Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Stress proteins help those proteins maintain and get into that appropriate folded structure.
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Stress proteins help those proteins maintain and get into that appropriate folded structure.
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what we understand now is that they chaperone or they act as essentially little proteins that bind to other proteins to prevent them from being what we call misfolded. And part of the stress response, and so as the name implies, could be stress due to exercise, could be stress due to sickness, could be stress... you name it, is that more proteins are misfolded.