Ask A Genius 885: Gavin Joiner
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/02/04
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: So, this is Gavin Joiner. Feedback to www.rickrosner.org gavjoiner@gmail.com
“What supplements or nootropics do you take now? I’m taking four 4-chloro Modafinil Phosphatidylserine and a few fish oils here and there, but I want your take on what I should or shouldn’t be taking. The reason for why I ask is because you take 38 pills or at least had.”
Rick Rosner: Yeah. So. I’m not taking anything from the Finil family, Modafinil or whatever; there are a bunch of different finals. I have been taking them for a while, and I don’t take any of them because I’m just lazy. If you want, there’s an old list of my supplements. If you just Google Rick Rosner vitamins, their articles list what I took 8-10 years ago. Five years ago, because I’m a hypochondriac, I had them do an ultrasound of my abdomen, and they found a little tumour in my kidney, cancerous, stage 1A. Since then, I’ve been a little lazy. Then they took it out, and I get scanned every six months to a year; I haven’t had a relapse recurrence, but since all the crap I was taking didn’t stop me from getting cancer, I’ve been a little bit more relaxed about it. I still take probably 40 pills a day.
The one pill I quit taking is Astragalus, which is supposed to lengthen your telomeres maybe, but you don’t want that if you’ve had cancer because cancer is a state of cells that don’t stop reproducing. You want your good cells to keep reproducing, and you don’t want to reach the Hayflick limit for your cells, so you have old cells that can’t reproduce. At the same time, you don’t want to have bad cancerous cells that are immortal. So, I quit taking Astragalus, which probably didn’t do anything anyway. I quit taking Methylene blue, which just seemed like a long shot to be of benefit and is just heavy duty in that; I mean, it makes your piss blue. It’s a super durable die, and I’ve decided that that’s probably the potential benefits which are unclear, are probably outweighed by the bad shit it could do.
The only nootropic that I know works is coffee. I drink a lot of coffee, which helps me stay awake throughout the day. I didn’t start drinking coffee till about 10-12 years ago, and until then, I would fall asleep even at work every day at 3 p.m. So, I recommend coffee. A new drug I’ve added to my routine is Fisetin, which is a senolytic, which means it helps your body and prompts your body to eliminate old fucked cells. One reason older adults are so crunchy and full of inflammation is that their bodies lose the ability to scrap tapped-out crappy cells. So, I take a bunch of that about three times a week. I think it seems pretty effective. Once I started taking it, I didn’t have to get up in the middle of the night to piss it off. It seemed to help my prostate gland, and a supplement rarely has discernable effects, but I think that Fisetin gave me a healthier prostate, though who knows, I don’t know.
I buy vitamins from Vitacost for all the regular stuff because Vitacost is pretty inexpensive, and they run sales all the time. Then, for the more designer stuff, I go to Life Extension. Like, I’ll take regular Fisetin, but it gets absorbed in your stomach and then goes to your liver, and your liver eliminates it. So it doesn’t get through your digestive tract. So, I’ll take some regular Fisetin because it’s cheap. Then I’ll take fancy Fisetin from Life Extension, which makes a supplement last longer and deeper into your digestive tract, which means it’s more absorbable for the reasons you want it to be absorbed. They’ll take the substance, and they’ll coat it in lipids in fat and coated. That way, it doesn’t get absorbed in your stomach. It makes it far into your small intestine, and more of it is bioavailable. So, I take fancy, more expensive Fisetin from Life Extension and cheap Fisetin from Vitacost cost and ditto for Curcumin, which is, I think, a pretty good drug for reducing inflammation.
Any of these drugs you can Google and see all the things they’re purported to do and see if there have been any legit studies. Curcumin seems to help prevent a lot of different stuff, and then it’s a prescription drug, but it’s widely prescribed as Metformin, which is another thing that reduces inflammation. You want to keep inflammation down, and modern diets and just living a long time generate a lot of inflammation. You want to floss your teeth so your gums aren’t all inflamed from plaque. So, there you go. That’s what I take.
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