This is really barking up the wrong tree. The Japanese experiment using corn oil was a slurry that was briefly sonicated. The c60 never had much time to fully react with the corn oil, although it's probable that some fatty acid adduct was formed, though not much. It's not sufficient to say that "no biological effect occurred", because they didn't look for them, other than gross observations like "they didn't die", they didn't lose weight, and their histology was normal. It was a short term tox test only, so all we can say was that the small amount of c60 that was actually absorbed wasn't toxic. We know that c60 reacts with ethyl oleate, a pure oleic acid ester. In fact, it is more soluble in ethyl oleate than in olive oil. This suggests that the chlorophyll in olive oil is not required for solubility, and demonstrates that c60 reacts with unsaturated hydrocarbons, as has been described in the literature on multiple occasions.
BTW, I strongly advise against supplementing iron (or copper) unless you are clearly deficient. These are distinctly bad for you in any excess.
Thanks very much for pointing out the fallacy in cross-referencing the Japanese study, however it still makes me question why no c60 showed up in the liver of the rats in the japanese study yet showed up in the french study after 7 days of administration at a much smaller dose, surely a brief sonification would bind some c60?
https://www.jstage.j..._2_353/_article
"Using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, fullerene C60 were not detected in the liver, spleen or kidney at the end of the administration period and also at the end of the recovery period."
So if c60 binds to dna regardless of chlorophyll which seems to be the case (not ruling out chlorophyll just yet as a method of getting there), are the effects beneficial (repairing) or negative (recycling?) for dna?
This simulation seems to imply that there is an effect on dna despite lack of chlorophyll.
http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/16183879
"C60 binds to single-strand DNA and deforms the nucleotides significantly"
If the effects on rna were similar (not sure why it wouldn't be) this should have an impact on protein synthesis and lack of overall protein synthesis seems to always extend the lifespan.
But the effects on double stranded dna are the most interesting. In the study it shows simulations of how c60 interacts with DNA, honestly don't know what to make of it. Could either damage DNA or correct faulty DNA, or even correct faulty dna by damaging it or do nothing at all (unlikely).
Also, I definitely agree on iron/copper supplementation. I personally am taking iron supplements but would recommend multiple tests to accurately gauge iron deficiency, though I rarely practice what I preach. Will be trialling it for only a couple of months due to a study on ferritin levels and alopecia (both men and women displayed lower ferritin levels than what i presume the study termed as healthy controls to just be people with no hair loss), if that is due to lack of iron or synthesis of apoferritin is unknown but here is the study for anybody interested.
http://www.ncbi.nlm....78013/table/T1/
Edited by Greg Cornes, 06 March 2016 - 09:03 AM.