Joy Kong, MD, explains follistatin-344, a naturally occurring protein that declines with age but varies widely between people. She frames it as a delivery platform for longevity applications, noting the 344 variant corresponds to a specific plasmid used in her work.
Follow. Statin was a very obvious natural choice because since it's a delivery platform, right, you can execute on whatever you want. You can put any code you want in there. You can put a code for like bpc, right? You know, anything you want. It was our launch product and the obvious reason was because it was very sought after in the longevity space, very relatively well researched for about a quarter century. So Follistatin is natural, naturally produced in the body? Yes, yes. Follistatin 344. The code that we have on our plasmid, that's a specific one. There's other older versions of Follistatin. This version of Follastatin exists in your body biologically, does that just decrease with age? I think the best answer is yes. But there is individual variability from individual to individual. Some people just have very little Follistatin, others have a higher baseline of Folletin their whole life.
