A new video update on Dr. Stanfield’s Rapamycin for Aging Muscle clinical trial. He seems to not yet have much traction on the funding, with only $30,000 of the required $350,000+ committed. I hope he’s able to get more support on this. We need many more clinical trials on Rapamycin:
NEW VIDEO - Update On My #Rapamycin & Exercise Study - Full cost breakdown - The plan to fundraise the rest Thank you to Professor Kaeberlein @mkaeberlein for supervising the creation of the study protocol
I have my reservations on this guy. He seems to be more interested earning commission on the supplement’s he is promoting. And the supplement companies he stand behind is the most expensive and speculative ones out there in the market place.
I had some communication with Dr. Stanfield today - he indicates that in 3 months we will have the results of this trial. Also @KiwiGuy born in Dunedin … NZ citizen – I envy you living in N.Z.
@DrFraser Dunedin is a lovely part of the country! I was down that way recently - visiting Invercargill and walking the Hump Ridge Track. Absolutely stunning!
Cool! I don’t follow this guy at all, and the video in the first post seems to be private. Is there anywhere a description of what this trial is actually investigating? Matt K seems to say something about muscle mass. Is it an interventional trial?
My understanding is giving a modest dose of Rapamycin weekly to elderly individuals vs. placebo. Then having them exercise (I think a stationary bicycle) for a number of minutes/week. The theory is improvement in lean body mass for those on Rapamycin. I do not believe dosage is adjusted by weight or gender and testing for levels isn’t being done. I might be wrong, but I recall it was 5 mg/week - so lower dose than what I’d generally use.
On the topic of Dr. Brad, he just released a Microvitamin+ powder that includes extra things like creatine, collagen, psyllium husk, taurine, etc. so I just got some. Tastes good in my morning smoothie.
Stanfield is presenting the results of his Rapamycin trial in Switzerland in September. However from the tone of the video, it appears the results are positive.
We’ve come a long way since Brad said (in March) that he would discuss the results “next week”…
Does anybody here have a way to contact him and ask what’s happening? My guess is no significant difference in a way that doesn’t really tell us anything, or it’s bad news.
People wonder how it is possible for Chinese biotech companies to go from discovery to commercialization of medically active molecules in one tenth of the time it takes for such a process in the West. How can the West lose in this race so badly? Well, here’s part of the answer. Glacial pace of peer review, writeups, and publication. Each step taking ten times longer than it should. I’m sure Brad has a perfectly reasoned explanation that makes sense in this research environment, but which nonetheless results in absurd delays and stagnation.
We need competition in this space. This is why far from fearing Chinese competition, I welcome it. Competition is good. With no competition, we get stagnation. This is as true of automobiles as of biotech or anything else.
As is, we get to twirl our thumbs and smile mirthlessly, while one absurd deadline passes after another. Meanwhile time marches on relentlessly, not slowed down one bit by silly or serious excuses. YMMV.
Yeah, I got on his discord too because I use his microvitamin + powder and he did recently say that it’s undergoing peer review. He does seem to give subtle hints that the results are good though.
