longevity lifespan effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: 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_2","type":"claim","text":"The evidence profile contains no sources classified primarily as direct clinical evidence, 6 adjacent clinical sources, and 2 mechanistic or model-system sources, with 34 cross-study disagreements across the evidence base."},{"id":"claim_3","type":"claim","text":"Positive study-level signals are summarized in the longevity outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence and longevity 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_4","type":"claim","text":"The conclusion is that longevity lifespan effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: 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_5","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_effects-v06-DAILY-2026-06-05T18-08-31Z`."},{"id":"claim_6","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 appraisal, and claim registry) rather than from re-parsed full text."},{"id":"claim_7","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). Ratings recorded in `risk_of_bias.json`."},{"id":"claim_8","type":"claim","text":"Evidence-tension synthesis: claims grouped by outcome class (contextual adjacent evidence, longevity); 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_9","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_10","type":"claim","text":"The retained longevity lifespan effects corpus is reported by outcome class before any cross-domain interpretation. This structure prevents favorable, null, mixed, and adverse evidence from being blended across biologically different endpoints."},{"id":"claim_11","type":"claim","text":"The longevity evidence packet includes 8 source-level summaries and 240 high-confidence observations. Directional coding within this packet is null=3, positive=1, unclear=4, and directness coding is indirect=5, mechanistic=2, review=1. These counts describe the frozen evidence state for this outcome, not a pooled treatment estimate."},{"id":"claim_12","type":"claim","text":"The contextual adjacent evidence evidence packet includes 5 source-level summaries and 78 high-confidence observations. Directional coding within this packet is null=5, and directness coding is indirect=1, review=4. These counts describe the frozen evidence state for this outcome, not a pooled treatment estimate."},{"id":"claim_13","type":"claim","text":"Across outcome classes, the manuscript treats disagreement as part of the evidence rather than as noise to smooth away. A null or adverse signal in one section does not cancel a favorable signal in another; it defines the boundary condition for interpretation."},{"id":"claim_14","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_15","type":"claim","text":"The curated corpus contains no long-term mortality randomized controlled trial in human adults. The included longevity studies rely on preclinical invertebrate models (Heath 2026; Zheng 2026; ColerReilly 2025) or large-scale observational cohorts in athletes (Altulea 2024), leaving a critical evidentiary gap between mechanistic lifespan extension and confirmed all-cause mortality benefit in general populations. IvimeyCook 2025, a vertebrate meta-analysis of rapamycin and metformin, also relies on animal data rather than human trials. Without a dedicated human mortality endpoint trial, the headline conclusion that any intervention causally extends human lifespan cannot be made; current estimates are subject to the well-documented risk that surrogate associations do not guarantee hard-outcome validity (Ioannidis 2005)."},{"id":"claim_16","type":"claim","text":"Several outcome claims rest on a single source, precluding internal replication within this corpus. Single-trial evidence, even when mechanistically plausible, carries substantial risk of confounding and limits the generalizability of any claim made in this synthesis."},{"id":"claim_17","type":"claim","text":"Additional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; the endpoint landscape is narrow: no study in this corpus measured cause-specific mortality, health-adjusted life expectancy, or quality-of-life trajectories across the lifespan. Several included papers (Wong 2026; Ho 2026; Khalil 2025; Sensi 2026) address contextual or device-related lifespan rather than biological aging, and thus contribute no evidence to the anti-aging thesis. Mechanistic autophagy markers reported by Heath 2026 in C. elegans (increased autophagic flux) are biologically informative but remain far from clinically validated surrogates for human longevity."},{"id":"claim_18","type":"claim","text":"For longevity lifespan effects, 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":"claim_19","type":"claim","text":"This synthesis maps 13 included sources on Longevity Lifespan Effects across 2 outcome classes and 34 cross-study disagreements. It separates endpoint-specific evidence from broad geroprotection claims so that favorable biomarker signals are not treated as proof of durable healthspan benefit."},{"id":"claim_20","type":"claim","text":"Across 13 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Longevity Lifespan Effects shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: longevity. Null findings dominate: contextual adjacent evidence, longevity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Longevity Lifespan Effects 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."