Rapamycin seems to boost longevity as effectively as eating less

13 pointsposted 18 hours ago
by Teever

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lerp-io

13 hours ago

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.