Peter Attia· MD
I think this story got confounded by our good friend C elegans right so let's go back 29 years roughly call it 30 years directionally when some very seminal and interesting work was published looking at the daf 16 mutation in or maybe it was daf2 I can't remember if it was daf 2 first or daf 16 but it was the analog of the igf receptor and if you knocked out that Gene you could double the lifespan from roughly two weeks to four weeks or four weeks to eight weeks I forget what it was of uh C elegans this worm and the implication of that was profound