The makeup of our diet has a much stronger impact on ageing and metabolic health than drugs, a new study has found. A pre-clinical study by the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre has suggested that nutrition, including overall calories and macronutrient balance, can better protect the body against ageing, obesity, heart disease, immune dysfunction, and risk of metabolic diseases than anti-ageing drugs. Therefore, maintaining a healthy diet could be more effective than drugs in keeping conditions like diabetes, stroke, and heart disease at bay. “Diet is a powerful medicine,” said Professor Stephen Simpson, senior author and academic director of the Charles Perkins Centre. “However, presently drugs are administered without consideration of whether and how they might interact with our diet composition—even when these drugs are designed to act in the same way, and on the same nutrient-signalling pathways as diet.” The research conducted in mice showed drugs commonly used to treat diabetes …