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jkarni | 3 years ago

This is coming from David Sinclair, who claimed resveratrol was the fountain of youth (it wasn't, but he still managed to sell his resveratrol company for hundreds of millions), and pushed rather hard also on NAD/NMN despite only very preliminary and limited results (he also has interests in NMN companies, and has been involved in removing it from the supplement market in favor of that company's right to market it as a drug). More likely than a cure for aging, Sinclair just found another cure for too few cars in his garage.

https://khn.org/news/a-fountain-of-youth-pill-sure-if-youre-...

https://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Article/2022/11/15/FDA-...

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jjallen|3 years ago

He also says this in the article:

“ This is the first study showing that we can have precise control of the biological age of a complex animal; that we can drive it forwards and backwards at will”

And the paper doesn’t show that at all. The paper does not show them reversing the aging of anything.

generalizations|3 years ago

I couldn't get access to the paper, but the abstract and the article both claimed they were able to reverse organ damage caused by the aging. Is that not backed up in the paper?

kaczordon|3 years ago

Idk why selling something you believe in disqualifies you as a scientist.

He’s also helped pioneer and make credible the entire field of aging research to reform people’s idea of how to look at aging.

Don’t be so cynical dude.

nradov|3 years ago

It's generally still not considered a credible field. Mostly hucksters and grifters.

k2xl|3 years ago

He is a professor at Harvard - I imagine he wouldn't get to that role if the science didn't have some merit.

Where did he ever say that resveratol was the fountain of youth? Interviews I've seen with him seem more reasonable then I always hear people make him out to be.

NMN does have some promising results based on recent studies- what do you mean he pushed hard? Where did he actually do that?

icelancer|3 years ago

>> He is a professor at Harvard - I imagine he wouldn't get to that role if the science didn't have some merit.

You should see what Huberman often shills and he's a prestigious professor as well.

Would also add that until recently - and by his own hand - Jordan Peterson was a professor at first Harvard, then the University of Toronto.