Rapamycin, every mention
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every year anyone Kristen Fortney 7Elad Gil 1Dr. Eric Topol 1
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7 More Healthy Years: What We Can Learn from Super Agers
- ▶ 1:40 Dr. Eric Topol You know, they wanted me to write a prescription for alpamycin, or order a total body MRI.
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a16z Podcast | The Science Of Extending Life
- ▶ 13:33 Kristen Fortney So, so, you know, basically zero, even though they've only tested 30, there's already been one success rapamycin that came out of that, which, which is a very exciting discovery. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:29 Kristen Fortney So I think there are going to be other repomycins, other metformins that become available in the next few years.
Extending Human Lifespan
- ▶ 3:47 Kristen Fortney And just by luck, they found that this drug, rapamycin, which was produced by one of the bacteria there, um, was really sort of bioactive and did all sorts of interesting things. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:32 Kristen Fortney So as I mentioned, there are drugs targeting senescence, metformin, and there are drugs targeting rapamycin being tested in clinical trials now.