I’m a pretty experimental kinda guy, but I think I want a TON more info on this before considering it a viable option. :-)
Like most modern medicines, are side effect worth taking?
Traditional side effects of Rapamycin in transplant patients include:
Hypercholesterolemia
Hypokalemia
Anemia
Thrombocytopenic disorder
Hypertension
Hypertriglyceridemia
Constipation
Kidney disease with reduction in GFR
Urinary tract infection
Acne vulgaris
Arthralgia
Pain
Fever
Skin rash
Peripheral edema
Headache disorder
Nausea
Diarrhea
Acute abdominal pain
Edema
...you don’t need to take it again.
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Great. Fruit flies that remain juvenile? Immortal fruit flies?
Too late for me and that’s ok.
I knew I’d heard of this drug from my studies of autism:
Earlier treatment could help reverse autistic-like behavior in tuberous sclerosis
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181009155116.htm
Something about mTor (mammalian target of rapamycin) and oxidative stress.
So how would human trials go? Give the drug to 200 people in their 20’s and then wait for 60+ years to see if it worked? That oughta be comical.
There are definitely issues with longer-term or higher dose use of rapamycin, though.
I know some people have gotten this to help with longevity, due to other studies on it, but I believe there are better options that have no effective side effects, that can help in a similar way.
Revelation 9.6: And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
Just saying
Now a substance is invented to extend life into real old age.
Which is to be believed? I am confused.
I do not trust pharma enough to try it.
I’ll wait for the mouse studies but rapamycin blocks mTOR a known carcinogen pathway; a good thing. However fasting and a low protein diet does similar.
Cherry the fruit, is supposed to do the same as this drug, without the side affects.