Dr Brian Kennedy – Validating Aging Interventions and Why Rapamycin is the Gold Standard

Just recently posted, recorded at the Gstaad Longevity investor Conference: https://www.longevityinvestors.ch

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I watched the video and followed a link to a site with an article by Kennedy. Apparently he is working with the government of Singapore. First they will be testing exercise and some supplement interventions. But, he hopes to be testing rapamycin on people soon. It would be great if some large scale tests with people are done soon.

The article is here

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Yes - I spoke with Max Unfried who works in his Lab (based in Singapore) at the recent San Francisco Longevity meetup. Max thought that the rapamycin study that Brian Kennedy is doing will be starting in early 2023, will consist of about 80 people, and will be 6 months long (they are looking at a large battery of biomarkers and blood tests to look for physiological improvements).

If results are as positive as I expect, I suppose that then there would be larger trials to follow.

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New interview with Brian Kennedy:

One thing he mentions is that he, personally, takes sub-lingual NAD, and he says it raises NAD levels in blood. Whether it also raises it in cells is yet to be determined.

Addendum: Oh, one other thing he did say was that he now uses a lot of language model AIs in his work. 1 hour, 1 minute in he says:

I never thought I would say this… half my lab is AI now. So, we’re doing a lot of drug screening – sort of in silico – looking at large language models and interrogating [for] drugs that might affect longevity. We’re doing that with peptides now.

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