Dr. Elizabeth Yurth discusses spermidine, a supplement that triggers autophagy without fasting. Research shows it improves cognitive function and brain volume, with studies tracking changes in hippocampal health.
Bulletproof radio, a state of high performance. One of the really nice things about Spermidine Life is if you look at all the studies and there are so many studies coming up now. I mean, think there, you know, since 2020 alone right now, I can think of, you know, offhand about 10 different studies. You know, there's still three ongoing from 2019, long, short term studies following. There's a Smart Age study that's still continuing looking at brain health. So there are so many studies now on this supplement. You know, I would say venture to say more than a lot of supplements that are out there. So people are really getting this on their radar. So we have a lot of data now upcoming, which is nice because we can really look at things now and say, okay, but most of the companies that are doing, or most of the researchers who are doing these studies are using this Spermidine Life product, which says a lot, right, that this is what they've chosen as their research supplement is this product itself. So that's encouraging and makes you feel a little bit better about it that this is the one they're coming to. This is what they're going to. The Smart Age study, which started in 2017. So that was even early, right? That was before you and I could get it. Well, you could. I couldn't. So 2017 Smart Age study took, I think it's 100 people who had subjective cognitive impairment. So people who nobody said were cognitively declining, but the people themselves felt like they would and they've been following them. Now I think the study just completed or is about to complete. I think November of 2020, it's just about to complete. So they've been following them for three years. And what they're seeing is significant improvements in every level of testing on just this one, you know, 1, 1 gram, 1.2 gram daily of, you know, dose of the spermidine. So in another study that just came out on brain health, it was published this month, that actually measured volume, so brain volume and hippocampal volume and showed substantial improvement after just six weeks of sperm.
That's nuts. Because hippocampal shrinkage is a major problem as we age. And it's one of the markers I track on myself. I'm at the 87th percentile for my age, so I'm holding on to my hippocampus as I age. But six weeks to increase hippocampal size is nuts. I did not know about that. Was that humans or mice?
That was on human studies. That was brain image on human studies. Okay, and they'll follow that along. They'll probably continue to get further improvement as time goes on. But again, when they looked at curves of lifespan and the polyamina intake, if you started early, you could just not lose yours. You and I, who started later in life taking spermidine, we've lost some time, but you can see people regaining. So we're regaining years simply by taking this supplement. And there's really not a lot of supplements out there that have shown that.
There's almost none for hemocampal volume. I've never seen one, have you?
No.
That's like the realm of hyperbaric and stuff, if you're going to do that.
There are some peptides, I think, that maybe have shown some improvement, but they're more difficult to obtain. So this is something that's so easy and so safe. And again, we're relatively new to it. We've only been using. We've only been able to get it for, I don't know, a few months now.
It's brand new.
