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Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

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As long as you can bear it. Which for me has been 24 +/- 4 hours between meals for 9 months and counting.

And what conditions did you cure with this regime? Did your overall calorie intake remain the same?

Benign tumors on my skin disappeared and I lost 80 pounds

Re: Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

#42

genuine question: why would someone want to live longer than the average? Edit: I ask because I personally don't see a reason to stay alive while people I love are dying, I don't see a reason to stay alive in an already fucked up planet, while we empty all the resources, etc. But you guys are so smart, intelligent and clever, why even bother.

It's generally not maximizing lifespan people are interested in but rather maximizing health span which is the period of time you are healthy and able to operate at a high level. If done correctly you die with minimum time spent disabled.

If you max health span, you're going to live longer.

If you die, you're probably not healthy to begin with, or you die to very sudden trauma.

Re: Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

#44

genuine question: why would someone want to live longer than the average? Edit: I ask because I personally don't see a reason to stay alive while people I love are dying, I don't see a reason to stay alive in an already fucked up planet, while we empty all the resources, etc. But you guys are so smart, intelligent and clever, why even bother.

It's funny to me that there is always someone that predictably asks this question because they can only imagine living longer while being unhealthy.

Re: Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

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How does one find a doctor willing to prescribe these kinds of drugs for anti aging?

I'm not taking Rapamycin due to costs and immune system concerns, but when researching this niche (specifically, I'm interested in senolytics) I have found this forum with this list of doctors https://age-reversal.net/physician-directory/

Maybe it could help you.

Re: Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

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the gist of it """ The scientists have tested different time windows of short-term drug administration in fruit flies and found that a brief window of 2 weeks of rapamycin treatment in young, adult flies protected them against age-related pathology in the intestine and extended their lives. A corresponding short time window, 3 months of treatment starting at 3 months of age in young, adult mice, had similar beneficia…

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Re: Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

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What's the latest on bloodboys? That is : periodic blood transfusion from healthy young vegan donor. It works very well. Rejuvenates ancient billionaires. Surely it's superpopular among the oligarchs. Probably not the kind of thing you want in the news (vampires!). The technical term is Parabiosis . These guys offer the service : https://www.ambrosiaplasma.com/

Every day we stray further from god's light

Re: Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

#48

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And what conditions did you cure with this regime? Did your overall calorie intake remain the same?

Benign tumors on my skin disappeared and I lost 80 pounds

https://c.tenor.com/rI48-HMbEaMAAAAC/spaceballs-lost.gif

Re: Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

#49
Dr. Peter Attia did a thorough summary several months ago of what we know about rapamycin as an anti-aging therapy. There are plausible reasons to think it might be safe and effective, but human studies are lacking. This is a promising area for future research.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama35/

Re: Rapamycin, drug used in cancer therapy, emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

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And what conditions did you cure with this regime? Did your overall calorie intake remain the same?

Benign tumors on my skin disappeared and I lost 80 pounds

What is your current height and weight? If I were to lose 80lbs I would become emaciated.
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