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Protein, IGF-1 and health Q & A | Valter Longo, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

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Are Amino Acids and Protein Consumption Related to IGF-1?

There's a number of studies suggesting that high protein, class of benefit, storage of fat. amino acids give an opportunity to independently of IGF-1 by the way,. to push tor and to push AKT and other growth, signaling pathways. So yeah, if you have lots of opportunities now, one of the opportunities could be a pre-cancer cell that is about to die; it gets enough for this amino acid to activate BCL or prevent apoptosis. Next thing you know, you gain the non-mutation and that's your death sentence, right?

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