So recently I began reading Aubrey de Grey's book from 2008 on Ending Aging. Simultaneously I saw an ad/post on FB linked to a blog post (obviously an ad posing as an article on Scientific American about NR) which lead me to this site. I watched a more recent interview with Aubrey de Grey yesterday from 2015 (or the video was posted in 2015). He complained that funding was a problem and that the goal, were he to get significantly more funding, was to see a doubling in the lifespan of rats within 10 years.
Well... he makes no mention of this study from 2012 on C60. What is going on LOL?
In fact this rat study on C60 has gotten very little press and no one so far has tried to replicate it that I can find doing Google searches. Maybe I'm looking in all the wrong places, sorry if I am not looking hard enough.
You would think this would have been replicated at least 10 times now and be getting more press at least. Some guy in Japan claimed to synthesize stem cells and immediately 2 groups of students try replicating it everywhere, fail, and the guy commits suicide. Some guy doubles the lifespan of rats with Buckyballs in Olive Oil and nothing? WTF? I'm baffled. This is utterly baffling to me. Why is SENS not jumping all over this?
People are selling this stuff online for $60 per 100ml and nobody's even sure how good the oil is or what's in it. One guy's making claims that he's looking 20 years younger... I'm just a computer engineer and no biologist but that makes me wonder where the new collagen came from?
I'm tempted to begin trying it but at the same time, I only have so much to invest in myself, I'd like to spend it in the right places.
Edited by Nate-2004, 25 April 2016 - 09:31 PM.