Dr. David Sinclair
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There's a whole bunch of them.
Resveratrol, fisetin, quercetin, there's hundreds.
This one has anthocyanidins, that's the color.
These activate these adversity responses in our cells.
The sirtuins will get activated by molecules in this blueberry.
Yeah, it's like a free hack, right?
You can eat something that's yummy, but you're also getting the benefits by mimicking fasting and exercise in your food as well.
The sirtuins don't just need NAD.
That's the gas pedal.
That's the petrol for those of you in the British world and Commonwealth.
The fuel for sirtuins is NAD.
The accelerator pedal are the polyphenols in fruits and vegetables like resveratrol, quercetin, which we know when you give them to sirtuins, they get hyperactivated.
Because that's an easy way to remember how to eat foods that have the most polyphenols.
I'll give you a really good example, Stephen.
Serena put me onto green tea matcha.
So matcha tea, if you haven't tried it, I'm sure you've tried it.
But those of you who haven't tried it, I highly recommend it.
It tastes great.
The reason for it switching from coffee mainly to matcha in the morning for me is that it's full of polyphenols.
Why is it full of polyphenols?