Rapamycin as a Universal Anti-Aging Drug
The side effects of rapamycin. Self-experimentation with the anti-aging drug continues to be strongly discouraged.
This is the third and final video in this series. If you missed the previous ones, check out The Enzyme mTOR as an Engine of Aging ( ) and Inhibiting mTOR with Rapamycin for Extending Lifespan and Healthspan ( ).
So, how do you suppress mTOR without taking drugs? I have a whole chapter on it in How Not to Age ( ). (All proceeds I receive from the book are donated directly to charity.) For a teaser, check out these past videos that touch on it: Prevent Cancer from Going on TOR ( ) and Caloric Restriction vs. Animal-Protein Restriction ( ).
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i strongly disagree with the conclusion of the video, the dosage of rapamycin for aging purposes is incredibly lower then what the drug use at for other condition… the benefits are there on the long run not the shorter one and as it is also said in the video there are NO major side effects… i would also like to remind that in clinical trial they report basically any effect the patient report related or not to the drug… we definetly need more human clinical trials!
What about its use for periodontal disease?
This drug could be one of the biggest medical discoveries in a long time. It really needs a lot more human studies and money putting into it. Where are all the billionaires that supposedly care about charity, THIS is what they should be funding. If rapamycin was available at low cost worldwide it would massively improve health, reduce aging and reduce cancer. But we need a lot more and bigger studies on it.
Rapamycin is cheap and generic. Why are you attacking billionaires? This is a nutrition channel not a political one for your Marxism.
less drugs more nutrition, we really need to prevent and not fix other people mistakes or carelessness.
Bryan Johnson needs to throw some of his Daddy Warbucks sugar at this to figure it out!
@@yoginasser305 he just quit rapamycin.
There are transgender mice as well?!
no no, transgenic! Modified to make sure they’ll get Alzheimer, I suppose?
Maybe they’ve done transgender mice as well though lol. to study hormone therapy and whatnot.
Thank you!
Do billionaires who live to be over 100 take rapamycin?
they take replacement organs and are on dozen drugs. but they aren’t healthy
Blackberries and blue berries and cardio exercise with beat Rapamycin any day. Ride a bike!
Yep