Study Finds: Drug typically used in cancer therapy emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

[cesces]

Stud

y Finds: Drug typically used in cancer therapy emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy

Rapamycin is a cell growth inhibitor and immunosuppressant that people normally take while undergoing cancer treatment or after receiving an organ transplant.

A team from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, however, notes that the drug is also a promising anti-aging formula.

Studies involving animals have found that low doses of rapamycin can extend life by preventing age-related changes in the intestines. Until now, however, scientists have looked at this drug as something patients would need to take for the rest of their lives.

Study Finds: Drug typically used in cancer therapy emerges as powerful anti-aging remedy.

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[cesces]

Thanks.

It sort of sucks that it's an immunosuppressant though.

Does that concern you at all?

[Scott1963]

Thanks for your compendium. I have been taking Rapamycin for a year. I dose 20 mg every two weeks. Feeling great. BPH doesn't give me any trouble now. We'll see how my PSA isnext month.

[cesces in reply to Scott1963]

Rapamycin reduces blood pressure?

[MateoBeach in reply to Scott1963]

That’s a pretty high dose and possibly in immunosuppressive territory. Low dose such as 2 or 3 mg once weekly showed improved immune response, not immunosuppression in elderly adults response to influenza vaccine. I take 3mg weekly.

[cesces in reply to MateoBeach]

Thanks

Very interesting

[Scott1963]

5% of the population has an infection. Immediatelytake a Zithromax.

[Medline]

Aspirin was the most potent life-extension agent when data for all model organisms was combined, more so than rapamycin or metformin.

link.springer.com/article/1...

[cesces in reply to Medline]

"We found that, when data from all organisms studied were combined for each compound, aspirin resulted in the highest percent increase in average lifespan (52.01%),

followed by minocycline (27.30%),

N-acetyl cysteine (17.93%), nordihydroguaiaretic acid (17.65%)

and rapamycin (15.66%), in average.

We showed that minocycline led to the highest percent increase in average lifespan among other compounds, in both

Drosophila melanogaster (28.09%) and

Caenorhabditis elegans (26.67%),

followed by curcumin (11.29%) and

gluconic acid (5.51%) for D. melanogaster

and by metformin (26.56%),

resveratrol (15.82%) and

quercetin (9.58%) for C. elegans."

So very interesting

[Purple-Bike]

If you take Casodex to avoid resistance to rapa, would you mind telling dose and frequency?

[Purple-Bike]

Thanks. I had some wbc lowering after low-dose rapa, but it may have been co-incidental and will restart. Will aim for one mg plus two grape fruits = 3mg weekly.

[GeorgeGlass]

who prescribes this for you? Do they say it is for general health, or to fight cancer?