Had the incredible privilege of sitting down with award winning scientists at the University of Texas Barshop Age Institute. Here the Director Arlan Richardson explained the breakthrough leading work they are doing in Rapamycin. This compound has shown to extend the life of mammals by 1/3 more. Ok so Rapamycin comes from the bacteria found in the soil at Easter Island. Thus Rapa Nui. Wow.
These scientists that are creating stunning science with aging and it leads one to the question if we get to live longer what the hell will it mean for us. We don't want to be really dragging our bodies around and just barely conscious. At least let's have our last years still somewhat intact.
The point is we are on the frontier of making those last years more liveable. Our discoveries in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and ALS have the urgency for a treatment. Yes a cure. And we have clumped the idea of these diseases and dementia into one small pile. The idea is that we will be able to isolate and start to pre-treat these problems. That is the big hope of the use of Rapamycin by the Barshop institute. I found the conversation interesting that it changed from living forever to ...let's make our last years liveable.
So let's rally into the war on that is ravaging people that we love with the horror of dimentia.
And win this thing.
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