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Dr. David Sinclair: The Biology of Slowing & Reversing Aging

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Is Obesity a Cause of Aging?

Why would being fat, ah, make people age faster? Yes, that's a question that is so obvious, but so few people ask it. But give you my best answer, which is that obesity comes along with a lot of problems that include a lot of senescent cells in fat. And when you kill off those cells, at least in mice and maybe in humans, it looks like the fat is less toxic to the body because those scanescent cells in the fat are secreting these amatory molecules that will accelerate aging as we no, no, you talk about the sortuins in n a, d a.

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