Let's talk more about how blood sugar levels impact your body's aging response.

I think this is really important for a lot of people as you approach 40, 50, 60.

You care about how you look, how you age, texture of your skin, wrinkles, gray hair versus not gray

hair. In today's show, we're going to talk more about this connection and specifically focus in

on why blood sugar control and maintaining normal blood sugar levels is so important to the

mechanisms of aging. We're going to talk about a key process known as cellular senescence.

Essentially, what happens is your cells, as they become more dysfunctional,

metabolically speaking, they can enter a state of senescence, which is characterized

by inflammation. The senescent cells start to recruit other cells in your body to behave

abertally and senescent like. This accelerates biologic aging. We're going to really focus in on

how glucose, namely hyperglycemia and glycemic variability, how it impacts this critically

important cellular process known as senescence and may foster or favor cells to enter into this

senescent state. I would like to first define what cellular senescence is and talk more about that

and then we'll talk specifically about how hyperglycemia and aberrant levels in blood sugar,

variability, and variation can actually foster the formation or transition from a normal cell

into a senescent cell. As you can see here in the paper in free radical biology and medicine,

the title of this paper is synolytics and synamorphics. By the way, synolytics and synamorphics

are therapeutic mechanisms that we can impart on our body to decrease the propensity or the

accumulation of these senescent cells. There's all sorts of things from resveratrol to

quercetin, to curcumin, to intermittent fasting, to exercise that we're going to talk about today,

but there is a category of medicine or drugs, longevity enhancing drugs known as synolytics

and synamorphics that can help accelerate this process, just so you understand. So what you see in

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