MAO-B inhibitors apparently help memory and may extend lifespan.
I am more concerned with keeping my mind and memory intact.
There is plenty of evidence that age-related dementia is something that almost seems inevitable as we get older.
“Deprenyl (selegiline) is an irreversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase (MAO) B”
In any case, the life-extension studies that I could find are pretty weak.
But, I wonder if selegiline might be a good adjunct therapy to be used with rapamycin,
If I did, would I choose the dosage he uses? I wonder how he arrived at that dosage.
“The first longevity study demonstrating that rats treated with the MAO-B inhibitory
dose of (-)-deprenyl (0.25 mg/kg) lived significantly longer than their saline-treated peers was
published in 1988, and corroborated in many papers”
"A 2002 study found that selegiline increased median lifespan by 11-21% in male mice when administered starting at midlife. Selegiline did not increase maximum lifespan.
Multiple studies by Knoll et al. in the late 1980s and 1990s showed that selegiline increased average lifespan by 8-25% in rats when started in midlife. Effects were more pronounced in male rats.
“A 2012 study reported 9% and 14% increases in mean lifespan of male and female mice, respectively, when treated with selegiline from midlife.”
“The increases in maximum life span are important observations and strongly suggest that aging can be slowed down by selegiline”
Here are some of the very few papers that I could find regarding selegiline and lifespan
Links to the full articles:
https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/j.lfs.2016.10.023
https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/0024-3205(94)00396-3
https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/s0161-813x(03)00102-5