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Metformin

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4 creators

Glucose lowering for longevity, taken 1 gram daily

"Metformin requires a prescription. That's a type two diabetes drug. Relatively safe as a medicine. We take a gram a day of that."

David Sinclair

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"If I take metformin or the natural equivalent which is berberine... Taking it every other day, I think is better."

David Sinclair

"The doctor in Bloomington just put me on metformin. If it was up to me, I'd put the entire United States on metformin and a statin because the fucking food we eat is terrible."

John Mellencamp

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Statins

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3 creators

Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease; early LDL lowering

"I then went on to start medical school. I took niacin in med school. As soon as statins became available, I started taking a statin. My brother did not take statins until much later, and at age 44 has bypass surgery and very significant coronary disease. So..."

Michael Davidson

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Cholesterol management with credible evidence base

"I take statins, I take ezetimibe, various interventions where there's very credible evidence that they move the needle."

Steve Horvath

"I've actually been on a statin to lower my LDL since I was 30... I insisted with my doctor initially with statins."

David Sinclair

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Tadalafil

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3 creators

Improving blood flow to muscles, brain, and hair follicles; dementia prevention; potential cancer-protective immune modulation

"I take Cialis — tadalafil — every morning, a low dose. I do that because in 2012 we published a paper that showed that one of the most pernicious causes of aging is low blood flow, and we could reverse that with NMN through SIRT1 — more blood flow. I take t..."

David Sinclair

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Prostate health, increasing androgen receptor density, reducing nocturia to improve sleep and growth hormone/testosterone optimization, mild blood pressure reduction

"Tadalafil is a very underrated medication. It increases the density of the androgen receptor similarly to L-carnitine. Another benefit is that if you give it to people with nocturia, which is urinating at night in general, it will cut the episodes in half, ..."

Kyle Gillett

Prostate health and brain vasodilation for men over 40

"Low dose, like 2.5 to 5 mg per day, is very helpful for perfusion of the prostate. And also, it causes vasodilation in the brain. Our chair of male sexual health and urology at Stanford, Mike Eisenberg, he came on the podcast and he said pretty much every m..."

Andrew Huberman

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Niacin

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1 creator

Reducing LP(a) levels for cardiovascular health - half gram dosage

"I'm also taking half a gram of niacin, vitamin B3, these days because I have high levels of something that everybody should measure called LP parenthesis little A."

David Sinclair

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"I'm taking high-dose vitamin B3 or niacin... I'm taking half a gram. Some people take a gram. And that's one of the few things that's been known to bring down the levels of LP little A."

David Sinclair

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