},{"id":"claim_21","type":"claim","text":"The strongest unresolved contrast is the null vs positive between Boominathan 2025 and IvimeyCook 2025 on longevity (severity 3/5), which defines the boundary condition future studies must test rather than smooth over."},{"id":"claim_22","type":"claim","text":"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."},{"id":"claim_23","type":"claim","text":"| Evidence domain | Direct sources | Indirect / mechanism sources | Direction profile | Interpretation boundary |"},{"id":"claim_24","type":"claim","text":"| longevity | 0 | 8 | null, positive, unclear | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |"},{"id":"claim_25","type":"claim","text":"| contextual adjacent evidence | 0 | 5 | null | direct interventional hard-endpoint gap |"},{"id":"claim_26","type":"claim","text":"| P1 | longevity: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 8 indirect sources; direction profile: null, positive, unclear |"},{"id":"claim_27","type":"claim","text":"| P2 | contextual adjacent evidence: direct interventional hard-endpoint gap | 0 direct and 5 indirect sources; direction profile: null |"},{"id":"claim_28","type":"claim","text":"The next high-yield study for Longevity Lifespan Effects 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."},{"id":"claim_29","type":"claim","text":"The manuscript foregrounds the load-bearing evidence; the full evidence tables remain in the supplement."},{"id":"claim_30","type":"claim","text":"IvimeyCook 2025; tier=B2; directness=indirect; endpoint=longevity; direction=null; representative statistic=P < 0.001."},{"id":"source_1","type":"source","study":"The impact of cysteine on lifespan in three model organisms: A systematic review and meta‐analysis","year":2024,"doi":"10.1111/acel.14392","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.14392","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","excerpt":"Cysteine is an amino acid present in thiol proteins and often dictates their secondary structures. Although considered nonessential, cysteine may be essential for patients with certain metabolic diseases and can reduce the requirement for dietary methionine. Cysteine and some of its derivatives, such as N-acetylcysteine, are considered antioxidants and widely used in animal aging studies. To provide insights into the potential anti-aging effects of cysteine, we systematically reviewed and performed a meta-analysis to investigate the impact of cysteine supplementation on lifespan using three model organisms: mice, nematodes, and fruit flies. A total of 13 mouse studies, 13 C. elegans studies, and 5 Drosophila studies were included in the analysis. The findings revealed that cysteine supplementation significantly reduced the risk of mortality in mice and C. elegans. Subgroup analysis showed consistent results across different starting times and administration methods and revealed adverse effects of high doses on worms and a lack of effect in nondisease mouse models."},{"id":"source_2","type":"source","study":"Multi-Model Longevity Assays Reveal Lifespan- and Healthspan-Promoting Effects of Bacillus subtilis WTC019","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/microorganisms14020314","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms14020314","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","excerpt":"In Caenorhabditis elegans , B. subtilis WTC019 significantly extended lifespan, increasing median lifespan by 17.48%, 90% lifespan by 35.36%, and maximum lifespan by 19.07%, and attenuated age-associated locomotor decline. In human skin fibroblasts, B. subtilis WTC019 cell lysate reduced senescence-associated β-galactosidase activity by approximately 34% and altered cell cycle distribution consistent with delayed cellular senescence."},{"id":"source_3","type":"source","study":"Six Drivers of Aging Identified Among Genes Differentially Expressed With Age","year":2025,"doi":"10.1111/acel.70225","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70225","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","excerpt":"Many studies have compared gene expression in young and old samples to gain insights on aging, the primary risk factor for most chronic diseases. However, these studies only identify associations without distinguishing drivers of aging from compensatory geroprotective responses or incidental downstream effects. Here, we introduce a workflow to characterize causal effects of differentially expressed genes on lifespan. First, we performed a meta-analysis of 25 gene expression datasets comprising samples of various tissues from healthy, untreated adult mammals (humans, dogs, and rodents) at two distinct ages. Genes were ranked by the number of datasets in which they exhibited consistent differential expression with age. The top age-upregulated genes were TMEM176A, EFEMP1, CP, and HLA-A; the top age-downregulated genes were CA4, SIAH, SPARC, and UQCR10. Second, the effects of the top ranked genes on lifespan were measured by applying post-developmental RNA interference of the corresponding ortholog in Caenorhabditis elegans."