/blog/en/tags/igf-1/Recent content in IGF-1 on 飛脚 / HIKYAKUHugoenWed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000/blog/en/posts/mtor-balance/Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000/blog/en/posts/mtor-balance/<p>Health advice often sounds self-contradictory.</p> <p>&ldquo;Eat plenty of protein. Otherwise you&rsquo;ll lose muscle.&rdquo; &ldquo;No — fast. Everyone who lives long does.&rdquo;</p> <p>Both are correct, from a certain angle. But without knowing the cellular mechanism that holds both truths, it becomes impossible to know what to do today.</p> <p>The molecule that sits between those two truths is called <strong>mTOR</strong>.</p> <h2 id="mtor--the-direction-a-cell-faces">mTOR — the direction a cell faces</h2> <p>mTOR stands for <strong>mechanistic Target of Rapamycin</strong>. It was identified in the 1990s as the protein that binds rapamycin — an antibiotic isolated from the soil of Easter Island.</p>