If Dr Rattan is wrong, maximum lifespan as well as average lifespan will increase.
Inside the restaurant the decor is surprisingly attractive, the walls and ceilings covered in straw mats and rattan.
Xenohormesis is a variation of a more general theory, hormesis, which interests Suresh Rattan of Aarhus University in Denmark.
Dr Rattan also doubts whether calorie restriction will extend maximum human life expectancy.
But inside, Tarsila Dawisa, 55, has an active business making rattan shelving units.
Angklung is an Indonesian musical instrument consisting of two to four bamboo tubes suspended in a bamboo frame, bound with rattan cords.
Inside, floors morph from wood to stone to tile, rooms are demarcated only by rattan-wrapped poles, and a staircase seems suspended by nothing more than plants.
According to Dr Rattan, such interventions improve the function of a cell over time, and in doing so, may produce clinical benefits such as protection against neurodegenerative diseases.
Rattan mat maker Muhammad Yani, from Kalimantan, understands that.
At first glance, the performers might seem as if they are about to deliver a heavy-handed brand of agitprop - an impression reinforced by their martial stance and costumes (helmets, rattan shields and more).
Many of the health benefits of exercise are thought to be due to the synthesis of damage-controlling molecules called heat-shock proteins, and Dr Rattan's group has been experimenting with other ways of triggering these proteins.
The 24 rooms, 20 of which are spread out in cottages near the lodge, also aim to soothe, not dazzle--beige and white color schemes with rattan chairs and black iron tractor seats on the wall as decoration--and they're very appealing, even if they take the sheep motif a bit far (sheep pillows and photos, metal sheep on the rim of the deep soaking tub).
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