#162

Family medicine doctor prescribing metformin and rapamycin for longevity, pretty cool.

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#163

Well family medicine is one of my 4 board certifications. The most relevant is my Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine boards. Most of my practice has been Emergency Medicine. Anyway, having a diverse perspective on life and having done everything from delivering over 200 babies, to critical care in trauma centers - to now what is much more fascinating - Longevity Medicine … allows a thought process and understanding around life. The evidence is clear that if we can slow epigenetic aging, all the bad things that happen to humans will be delayed, giving years of additional quality life.

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#184

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#186

Very impressive, you have four board certifications:

  1. Family Medicine
  2. Emergency Medicine
  3. Anti-Aging
  4. Regenerative Medicine.
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#187

Do people actually still believe the New York Times is a reputable newspaper? They’re one of the worst perpetrators of fake news and propaganda out there

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#188

What in the rapamycin article do you find that is false or fake? Its always easy to be a critic.

The story was more conservative than I would have liked, but they didn’t get any facts wrong from what I could tell, and its reasonable to be cautious when you have an audience of 10 million people. All the articles that we’ve seen in the much-disparaged main stream media on rapamycin have been pretty accurate from what I can tell. All these mainstream providers do a reasonably good job of science reporting, which is more than can be said for many sources.

  1. Washington Post: How a cheap, generic drug became a darling of longevity enthusiasts
  2. Bloomberg BusinessWeek: O maior avanço na longevidade pode começar com a menopausa
  3. GQ Magazine: O segredo para uma vida mais longa já está disponível na farmácia local? (GQ)
  4. Guardian: Study suggests Rapamycin could extend women’s fertility by five years
  5. Irish Examiner: Rapamycin: Could a simple pill add years to your life? (Irish Examiner)
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#190

I think all major news sources are pretty good at reporting scientific news so long as there is no special interest and big money involved. I don’t see how anyone could benefit from Rapa (a generic drug) unless @RapAdmin is so loaded with cash that he goes around and pays millions$ to these major newspapers to advance the Rapa cause :joy::joy: so on this one, I think you are wrong @Elros

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#191

That’s far from true. I don’t know how anyone could say that with a straight face unless they have very limited news sources and even then… All newspapers, even NYT, have spin and are influenced by outside sources, usually financial pressure, to put extra emphasis on certain things - but that’s far different from fake news. Ever seen a tabloid? Or for propaganda, there’s plenty on both the far left and far right. We all need a filter to understand that all media has a bias but if you think that NYT is one of the “worst perpetrators” then your filter is not good.

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#192

Given their impact they have way more blood on their hands than other newspapers:

Their Pulitzer price for covering up the genocide of 4 million Ukrainians (Holodomor) is quite something…

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#193

All media has bias and makes mistakes, and The NYT because of it’s reach and readership may be more consequential when it’s misleading. BUT, when it comes to fact checking, to claim that the NYT publishes more fake news than most other news outlets - “They’re one of the worst perpetrators of fake news and propaganda out there” - I think is ridiculous and any of the major fact checking organizations would verify that there are far worse perpetrators out there. Maybe people think that the NYT is more accurate than it is - and the book posted looks good and points out glaring mistakes - but that’s because the NYT is highly respected. Compare it to the New York Post and see who is more accurate.

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#194

Most people know the New York Post is garbage (even its design suggests so). Their impact is not as big. The NYT under its respectable reputation is just the Pravda of the American elite, advancing their agenda and pretending to be neutral.

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#195

This isn’t the place to debate the overall views on different news organizations.

Its fine to focus on and deconstruct the accuracy of a given story about rapamycin (or other scientific topic) by a given writer, but now you’re veering off into the broad topic of media history, accuracy and bias - and I’m sure there are many places on the interwebs to discuss that issue, and since we all have our biases there is never going to be a single “right” answer.

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#196

But there is a single “wrong” answer…oops, I’ll shut up now…don’t want to get in a diplomatic spat…specially since there may be some New York Post reporters, lined up to interview @RapAdmin .

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#197

And now from FOX news:

Link:

Interest continues to grow.

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There are likely about 18,000+ Rapamycin Users in the USA Now
#198

Wow - this is the first time I’ve seen any numbers from the online prescribing companies like Daniel Tawfik’s Healthspan and AgelessRx:

Tawfik’s company currently treats more than 3,500 patients with rapamycin, he told Fox News Digital.

I think its likely there are 20,000+ people in the US now using rapamycin.

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#199

Nah it is much higher…Wouldn’t be surprised if the number is 20-fold since most people do things and quietly go about their business. However It would be interesting to know if different docs are prescribing it in different doses? I don’t think the dosing and frequency issues have been settled yet?

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#201

Here is how I arrive at this estimate… feel free to criticize and make other suggestions for improvements: There are likely about 18,000+ Rapamycin Users in the USA Now

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#202

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#203

And today’s list of publications covering rapamycin. It seems like we can expect a wave of additional press from other countries as these stories spread out and journalists in other countries are alerted to the longevity and health benefits of rapamycin:

Canada’s National Post:

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Full story here:

And, shocking (yes, shocking, I tell you) news from the National Post story :wink:

Canadians have succeeded in importing bubble packs of “rapa” into Canada from India and China, according to a “Longevity Drug Users Group” discussion forum, raising questions about purity or possible contaminants. There are other reports of people repackaging tablets from India into birthday card envelopes and mailing them to Canada from the U.S.

Unfortunately, the journalist didn’t check our threads on the tests on Indian product quality (which in Zydus and Biocon seem fine): Rapamycin / Sirolimus from India, Lab Test Report on Quality / Purity

and, in New York, The Sun: (ah, I see it was just the syndicated version of the Fox News story posted earlier)

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#204

All I can say is that I’m glad I have a 2-3 year supply in the freezer. :wink:

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