The Skin Benefits of Topical Rapamycin

Name: The Skin Benefits of Topical Rapamycin
Uploaded: 2025-01-01T17:00:21+00:00
Duration: 38 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "The Skin Benefits of Topical…

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This content was created by Dr. Charles Mok. This content was uploaded by Dr. Charles Mok. This is a YouTube video titled "The Skin Benefits of Topical Rapamycin" (created 2025-01-01). It contains a single-speaker monologue describing clinical experience using topical rapamycin since 2021: originally an oral drug for transplant rejection and a topical for rare pediatric tumors, but at much lower doses it appears to improve skin aging—brightening, smaller pores, fewer brown spots, reduced redness, and improved elasticity/texture. The speaker characterizes the treatment as underutilized and recommends broader use.

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Since 2021.

About two to four weeks.

Increased brightness, decreased pore size, fewer brown spots, reduced redness, and improved elasticity/texture.

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So there's an oral form of rapamycin that's used for organ transplant rejection, and there's a skin form that's used for a type of rare tumor that occurs in children. But we're finding that it improves the quality of the skin in people without tumors at a much lower dose and improves the age of the skin. So we've been using this in our clinic since 2021, I believe. And what we're seeing is after about two to four weeks, we see brightness of the skin, less pore sizes decrease, brown spots decrease redness, and better elasticity and texture to the skin. It's really underutilized. I think everybody should be on this medication.