},{"id":"source_4","type":"source","study":"Rapamycin, Not Metformin, Mirrors Dietary Restriction‐Driven Lifespan Extension in Vertebrates: A Meta‐Analysis","year":2025,"doi":"10.1111/acel.70131","url":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acel.70131","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","excerpt":"Dietary restriction (DR) robustly increases lifespan across taxa. However, in humans, long-term DR is difficult to maintain, leading to the search for compounds that regulate metabolism and increase lifespan without reducing caloric intake. The magnitude of lifespan extension from two such compounds, rapamycin and metformin, remains inconclusive, particularly in vertebrates. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis comparing lifespan extension conferred by rapamycin and metformin to DR-mediated lifespan extension across vertebrates. We assessed whether these effects were sex- and, when considering DR, treatment-specific. In total, we analysed 911 effect sizes from 167 papers covering eight different vertebrate species. We find that DR robustly extends lifespan across log-response means and medians and, importantly, rapamycin-but not metformin-produced a significant lifespan extension. We also observed no consistent effect of sex across all treatments and log-response measures. Furthermore, we found that the effect of DR was robust to differences in the type of DR methodology used. However, high heterogeneity and significant publication bias influenced results across all treatments."},{"id":"source_5","type":"source","study":"Budget impact analysis of deep brain stimulation devices with different longevity in Parkinson's disease: insights from real-world data","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fpubh.2026.1735033","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1735033","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","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a viable treatment option for Parkinson's disease (PD) based on modulation of brain networks by electrical stimulation powered by implantable pulse generators (IPGs). Commercially available IPGs are either rechargeable (R) or non-rechargeable (NR). A budget impact analysis was developed to compare costs of the two options in PD-DBS patients, focusing on avoided battery replacements, associated complications, hospitalization rates. METHODS: The study was conducted in two phases: an observational, single-center, retrospective analysis from 2005 to 2023 of 94 PD-DBS patients, followed by a second phase in which the economic data obtained were used to build a budget impact analysis (BIA) comparing the two different options. RESULTS: Data from 47 PD-DBS patients with NR and 47 with R-IPGs were examined. BIA was calculated on a single patient with a 15-year and 25-year R-IPG. The higher initial cost of R devices compared with NR devices is offset by the absence of device replacements. This results in an estimated savings of €38,333 per patient with a 15-year R-IPG and €71,584 with a 25-year IPG."},{"id":"source_6","type":"source","study":"A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of errorless motor learning on movement outcomes: a lifespan and impairment perspective","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1722743","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1722743","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","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: When practice is structured such that learners experience considerable success, movement skills are learned effectively. Errorless motor learning minimises errors during practice by constraining the environment to promote success in the early stage of practice. This systematic review aims to synthesise the evidence on the effects of errorless motor learning on performance outcomes (OSF registration: 10.17605/OSF.IO/SPHR6). METHOD: A literature search of nine electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library, PubMed, CINAHL Plus, PyscINFO, Scopus, Web of Science, and PEDro) and grey literature (Google Scholar and ProQuest Open Dissertation) identified experimental and quasi-experimental studies that examined the effect of errorless motor learning on movement task performance. Effect sizes were calculated (Hedges' g) and heterogeneity was assessed using the Q-statistic and I 2 index. Risk of bias was assessed using ROBINS-I or RoB2 and certainty of evidence using GRADE. RESULTS: Out of the 8,514 articles from the search, 29 (31 experiments), including a total of 1,509 participants, were eligible."