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473: How to age backwards | Mark Hyman, M.D.

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Is M-Tor the Key to Building Muscle?

M-Tor and insulin get kicked on when there's too much of something. AMPK and sirtuins get turned on when there is not enough food. So if you want to build muscle, you need M-Tor. But if you have it always switched on, you're going to overgrow meaning cancer or other horrible disease of aging. You will not allow the body to do the self-cleaning process we call autophagy. It's built in system of recycling, repair, renewal, and regeneration. And I see this a lot. People who don't understand the science of protein very frail.

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