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#268 Autophagy and NAD+ for Longevity - Dr Elena Seranova

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How to Measure Autophagy in the Cells

The main kind of stimulus is this energy stress or energy deprivation that the body gets low in certain nutrients. And then the response is to start to recycle them and clean out the things that you don't need so that you could feed and survive the healthier cell parts. In the lab, it's actually quite easy to measure autophagy in the cells because we can measure what's called the autophagic flux by measuring LC3 which is associated with the autophagosomes. However, this is not possible to do in humans. What we can do is we can measure the glucose ketone index, which is something doable. You can do this at home and you can measure your blood

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