DEREGULATED NUTRIENT SENSING & AGING | The Hallmarks of Aging [2020]

DEREGULATED NUTRIENT SENSING & AGING. Today we’ll be covering one of the Hallmarks of Aging, and if you use research into drugs that can extend the human lifespan, one of the most important ones. Food is essential. We eat food to fuel our bodies so we can move and to repair and build tissues. In order for our bodies to use food as fuel, it has to recognize the nutrients and get to work breaking them down and utilizing them. Good thing our bodies have several mechanisms to make that happen. This is the latest installment on the series on The Hallmarks Of Aging. In today's video, we will go over nutrient-sensing, which pathways are involved in that and how those processes tend to change, or become deregulated, as we age. And as always, there will be discussion to go over what, if anything, can be done about reversing those changes. Tune in to learn more about how the body uses food as fuel and how that changes as we age.