STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow Reduce protein to increase longevity? Nutrition experts say that’s a bad idea Reducing protein intake could increase human longevity, researchers recently suggested. That's a bad idea, for several reasons, experts say. https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/20/reduce-protein-increase-longevity-bad-idea-nutrition-experts/ statnews.com