Sestrin Proteins are Required to Gain the Benefits of Exercise

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…