Your Cellular Power Plants Are Shutting Down — And You Don't Even Know
How NAD+ depletion flips mitochondria from energy engines into aging accelerators: a 2025 npj review pinpoints why cellular power plants quit pulling their weight.
Open →How NAD+ depletion flips mitochondria from energy engines into aging accelerators: a 2025 npj review pinpoints why cellular power plants quit pulling their weight.
Open →Picture a city. Every building needs electricity. When the power grid starts failing, you don't just lose the lights — hospitals shut down, water treatment stop
Open →Seven longevity genes evolved over a billion years sit idle without NAD+. Imai and Guarente's classic npj review on why sirtuins need fuel to extend lifespan.
Open →By 50 you have half the NAD+ you had at 20. Imai's NAD World 3.0 framework in npj Aging cracks the cellular supply chain behind mammalian aging and the pause button.
Open →Your DNA takes over 10,000 oxidative hits per day. NLRP10 is the fire alarm that keeps that damage from cascading into cancer. Researchers just mapped exactly how it detects double-strand breaks — and what happens when it goes silent.
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