I always say if you cut yourself within a couple weeks the repair is perfect and you go back to know how is it

possibly inside of the body we don't have any of this right so we just develop outside the repair mechanism but inside of the organism we don't

we do nothing about insulin resistance liver, liver, you know inflammation there is

no way right so the the body has these repair

mechanisms we just need to learn out of other trigger them and trigger them in a

way that that can result in, you know, repair and regeneration and we believe also rejuvenation.

This is episode number 112 with Dr. Walter Longo.

Welcome to pursuing health. I'm Julie Fushe, Family Medicine resident and

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Now let's get started with this week's episode.

Hey there, welcome back to pursuing health.

In this episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with one of the world's leading researchers of longevity Dr. Walter Longo.

A little bit about Dr. Longo, he is a professor of gerontology and biological sciences and the director of the longevity

Institute at the University of Southern California.

He is also the senior group leader of the IFOM Cancer Institute in Milan, Italy.

His studies focus on the fundamental mechanisms

of aging, and they range from molecular studies

in simple organisms and mice,

all the in longevity, Dr. Longo has applied his extensive knowledge on aging, genetics,

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