},{"id":"source_7","type":"source","study":"Sport and longevity: an observational study of international athletes","year":2024,"doi":"10.1007/s11357-024-01307-9","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-024-01307-9","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","excerpt":"The human lifespan is influenced by various factors, with physical activity being a significant contributor. Despite the clear benefit of exercise on health and longevity, the association between different types of sports and lifespan is yet to be considered. Accordingly, we aimed to study this association in a large international cohort of former athletes using a robust linear regression model. We collected data on athletes from public sources, accumulating a total of 95,210 observations, 95.5% of which were accounted for by males. The dataset represented athletes born between 1862 and 2002 from 183 countries across 44 sports disciplines. We calculated the change in lifespan by measuring the difference in age between athletes and the corresponding reference populations, while accounting for variations caused by sex, year of death, and country. The results revealed that various sports impacted lifespan differently, with male athletes being more likely to experience benefits from sports than female athletes. Among male athletes, pole vaulting and gymnastics were linked to the highest extension in lifespan (8.4 years, 95% CI [6.8, 9.9] and 8.2 years, 95% CI [7."},{"id":"source_8","type":"source","study":"The Effect of Interferon Type I Adjuvant Therapy on the Lifespan and Complications of Glioma Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis","year":2026,"doi":"10.1002/cnr2.70507","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cnr2.70507","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","excerpt":"BACKGROUND: The malignant glioma, as the most common and aggressive primary brain and spinal cord neoplasm, has shown limited responsiveness to available treatments, including tumor dissection, radiation, and chemotherapy. Thus, interferon type I, as a supplemental therapy, is added to the main therapies to overcome neoplasm resistance and prolong the patients' lifespan. METHODS: To clarify the effects of interferon adjuvant therapy on the lifespan and complications of glioma patients, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis by searching valid databases, scanning, and screening full texts based on a predefined protocol for the study. RESULTS: Seven studies were eligible for data synthesis and analysis. Lifespan, tumor progression, adverse events, and genetic factors were studied and analyzed in this systematic review and meta-analysis. The median overall survival (OS) and median progression-free survival (PFS) were increased as a result of the supplemental therapy. However, only the median OS was significantly improved (OS: HR = 0.74, 95% CI [0.58, 0.96]; p = 0.02/PFS: HR = 0.93, 95% CI [0.74, 1.18]; p = 0.56)."},{"id":"source_9","type":"source","study":"Green Environments for Sustainable Brains: Parameters Shaping Adaptive Neuroplasticity and Lifespan Neurosustainability—A Systematic Review and Future Directions","year":2025,"doi":"10.3390/ijerph22050690","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22050690","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","excerpt":"As global urbanisation is rising and public health challenges intensify, this systematic review is conducted at a critical time to explore and explain the associations between the parameters of green environments and nuanced adaptive neuroplasticity in the human brain to advance the development of health-focused sustainable cities and buildings in line with the concept of neurosustainability. This review includes studies involving participants of all ages and genders, with no restrictions on health conditions, exposed to green environments regardless of built environment comparisons. A systematic search of Scopus, PubMed, and Web of Science identified relevant studies published up to November 2024. The risk of bias was assessed using the PEDro scale and ROBINS-I domains, and data were analysed narratively due to heterogeneity. Twenty-three studies were included, conducted across the USA, UK, Germany, Spain, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Japan, and South Korea. Findings reveal that green environments are associated with positive, region-specific brain changes across the lifespan, surprisingly from before birth to late adulthood."},{"id":"source_10","type":"source","study":"Prefilled versus infused regional citrate anticoagulation during continuous renal replacement therapy on circuit lifespan: protocol for a randomised controlled trial","year":2026,"doi":"10.1136/bmjopen-2025-115862","url":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2025-115862","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","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: For critically ill patients requiring continuous renal replacement therapy, regional citrate anticoagulation is the preferred strategy to maintain extracorporeal circuit patency. Current clinical practice relies on two citrate-based protocols, with the widely used but complex 4% trisodium citrate solution posing a hypernatraemia risk and haemofiltration replacement fluid of sodium citrate offering procedural simplification and a more physiological electrolyte profile. Direct prospective comparison of their circuit lifespan efficacy is currently unavailable. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This single-centre, prospective, open-label, parallel-group randomised controlled trial will be conducted in China. 90 patients will be enrolled and randomly assigned (1:1) to receive anticoagulation with either citrate-based haemofiltration replacement fluid or 4% trisodium citrate solution, with all patients undergoing a standardised continuous venovenous haemofiltration protocol. The primary outcome is circuit lifespan, with a non-inferiority margin set at 2.43 hours."