The Longevity Drugs

Picture a healthy man of 48 who gets rapamycin from an online clinic after a ten-minute video call. He takes it every Sunday. He has no idea what his cholesterol or blood sugar has done since. He tells me he is “playing the long game.” He may turn out to be right. He is also a volunteer in an experiment with no control group, no monitoring, and no one writing down the results.

Clinical scenes in this edition are explicitly labeled illustrations. They describe imagined situations used to explain medical decisions, not documented patients, diagnoses, conversations, or treatment outcomes. They should not be read as evidence that a particular intervention works. Personal recollections are recollections, not medical records.