Peter Attia· MD
you took a worm that normally lives 2 weeks and you turned down its insulin receptor slightly not off correct right but you made it insulin resistant and it was accumulating fat
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you took a worm that normally lives 2 weeks and you turned down its insulin receptor slightly not off correct right but you made it insulin resistant and it was accumulating fat
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in 1997 a science paper appeared that made it the best day of my life and the worst day of my life okay Wow what was the paper the paper was taking in nematode okay so a primitive model decreasing the insulin sensitivity this is known as the daf-2 model and when you do that the nematode accumulates fat in their intestinal cell so they are becoming visceral obese and they leave several times longer