January 2018 - Dr. Hannah Sivak, PhD

NAD+ is so important; don’t forget it when you take care of your skin!

January 29th, 2018 by Dr. Hannah Sivak

Note: as usual, please feel free to skip stuff as you wish. There is a lot of “jargon” below. Do you remember the stories about sirtuins, resveratrol and the “French paradox”? Sirtuins are proteins with a very important role in the cell: they control the enzyme that converts acetate, a source of calories, into acetyl CoA, a key point of entry to cellular respiration. Because of this crucial role, it has been proposed that it may be possible to control age-related disorders in various organisms, and in humans. These disorders include obesity, metabolic syndrome, type II diabetes mellitus, Parkinson’s disease and the “ultimate disorder”: aging. What is the French paradox?…