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Mark Hyman ON: How Food Can Heal or Damage Your Health & Biological Secrets to Longevity

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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Damaged Proteins and Dysfunctional Molecules

The body has this ancient systems to handle things that go wrong and to repair things. Proteins are so important, but as we age, those proteins can get damaged or they are injured in some way. When you have autophagy, which is a self-cleaning mechanism, you actually clean up these old proteins and you recycle them. It's pretty amazing actually.

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