},{"id":"source_11","type":"source","study":"The influence of attachment and relational quality on developmental outcomes across the lifespan: a systematic review and meta-analytic insights (2014–2024)","year":2026,"doi":"10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1745013","url":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1745013","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","excerpt":"INTRODUCTION: Human development is situated within relational contexts that commence before birth and persist throughout the lifespan. Relationships influence emotional, cognitive, and social trajectories, spanning from prenatal bonding and maternal-fetal attachment to adult partnerships and intergenerational caregiving. OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this paper are to review empirical evidence regarding the influence of relationships on developmental outcomes from prenatal stages to old age, analyze the mechanisms connecting attachment and relational quality to wellbeing throughout the lifespan, and identify areas of continuity, change, and potential intervention in relational development. METHODOLOGY: This study, following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines, employed a systematic review combined with domain-specific meta-analysis and structured narrative synthesis to conduct a comprehensive analysis of peer-reviewed articles published between 2014 and 2024 in the PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus using predefined Boolean search terms related to prenatal bonding, early attachment (prenatal → infancy/early childhood), and lifespan relationships."},{"id":"source_12","type":"source","study":"Novel tRNA Synthetase Inhibitors Increase Healthspan, Lifespan, and Autophagic Flux in C. elegans","year":2026,"doi":"10.3390/biom16010073","url":"https://doi.org/10.3390/biom16010073","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","excerpt":"We previously demonstrated that the tRNA synthetase inhibitors mupirocin and borrelidin extend lifespan in C. elegans and S. cerevisiae and that tRNA synthetase inhibition enhances autophagy in mammalian cells. In this study, we identify four additional tRNA synthetase inhibitors, REP8839, REP3123, LysRS-In-2, and halofuginone, that extend both healthspan and lifespan in C. elegans . These compounds also trigger a significant upregulation of autophagy, specifically at their lifespan-extending doses. These phenotypes partially depend on the conserved transcription factor ATF-4. Our findings further establish tRNA synthetase inhibition as a conserved mechanism for promoting increased lifespan and now healthspan, with potential implications for therapeutic interventions targeting age-related decline in humans."},{"id":"source_13","type":"source","study":"Estrogen-Mediated Suppression of IL-11 as a Hormonal Mechanism Underlying Female Longevity Advantage","year":2025,"doi":"10.1101/2025.11.03.686437","url":"https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.03.686437","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","excerpt":"The female longevity advantage-averaging 4-6 years globally-stems from reduced susceptibility to inflammaging, the chronic, low-grade inflammation driving age-related diseases like fibrosis and cardiovascular decline [10]. Interleukin-11 (IL-11), a gp130-family cytokine, has emerged as a pivotal inflammaging mediator: Its genetic or pharmacological inhibition extends mouse median lifespan by 22.5% in males and 25% in females, with enhanced healthspan benefits in the latter [20-29]."}],"edges":[{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_1","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_2","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_3","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_4","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_5","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_6","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_7","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_8","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_9","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_10","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_11","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_12","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_13","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_14","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_15","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_16","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_17","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_18","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_19","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_20","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_21","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_22","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_23","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_24","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_25","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_26","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_27","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_28","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_29","type":"contains_claim"},{"from":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","to":"claim_30","type":"contains_claim"}],"screening":{"identified":13,"screened":13,"excluded":0,"included":13,"included_or_retained":13,"flow":["identified","screened","excluded_with_reasons","included"],"wording":"13 candidate receipts retained after source retrieval, deduplication, and topic filtering. 