One friend in Canada spoke to his doctor about rapamycin and the doctor (a GP) said that it was not something he could even prescribe, that because it was only approved for transplants in Canada (not sure if thats exactly true or not, but he could have been generalizing) that it could only prescribed by specialists. So, this could also be an issue.
Part of the other issue is that doctors generaly don’t like prescribing drugs to healthy people (which is what you are really doing with rapamycin)…
But yet - the ability to do “off-label” prescribing seems much more restricted in Canada. I’m not sure of the rules and regulations around it.
Some info I found…
Off-label prescribing is not prohibited in Canada. It occurs in every specialty of medicine, but it may be more common in areas of medicine in which the patient population is less likely to be included in clinical trials. For example, specific drugs have been used off-label for rare or difficult-to-study disorders or a cancer drug that has received approval for a specific type and stage of cancer may prove to be suitable for additional oncological purposes. Source: BEWARE: off-label prescription drug use | McGill University Health Centre
The other issue is the pharmacists. From personal experience, there many who will overstep themselves and question the patient about the script and what it’s for. Even though they aren’t qualified to make those decisions, nor is it any of their business what the medical condition of the patient is, they can be a source of complaints against the physician. So there can be some potential trouble for the physician even though it’s supposed to be a private interaction between the physician and patient.
Yes, this rings true, but my Doc did tell me that insurance was the problem in my case, not the college. He did refer me to a specialist, (gerontologist) but they weren’t even aware of Rapamycin as an anti-aging treatment. So it sounds like it will take a while, but all this communication adds up.
The only insurance issue would be if you were looking to have the drug covered by some extended health insurance. OHIP would only cover the drug for transplant patients and your drug plan wouldn’t cover it for anti aging. Your physician could write the script but you’d be paying out of pocket.
So I’ve had my package delayed from Medkoo in North Carolina, I suspect I will never see it if customs decides to hold on to it. What happens from here, have people had similar issues and what basically happens…
To be clear, I was referring to the doctor’s malpractice insurance, which was an obstacle to the doc prescribing Rapa off-label. He was willing to do so otherwise.
I did one order of 180 tabs of rapamycin. The other order was some LDN and other things. Box about the same size. Had both in hand in about two weeks from ordering.
Yes, but it’s not clear to me why that is an issue in Canada, while it’s not a problem in the US, which is generally considered to be more litigious. Maybe Dr Green set a key precedent by being first to do it, and took a risk in order to help people.
It’s because the professional conduct is overseen by a regulatory college. A committee of physicians that work for the college will decide on complaints issued to the college. Those physicians are typically under informed and heavily biased in their opinions. It is the weakest in the profession that ends up in government and teaching institutions because they can’t survive in private practice. We saw many examples of this during the pandemic where major decisions were made by under qualified people on government and it resulted in a lot of rules that made no sense. Eg. Wearing your mask to your dinner table and then going maskless for your meal. If this group of physicians is under informed about rapamycin, which they are certain to be, then their ruling will be against the prescribing physician.
Medikoo also sells Emerimide, known as OSR or NBMI. It is an oral heavy metal chelator with an ORAC antioxidant score of 199k, an order of magnitude more powerful than Acai.
When I was a teenager, I got a job at a steel fabricating shop spraying lead paint. Being a teenager, I didn’t use enough protection and so I had very high lead levels.
I took 300 mg of a day of OSR for 4 months and I went from the 99th percentile of Mercury on a DMSA 24-hour urine test to low normal. I was disappointed the post OSR lab test didn’t report percentiles.
Since it’s a good antioxidant as well as a chelator, I’ll take it again. I’d like to see my lead levels go lower…
Hi Noneyah, welcome to the forums. Can you clarify a bit… when you say “didn’t work” do you mean customs stopped the shipment, or that you got the medications but they didn’t “work” for you?