#35 - Nir Barzilai, M.D.: How to tame aging
The Peter Attia Drive
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The Vaguest Nervous System
If i took an animal and put a lesion into the ventral part of the hypothalmus, a normal animal, what could that do? What would that change about its metabolism? Well, that would increase food intake and change a lot of the peripheral physiology. But we do basically opposite. We give insulin to dipotalamus, or glucos or i g f, or leptin, ok? And then we see what happens to the peripheral thouging the periphery, those hormon levels are not increasing at all. The liver is a good target to follow because what you can do with the liver, you can do selective patic vagotomi. Everything that you did through the brain doesn
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