Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Like most things in the body, too much or too little is a bad thing. So if you have no mTORC1, for example, in your muscles, you'd wither away and that would be a debilitating condition. In fact, for people with muscular dystrophy one of the things you want to do is figure out how to alter that pathway. But similarly, we know that overactivity is predisposing us to aging and, of course, certain diseases of aging like cancer.