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0 pointsamts2y ago0 comments

I heard about this anti-oxidant hype, so the original psilocybin study now seems a bit incomplete.

There are a ~dozen of studies on dasatinib (anti-cancer drug) + quercetin (senolytic) for curing osteoarthritis in humans, improving heart tissue etc, with dasatinib used as a senolytic. Navitoclax (anti-cancer drug) also used as senolytic in some studies.

In this context it seems that adverse effects from senolytics may be more pronounced in cancer-prone, in younger age or if taking them continuously (not like 5 days per month or so letting some senescent cells to emerge). Yet Sinclair's new venture TallyHealth, for example, are selling a 5 in one capsule, containing apart from other stuff 500 mg quercetin and 100 mg fisetin (senolytics) with an expectation of daily intake. And his 80y old dad is taking senolytics daily with still no cancer.

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dist-epoch2y ago· 1 in thread

> are selling a 5 in one capsule

As long as it's not known to be dangerous, people are free to experiment. But they should make it clear that there are no comprehensive studies showing an improvement, just speculation based on mechanics and some animal studies.

Another example is NAD+, people messing around with billion years old hyper-conserved mechanism (citric acid cycle). What could possibly go wrong, right?

amtsOP2y ago

Ion channels are also a hyper-conserved mechanism as every cell needs to maintain a resting potential, and there are tons of ion channel modulating drugs approved and used messing with the with billion years old hyper-conserved mechanism.

I heard about NAD+ on Dave Asprey podcast, that with age the NAD cleavage system cleaving NAD excess is also degraded and a Nuchido company makes this supplement with additives targeting NAD cleavage system restore as well.

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