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

The Proof with Simon Hill

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IGF-1 Is a Cancer Risk Factor?

The claim or the phrase that people use is not everyone with high IGF-1 develops cancer. So how would you go about sort of unpacking that for someone? I have a very simple one. Now everybody that drives 120 miles an hour gets in an accident. That's right. So it raises your risk, but it's not a guarantee. Yeah. Next question. Number three,. this is one that I've seen thrown around online as a bit of a criticism or a knock on the idea that IGF-1 raises risk of cancer. And then if they have a high protein, Western diet, with lots of fat, they didn't die earlier. The consequences in humans and in mice

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