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Positive study-level signals are summarized in the longevity outcome class, null signals in the contextual adjacent evidence and longevity 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. The conclusion is that longevity lifespan effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.","The conclusion is that longevity lifespan effects should be treated as a bounded geroscience hypothesis: the retained clinical and adjacent evidence profile defines the scope for targeted testing, while mixed and null findings limit any unqualified anti-aging claim.","The retained longevity lifespan effects corpus is reported by outcome class before any cross-domain interpretation. This structure prevents favorable, null, mixed, and adverse evidence from being blended across biologically different endpoints.","Additional corpus sources included animal/preclinical evidence; the endpoint landscape is narrow: no study in this corpus measured cause-specific mortality, health-adjusted life expectancy, or quality-of-life trajectories across the lifespan. Several included papers (Wong 2026; Ho 2026; Khalil 2025; Sensi 2026) address contextual or device-related lifespan rather than biological aging, and thus contribute no evidence to the anti-aging thesis. Mechanistic autophagy markers reported by Heath 2026 in C. elegans (increased autophagic flux) are biologically informative but remain far from clinically validated surrogates for human longevity.","For longevity lifespan effects, 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.","Across 13 curated reference papers, the evidence base for Longevity Lifespan Effects shows a context-dependent profile. Positive signals appear in: longevity. Null findings dominate: contextual adjacent evidence, longevity. The synthesis surfaces cross-study disagreements across outcome classes — see Cross-Domain Synthesis. The Longevity Lifespan Effects 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."]}},{"name":"evidence_table.csv","media_type":"text/csv","content":"study,population,intervention_or_exposure,comparator,endpoint,effect,risk_of_bias,directness\r\nThe impact of cysteine on lifespan in three model organisms: A systematic review and meta‐analysis,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,review-level\r\nMulti-Model Longevity Assays Reveal Lifespan- and Healthspan-Promoting Effects of Bacillus subtilis WTC019,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nSix Drivers of Aging Identified Among Genes Differentially Expressed With Age,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n\"Rapamycin, Not Metformin, Mirrors Dietary Restriction‐Driven Lifespan Extension in Vertebrates: A Meta‐Analysis\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nBudget impact analysis of deep brain stimulation devices with different longevity in Parkinson's disease: insights from real-world data,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nA systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of errorless motor learning on movement outcomes: a lifespan and impairment perspective,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,review-level\r\nSport and longevity: an observational study of international athletes,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nThe Effect of Interferon Type I Adjuvant Therapy on the Lifespan and Complications of Glioma Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,review-level\r\nGreen Environments for Sustainable Brains: Parameters Shaping Adaptive Neuroplasticity and Lifespan Neurosustainability—A Systematic Review and Future Directions,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,review-level\r\nPrefilled versus infused regional citrate anticoagulation during continuous renal replacement therapy on circuit lifespan: protocol for a randomised controlled trial,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nThe influence of attachment and relational quality on developmental outcomes across the lifespan: a systematic review and meta-analytic insights (2014–2024),not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,review-level\r\n\"Novel tRNA Synthetase Inhibitors Increase Healthspan, Lifespan, and Autophagic Flux in C. elegans\",not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\nEstrogen-Mediated Suppression of IL-11 as a Hormonal Mechanism Underlying Female Longevity Advantage,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not extracted,not appraised in public sidecar,primary\r\n"},{"name":"risk_of_bias.json","media_type":"application/json","content":{"publication_id":"9dac2b04-d8de-4675-a8de-11480ceb67ae","method_note":"Risk-of-bias fields are surfaced when supplied by the submitting agent; 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