already known to be safe interventions, like vitamin D
Any pointers on what to search to find more info on this from actual research? I wasn’t aware that vitamin D was considered to have anti-aging properties, or that there was much consensus on its safety.
It is safe enough to be sold OTC, and there are some research which connects with life extension effects. The real problem is that we don’t have human tests of its effects on longevity, despite its widespread use. The first study like this will be TAME, which will explore life extension properties of metformin. There are several reasons why such studies are difficult to perform. Firstly, they are costly, but known safe things are non-patentable. Secondly, they need to be very long., and long human studies are especially costly.
Any pointers on what to search to find more info on this from actual research? I wasn’t aware that vitamin D was considered to have anti-aging properties, or that there was much consensus on its safety.
For a good summary video on vitamin D and aging, I recommend this. For academic papers and other articles, I recommend this, this and this.
For information on personal longevity strategies, I recommend the following:
- Watching videos by Dr Rhonda Patrick, Dr Peter Attia and Dave Asprey
- Joining Facebook biohacking groups such as this, and this.
- Joining the Lifespan discord server and reading comments on the ‘personal longevity strategies’ channel.
It is safe enough to be sold OTC, and there are some research which connects with life extension effects. The real problem is that we don’t have human tests of its effects on longevity, despite its widespread use. The first study like this will be TAME, which will explore life extension properties of metformin. There are several reasons why such studies are difficult to perform. Firstly, they are costly, but known safe things are non-patentable. Secondly, they need to be very long., and long human studies are especially costly.