Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

The Aging Hallmark No One Talks About

20 Nov 2025 · 0 min

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Living longer doesn't mean living better. Mona Sharma and a guest explore why sleep, exercise, diet, and fasting matter for healthy aging, then dig into how stem cells maintain proteostasis, the cellular balance that breaks down as we age.

We're aware that we're living longer, but we're not necessarily living well longer. And you're touching on basics, you know, sleep optimization and recovery, HIIT training, moving our body, moving away from the sedentary lifestyle that most of us have adopted, optimizing our diet. I can imagine fasting, too. Does autophagy have anything to do with stem cells?
The stem cells are making protein. They are. Proteostasis is one of the hallmarks of aging, a loss of proteostasis. Proteostasis means the ability of the body or cells to maintain protein balance. And stem cells do an extraordinary job way, way better than any other cell in the body at maintaining proteostasis or protein balance.