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As many of my longtime listeners will know, I'm always on the top of latest research regarding

exciting compounds that support your health. And as soon as the research is available,

I like to bring it to you right here. I also like to try it out on myself and

my patients. So today I want to talk about some of the best supplements that are available right

now, but not very many people have heard about. So number one is spermidine. Now I'll give you

one guess where that compound was first discovered, and it's a naturally

occurring compound in the body. But it plays a crucial role in cellular function and survival.

In fact, spermidine is one of several polyamines, including putresene,

these actually regulate cellular function.

Now, how does it work?

Well, spermidine is very critical for the process of autophagy.

Now, you may remember the word atophagy.

I've talked about it a lot.

I've written about it in my books.

Normally, cells die. And when cells die, one of two things can happen. One is that the cell

literally explodes. And it's called apoptosis. Apoposis is really bad for you for multiple

reasons. I've written about this in multiple of my books. Among the other really bad things

about your cell exploding is the mitochondria in the cell also explode. And mitochondria, you mightacondria, you might recall, are actually containing bacterial DNA.

And your immune system views this mitochondrial DNA as bacteria and produces inflammation.

So cells dying by apoptosis is a bad thing. On the other hand,

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