Millions of people are taking anti-ageing drugs every day – they just don’t know it. Drugs to slow ageing sound futuristic but they already exist in the form of relatively cheap medicines that have been used for other purposes for decades. Many pharmaceutical companies are joining the research on longevity drugs.
Rapamycin, also called sirolimus, drug characterized primarily by its ability to suppress the immune system, which led to its use in the prevention of transplant rejection. Rapamycin is produced by the soil bacterium Streptomyces hygroscopicus. The drug’s name comes from Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, where the compound was originally discovered in soil samples in the 1970s.
Everolimus is pronounced e-ve-ro-li-mus. It’s brand name is Afinitor. It is a biological therapy treatment for advanced kidney cancer that has come back either during or after treatment.
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Now something I also didn’t knew is that low-dose aspirin and statins are good and are widely taken by healthy people to reduce their risk of heart disease.
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