Newest Fountain of Youth

Baylor did a study on the supplement called GlyNAC (combination of glycine and N-acetylcystine) that has shown improvements in aging. Basically comes down to helping the mitochondria within the cells function better.

Worth looking into. But until then, always best to eat better and get your a$$ off the couch more.

https://www.bcm.edu/news/glynac-supplementation-reverses-agi…

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Along those lines, a recent Tim Ferris podcast featured Dr. Matt Kaeberlein, who is director of the University of Washington Healthy Aging and Longevity Research Institute. The whole podcast goes into a lot of detail, and I don’t want to summarize too much and lose context, but to frame the issue of aging
Dr. Kaeberlein makes a point to differentiate lifespan and healthspan, the latter being the part of your life span when you can actively engage in life. For most people, increasing healthspan is more important than increasing lifespan.

That said, Dr. Kaeberlein is researching drugs not that only appear to prevent aging, they might even be able to reverse some aspects of aging and increase healthspan. A candidate drug is rapamycin, normally used as an transplant anti-rejection drug which has been shown to reserve some indications of age in mice. There are some other promising candidates as well. Interestingly, some drugs are gender specific usually benefiting males.

Dr. Kaeberlein currently conducting a large scale study of rapamycin in pet dogs.

https://www.newscientist.com/definition/rapamycin/

Rapamycin in mice:

https://www.dentistrytoday.com/rapamycin-fights-gum-disease-…

Dog aging project

https://dogagingproject.org/

https://tim.blog/2022/07/27/matt-kaeberlein-life-extension/

P.S. Until then, always best to eat better and get your a$$ off the couch more.

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