NMN, NR, Resveratrol, Metformin & Other Longevity Molecules | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #4

Welcome to the Lifespan podcast, where we discuss the science of aging and how to be healthier at any stage of life. I'm David Sinclair. I'm a professor at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Aging Research. And I'm joined today by my lovely co-author and co-host Matthew LaPlante.

Hey. How are you doing? Good to be back at it again. We are. We're here today to talk about how to live longer and better. As part of this podcast series, we deep dive into the things you can do to slow, stop, and reverse aging. That is true. And today is going to be a

really interesting one. This is going to be the one that everybody I mean, this is the one that everybody's been begging for. That is true. We've been monitoring the responses to tweets and Instagram posts, and most of them are, "David, just tell us what to take." The nice ones. Yeah. Some of those aren't very nice, either,

but yeah. People are Please, please, please, should I take NR? Should I take NMN? What should I do with Metformin? We're going to be talking about all of that today. We are. Uh and our our research team has been spending weeks on this, and if you can't see, I'm actually sitting in front of many pages of notes here.

We're going to go deep dive into what is fact and what is not fact, what is known, what is not known, because there's so much misinformation out there, especially with supplements. Yeah. Um we do need to say We usually take a moment to thank our sponsors. We're going to do that, of course, but

we also have to take a moment to say we are not medical doctors. We are not medical doctors. We are not medical doctors. What he said. Uh I'm a PhD. I'm a researcher. I can read the literature. I've been doing it for the last 30 years. I distill that for everybody. But, of course, if you want to try a