Wendy Zuckerman
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2,799 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2020
last heard 2 Jul
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Welcome back today on the show, Science vs. Peptides.
And the first thing you have to know is what on earth peptides are.
So peptides are short chains of amino acids strung together, and you can think of them as small proteins.
In fact, some scientists even call them microproteins.
There's thousands of peptides swimming in your body, and some do very important things, like insulin.
That is a peptide.
Another peptide?
GLP-1s, the blockbuster weight loss drugs.
They mimic an important peptide in our bodies that regulates blood sugar and helps make us feel full.
So peptides are real things in science.
But to know more about the current hype and what scientists are pumped about here, we need to meet this guy.
Hussie Cohen is a professor of gerontology at the University of Southern California.
And he thinks we are at the cusp of a revolution when it comes to peptides.
And to understand why, we need to go back to a time when perhaps you felt like you were personally victimized by Regina George.
Lose My Breath by Destiny's Child is playing on your MySpace page.
Maroon 5 isn't quite so irritating.
And the human genome has just been decoded.
That's right.
It's 2004.
An international team of researchers announces that after 13 years, they've found all the genes hidden in our DNA.
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