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I'm 35, have been taking 6mg of rapamycin per week for about a year. It's hard to assign the effects directly to it since I've been taking other supplements and also fixing up my diet + exercise. That being said, I am quite sure that it has reduced general aches and pains, reduced visceral fat and I now have less gray hair compared to when I started. It did slightly increase my glucose and lipids, but still within safe ranges AFAICT. I'll continue to take it until I notice real adverse effects.



This comment is quintessential to the issue with HN.

So you are quite young, just had a complete change of lifestyle and your take away is that the beneficial effect comes from the drug you take randomly amongst a cocktail of other things.

Interesting.


It was not a "complete change" in lifestyle. Please don't make assumptions beyond what is written.


> fixing up my diet + exercise

That’s definitely a complete change in lifestyle. Sorry but not sorry.


I now have less gray hair compared to when I started.

I've never taken rapamycin nor even heard of it before today. I have less gray hair than I had twenty years ago.

My understanding is that gray hair suggests a B vitamin deficiency, especially PABA, and a need for adrenal support.


I have less gray hair today than 5 years ago - I think that’s pretty easy for aging men to achieve. ;)


I'm a woman and not going bald if that's the joke you are making.




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