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Why We Grow Old And How To Age Well

The Dr. Hyman Show

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How to Reverse Yeast Aging

We started out with the question, why do organisms grow old in the first place? Very few people had actually asked it. So we studied yeast cells from bakers and brewers use it all the time. Why do yeast cells not live forever? And they typically live a week. We found what was surprising was how reversible the aging of mitochondria are in animals at least when we're doing human studies and clinical trials.

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