Does Rapamycin Increase Longevity?

Name: Does Rapamycin Increase Longevity?
Uploaded: 2025-01-03T13:00:39+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok examines whether rapamycin extends human lifespan, covering current clinical dosing trials like 1 mg daily or 5-10 mg weekly. Some…

3 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok examines whether rapamycin extends human lifespan, covering current clinical dosing trials like 1 mg daily or 5-10 mg weekly. Some doctors are already taking it off-label to boost healthspan, though running lifespan studies in humans remains difficult.

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1 mg per day; 5 mg per week; 10 mg per week.

They require enrolling people expected to die within about 10 years (or a percentage who will) and following them for roughly 10 years.

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Now, the studies in humans, this check on lifespan, these are studies that are hard to do because you have to enroll people that are going to die in the next 10 years, or some percentage of them will die in the next 10 years and follow people for 10 years. So there is a study right now going on. They're putting people on oral rapamycin, various doses, a milligram a day, 5 milligrams a week, 10 milligrams a week, and control to see what dose is the most effective for the presumed longevity that will occur. And longevity should go along with improved and lengthened health span, not just living longer. And so that that's going. And I know a lot of doctors taking that themselves to expand their health span.