#02 - Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D.: the performance and longevity paradox of IGF-1, ketogenic diets and genetics, the health benefits of sauna, NAD+, and more
The Peter Attia Drive
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Is It Hard to Uncouple the Growth Worm on From Es?
There's a shaped mortality curve that is skewed to the right for i g f and all cose mortality, cancer mortality, cardio vascular mortality and nero degenerative mortality. But when you uncouple them by disease, you see a very interesting pattern. As i g f goes up, it actually starts to go down. It naters at the seventieth per centile, and then it starts to rise, but it doesn't get as high as it started. The older you get, the better i g f seems to be, presumably because of the preservation of lean tissue.
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