A Harvard-Trained Doctor’s Top 5 Anti-Aging Supplements

An aging research aficionado, Dr. Josh Helman, shares five supplements that can help fight the effects of aging: nitric oxide, NMN, honokiol, modified citrus pectin, and creatine.

(Harvard-trained aging expert, Dr. Josh Helman | Jupiter Medical Center)

Harvard-trained aging expert Dr. Josh Helman unveils his top five supplements to fight against aging.

Aging &amp; Longevity

Discover proven anti-aging and longevity drugs that extend lifespan. Lifestyle, nutrition, sleep, exercise, and toxin avoidance, all in the best and most comprehensive guide.

Explore the most effective longevity interventions—nutrition, fasting, sleep, exercise, and mouse-tested drugs that extend lifespan in real studies.

Longevity Prescription: Diet, Fasting, and Proven Anti-Aging Strategies

Participants: healthy adults between the ages of 50 and 81
Dosage: 5 mg/week or 10 mg/week of rapamycin

One of the most potent anti-aging compounds rapamycin — an FDA-approved drug that inhibits mTOR — increases the lean body mass of older women while reducing their pain. 


Senior investigator Sajad Zalzala, MD (image: cnbc.com)

Clinical Trials

Model: 40 aged patients with COPD with an average age of 71.9 
Dosage: One gram of NR taken twice daily for a total of two grams per day for six weeks

Fresh Insights: NR’s Effects on Inflammation in Age-Related Lung Disease

Taking nicotinamide riboside (NR) is tied to a 52.6% reduction of an inflammatory protein in the sputum—mucus coughed up from the respiratory tract—of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

(Principal investigator Dr. Morten Scheibye-Knudsen, Associate Professor from the University of Copenhagen | Videnskab DK)

Model: 16-month-old female C57BL/6 mice 
Dosage: 60 mg/kg/day of ABT-263 dissolved in drinking water for 7 days on, 7 days off, and 7 days on again

A senolytic compound and anti-cancer drug called ABT-263 accelerates ovarian aging in aged mice, suggesting it promotes infertility. 

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A Harvard-Trained Doctor’s Top 5 Anti-Aging Supplements

Longevity Prescription

Anti-Aging Drug Rapamycin Increases Muscle and Reduces Pain: New Results

Fresh Insights: NR’s Effects on Inflammation in Age-Related Lung Disease

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