Andrew Huberman· PhD
if you have low levels of insulin and another molecule called insulin like growth factor, those low levels turn on the longevity genes.
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if you have low levels of insulin and another molecule called insulin like growth factor, those low levels turn on the longevity genes.
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And we showed in 2005, in a science paper, that if you have low levels of insulin, and another molecule called insulin-like growth factor, those low levels turn on the longevity genes. One of them that's really important is called SIRT1.