My Current Stack:
Current compound list. I’ve been trying to take only compounds whose effects I can reliably measure for my needs :
I take rapamycin in cycles now, and when I ran my cycle earlier in the year, my dose was about 6mg for a week for about 4 weeks. My next cycle will probably be in 1 year.
You take a single dose of 25mg of enclomiphene, once per week - is that what you’re saying. So, a pultatile dosing strategy similar to how most of us do with rapamycin? I’ve not heard of this with enclomaphene.
Incidentally, on Enclomiphene, I checked for acceptable suppliers from India for this, and this is what I found. I’m going to try the EN-Clofert by Maneesh Pharmaceuticals Ltd to see if it works. We’ve had reports in the past from people on the forum that they actually ship regular comiphene. We’ll see…
[enclomiphene tablets]
Option 1: EN-Clofert by Maneesh Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Option 2: Enos by Eskag Pharma Pvt Ltd
[enclomiphene tablets]
Yes, it’s not that far off from my previous dose, which was 37.5mg per week, broken over 3 days. That dose put my levels around 1000 ng/dL. My new dose is a third less, and once a week. That should still keep me in the 600-800 range.
If you do get it from India , get it tested for enclomiphene citrate, and don’t trust the label. I know many cases of people ordering this from India, and ending with clomiphene citrate after testing.
Yes - I was thinking of just doing a blood test pre/post to see if the encomiphene works as advertised. Much cheaper and faster than getting an analytical chemistry lab to test them. By the way, here are rough prices from Indian suppliers: Enclofert 50 - 50$ / 100 tablets
I’m a little confused by your dosing strategy. Enclomiphene has a half-life of 10 hours, so its going to be almost entirely out of your system after a few days… why do you think that once / week dosing would be effective?
Because I was in range with lower dosage.
Both will elevate testosterone levels, so a check for that will be useless. You’ll need to look at E2 (sensitive test ), as clomiphene citrate elevates E2 levels for much longer than enclomiphene does. Use your favorite Ai for more markers.
Hmmm… no Lithium orotate?
I am always examining my supplement list based on perceived and measurable results.
I am not against large stacks per se, but there doesn’t seem to be much to recommend them, and frankly, I am getting sick of the timing and procedures involved in taking large stacks.
Our stacks will vary depending on such things as age and what we are trying to accomplish. At my age, I focus mainly on preventing sarcopenia and dementia.
So, I asked two of my favorite paid AIs, Perplexity Pro and Claude Opus 4.7. What some of the more prominent credentialed health and longevity specialists often mentioned in Rapamycin News are taking themselves. The following are excerpts from the responses. Some of the bold type is added by me.
Perplexity Pro:
Here’s a practical, source-based estimate: the better-known credentialed health influencers in this group tend to take roughly 5 to 15 supplements each, with many clustering around the 6 to 10 range, depending on whether you count only daily items or also occasional/considered items. The number is highest for Andrew Huberman, moderate for Matt Kaeberlein and Mike Lustgarten, and relatively low for Gil Carvalho based on publicly visible evidence.
Claude Opus 4.7:
The range is enormous — roughly 2 to 40+ — and it correlates inversely with how rigorously the individual demands human RCT evidence before acting. Lustgarten, Carvalho, and Kaeberlein are the most skeptical and take the fewest; Sinclair and Johnson the most. Kaeberlein has explicitly criticized large stacks on the grounds that combinatorial effects are more likely negative than synergistic, and he and Lustgarten both publicly reject several of Sinclair’s cornerstone compounds (NMN, resveratrol).
Norwitz is the awkward data point — his December 2025 full stack letter is paywalled on Substack, so his exact count isn’t public. From free content he’s clearly positive on creatine, phospholipid/lyso-DHA-bound omega-3 (krill oil) driven by his ApoE4/4 genotype, and nattokinase; full list would require a paid subscription.
(Why I know longer watch him unlike most of the others mentioned he wants direct payment for his knowledge)
A caveat on sources: most “daily stack” lists on aggregator sites (fastlifehacks, jinfiniti, etc.) are compiled from podcast mentions over many months, so they often inflate counts by including things the person took once or has since dropped. Kaeberlein’s end-of-2025 Optispan update and Huberman’s June 2024 Rhonda Patrick interview are the closest things to primary-source snapshots. Sinclair’s June 2025 Diamandis interview is the most recent direct statement for him.
Finally — and this is probably most relevant to how you’re thinking about your own regimen — the credentialed skeptics (Kaeberlein, Lustgarten, Carvalho) explicitly describe the 15–40 supplement stacks as a category error, and their own practice looks much more like the biomarker-driven, add-one-change-at-a-time approach you already use.
When Kaeberlein, Lustgarten, and Carvalho criticize large stacks, they’re not saying “15 is too many, 5 is fine.” They’re saying the entire framework of building a stack is wrong. Specifically:
The framework assumption is additive: each supplement has an expected benefit B_i, so total benefit = ΣB_i, minus some manageable interaction cost. Under this model, adding more supplements with positive EV is always good (or at worst neutral).
The critique is that this model is wrong in at least three ways that make counting the wrong activity entirely:
So the “category error” framing is: asking “how many supplements should I take?” is like asking "how many random prescription drugs should I take?" The number isn’t the relevant variable. The relevant variables are (a) do you have a measured deficiency or a biomarker-validated target, (b) is there human RCT evidence of benefit at the dose you’re using, and (c) are you isolating it enough to know if it’s working. If those three conditions are met, the correct number happens to be whatever number results — often small. If they’re not met, the correct number is zero, regardless of how compelling the mechanistic story sounds.
If someone wanted one rule that would catch most of the above, it’s the one Kaeberlein and Lustgarten both articulate: change one thing, retest, decide, then change the next one. The kitchen-sink user and the one-change-at-a-time user can end up on identical final stacks, but only the second one actually knows whether each item is doing anything, and can drop the ones that aren’t. The first one is just paying rent on pills.
I have lithium orotate on order right now. Thanks!
Also forgot to mention creatine as a daily one too. 
@desertshores I enjoyed reading your post.
I’m taking way too many things but I feel so good, I am always afraid to fix what isn’t broken… but I couldn’t help myself and did give up my t3 for a month… WHOA that was an epic mistake… I’m back on it and starting to come out of the woods.
Today Opus told me I could probably give up my l threonate… that is one down!
Another of many considerations in stack building is receptor site conflicts. Broadly, I don’t think it makes any more sense to count components in a stack than it makes to count the number of foodstuffs you consume. Of course scope and magnitude of effect, up and downside risk, potentiation and negation, and more needs to be considered but my read of some admonitions against stacks is that they confound the possibility of inferring causality. They do, but being possessed of a finite lifespan might trump that concern for some people.
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Why * Escitalopram (10mg)?
@RapAdmin What are the popular stacks in Silicon Valley these days? I know young people there are doing a lot of peptides. Wonder if anyone well-known are still on the rapamycin train …
On a related note, this is posted on X by Dr Brad Stanfield:
Our Rapamycin & Exercise clinical trial has just been published! The topline result? Rapamycin didn’t help. Instead, it may have made things worse. Here’s what we found 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jcsm.70274
