The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
There's a genetic pathway that gets triggered by low energy. And these genes, we talked about in last episode, they called "sirtuins" and there are five of these genes in yeast and seven in our bodies. And they respond to low energy.
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And so in our bodies as well, when we're hungry, these genes come on that make more NAD, this very small molecule that the sirtuins need for fuel. And then they do the protection. They repair DNA and they stabilize the epigenome.