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Rapamycin seems to boost longevity as effectively as eating less (newscientist.com)
16 points by Teever 7 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


there are bunch of other proteins that inhibit mtor besides rapamycin which also regulate other stuff, one of them is AMPK which downregulated by ATP (energy levels) so when level is low it will inhibit mtor (which is what rapamycin does) which is effectively not eating.




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