Heat Shock Protein
[My sources for much of this article are a 2018 review from University of Campinas, Brazil and a 2016 review on hormesis by Joan Smith Sonneborn, as well as the ever-inspiring and accessible summaries by Rhonda Patrick.]
Most animals have the latent ability to live longer when stressed. It’s called hormesis, and it’s a major clue concerning the nature and evolutionary provenance of aging. The body compensates when stressed—that’s no surprise—but the remarkable thing is that it overcompensates so that, paradoxically, stress ends up by lengthening lifespan. Sometimes.
One of the prime responses to stress at the cellular level is Heat
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