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16 | Coleen Murphy on Aging, Biology, and the Future
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Stress Response That Makes You Live Longer?
There's nothing biologically, certainly there's nothing in the laws of physics, but even biologically, there's nothing wrong with really repairing ourselves to keep them going. It's just that our biology chooses not to do that because we've outlived our usefulness. And some mild forms of stress, this idea of hormesus, where you have a mild stress and that turns on our stress response, makes an animal live longer. You know, that's the kind of thing that, you know, intermittent fasting or clor restriction, or some of these drugs might be doing.
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