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Post by scumbuster on Sept 25, 2023 10:31:59 GMT -5
Rapamycin: potential longevity benefits, surge in popularity, unanswered questions, and more
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Post by wildstubby on Sept 25, 2023 11:24:39 GMT -5
I'm not a pharma-scientist, nor do I play one on TV, but reading the ≥20% side effects I don't think I would engage in the process. I like the uniqueness that it was discovered on Easter Island but then many of our medicines are found that way. Avermectin, (anti-parasitic), was found on a Japanese golf course, Hyzaar/Cozaar, (hypertension), comes from the venom of the Saw-tooth viper, Elspar, (anti-leukemia enzyme), comes from a protein found in a strain of E-coli and Colchicine, (anti-gout) is derived from the bulb of the autumn crocus since 1500B.C.!
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Post by scumbuster on Sept 25, 2023 12:51:01 GMT -5
wildstubby The side effect studies were based on transplant patients that were also taking other hazardous drugs. They also explained in this video that transplant patients also got a much higher dose of Rapamycin than typically given for longevity and immune response. I have been taking it for about 5 years and really wonder if I would be in as great shape as I am if I was not taking it. As for side effects, all I have experienced was occasional canker sore in the first 6 months of taking it. This is the main side effect, which I think is minor. After about 6 months I rarely get one now. Maybe 1 time a year. I started with a low dose in the beginning and slowly increased to my current dose. I figured if I did show any sign of a side effect, I would stop taking it. I now take 7 mg 1 time a week. Really, I feel like I am about 45 years old and I just turned 67. I am sold on it and will take it the rest of my life. There are literally 10s of thousands if not hundreds of thousands currently taking it, and at least 2 of the 3 doctors in this talk have been taking it long term, which I think is telling. I am not sure if the one doctor is taking it, but 2 have indicated they have been taking if for a long while. Of course, I am not advising anyone to take it. Just my experience. Rapamycin in the US is still quite expensive even though its now a generic drug, but I found a good supplier outside the US.. Not China.. LOL I would not buy any drug manufactured in China.
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Post by wildstubby on Sept 25, 2023 19:41:40 GMT -5
scumbuster said: Good luck with that! If the medicine isn't made in China or India then the API's are made there. Funny thing we were told at a townhall meeting that the Chinese don't like generics, they like name brand! The 'Big Teal Hourglass' would preach to us about quality but would buy crappy API's. We would have to make a silk purse from a pig's ear! They didn't care as long as their ledgers showed they were saving money, that was all that mattered!
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