Sestrin Proteins are Required to Gain the Benefits of Exercise
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Greetings Friends,
This week, I came upon a study that proposes to have found a certain set of evolutionarily conserved proteins that mediate how our body responds and adapts to exercise training.
These proteins are known as Sestrins -- small proteins that are found throughout the animal kingdom (we have them, and so do flies and mice). Sestrins are sai…
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