Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Cynthia Thurlow | How Health Changes With Age

23 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A short video/transcript excerpt (speaker A) discussing how physiological changes with aging affect immune function, bone health, gut integrity, and sex hormone production. The speaker emphasizes the role of the gut microbiome in producing peptides (endogenous GLP-1 and GIP), and notes that misalignment in these systems can impair satiety and metabolic regulation.

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This is something that you and I did not learn about in our training initially, because it wasn't even a thing. Helping people understand, like, what is changing as we're getting older, and how that impacts immune function, bone health, how that impacts leaky gut, how that impacts sex hormone production. Because it goes without saying, when you start to understand and dismantle that a gut microbiome is responsible for so much, including endogenous GLP1 production. So we GLP1 agonists are very popular right now, rightfully so. But we actually make GLP1 and GIP these two different peptides. We make them in our body. And so when things are not properly aligned in the body, it makes it harder for us to be satiated, makes it harder for us to turn off the. You know, there's the tidy mechanisms.