First national review of anti-aging compounds. rapamycin shows greatest longevity effect

From Avi Roy. I like Avi Roy’s images he’s creating… and some good summaries:

After 20 years and 54 compounds tested across 30,000+ mice,

@NIHAging

NIA 's Interventions Testing Program (ITP) published its most important finding. It’s not about which drug won. It’s about who it works for. Rapamycin + acarbose: 34% median lifespan increase in males. 28% in females. The largest effect the program has ever recorded. Better than either drug alone. But here’s the pattern nobody’s discussing: 12 of 13 life-extending compounds in the ITP worked primarily in males. Rapamycin is the single exception. The only longevity compound that works better in females. We’ve spent two decades testing longevity drugs in both sexes. The answer was staring back the whole time: longevity pharmacology has a sex problem.

Source: https://x.com/agingroy/status/2034279851318784317?s=20

7 Drugs. 30,000 Mice. 20 Years. The Only Longevity Compounds With Real Evidence.

https://x.com/agingroy/status/2034354838419509688?s=20

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Thank you for doing that tabulation.

I thought the original Astaxanthin results were better than Glycine? Did they just throw those out?

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He only included the first set of results from a few years ago for some reason

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I don’t know why Taurine was not included in this list. This large study was funded largely by NIH and has 46 authors from around the world. It shows: “The median life span of taurine-treated mice increased by 10 to 12%, and life expectancy at 28 months increased by about 18 to 25%.” From 2023.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn9257

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