HEALTH BENEFITS OF C60 IN HUMANS
The rat study showed that C60 nearly doubles rat’s lives, perhaps by simply preventing them from getting cancer or infectious diseases, but a mice study mentioned elsewhere on this site shows that something more is going on: Old mouse brains get rejuvenated when the mice take C60. They suddenly perform as well as the brains of three months old mice, when remembering the layout of a maze and learning to navigate it. So there may be some subtle noticeable effects on the human organism. We cannot (yet) dismiss reports of certain beneficial effects such as placebo; we have to keep an open mind.
Longecity.org is a forum for people interested in life extension and dozens of people have been pioneers in taking C60 in extra virgin olive oil.
Longecity forum members have reported the following beneficial effects (only effects reported by more than one person are listed):
Professor Fathi Moussa, principal author of the C60 rat study, says that C60 prevents oxidative stress (that is quite an understatement – as their research shows, C60 fully protects against highly hepatotoxic chemicals that would otherwise kill in hours), for Prof. Moussa’s statement on that see this.
Dr. Moussa has no commercial interest in C60 and holds no C60 patents or C60-related shares.
C60 could become interesting for athletes and in medicine, protecting against the effects of aging such as cancer and immune system deficiencies It will take a long time to find out what this product does for humans. We think it may prolong life in humans as well as in rats because the C60 in oil becomes a lipofullerene and is available in the mitochondrial lipid bilayers where it acts as a recyclable super-antioxidant (C60 is a 270 times better antioxidant than vitamin C but vit. C is not lipid-soluble and neither is it recyclable, so C60 may in fact be tens of thousands of times more effective as an antioxidant than vitamin C). In fact it is in a different league altogether than all the other, “conventional” antioxidants ever researched.
People are already buying C60 and dissolving it at home in olive oil and taking it and they’re already claiming beneficial effects. (Broken link due to censorship explained in the moved thread here). Here is another thread on home experiments with C60, note how it is explicitly forbidden to mention any positive effects and note that many postings mentioning such effects by long time posters have been deleted! Reporting the results of your own longevity experiment with small rodents is explicitly prohibited too, which shows a clear censorship agenda on Longecity.
REFERENCES
Baggott, Jim. Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). [Baggott observes that “the tendency for the closed-cage carbon molecules to burn, degrade, or become entrapped prevents the detection of naturally occurring fullerenes. Imagine the surprise, then, when it was announced in July 1992 that C60 and C70 had been found in samples of shungite, a coal-like rock from Shunga, a Russian town some 200 miles northeast of St. Petersburg. (pp. 254-55).]
Becker, L., Bada, J. L., Winans, R. E., Hunt, J., Bunch, T. E., and B. M. French. “Fullerenes in the 1.85-billion-year-old Sudbury Impact Structure.” Science, 265 (1994): 642-644.
Longecity.org is a forum for people interested in life extension and dozens of people have been pioneers in taking C60 in extra virgin olive oil.
Longecity forum members have reported the following beneficial effects (only effects reported by more than one person are listed):
- More energy
- Less sleep needed
- “Mental improvements”
- Can lift much heavier weights, sometimes to the point of causing tendon injury. Commonly reported.
- Can do more reps of the same weight. This was the most commonly reported benefit. People were adamant that there was a great difference, comparable to taking Creatine and that not even anabolic steroids enabled such an immediate increase of both repetitions and max. weight.
- Calmer, reduction in stress
- Can run longer with seemingly more effective utilization of Oxygen. Less fatigue. “Cardiac improvements”. Better stamina and endurance.
- Can run faster whilst feeling more comfortable with a pulse that would normally be too high for steady-state.
- Higher libido. This is also seen in rat trials, already with 4 micrograms/kg, a dose five times lower than what we recommend as a daily dose.
- Faster recovery of the skin after sunburn (with topical application). Do not expose C60 products to UV light – it splits off reactive Oxygen species under UV.
Professor Fathi Moussa, principal author of the C60 rat study, says that C60 prevents oxidative stress (that is quite an understatement – as their research shows, C60 fully protects against highly hepatotoxic chemicals that would otherwise kill in hours), for Prof. Moussa’s statement on that see this.
Dr. Moussa has no commercial interest in C60 and holds no C60 patents or C60-related shares.
C60 could become interesting for athletes and in medicine, protecting against the effects of aging such as cancer and immune system deficiencies It will take a long time to find out what this product does for humans. We think it may prolong life in humans as well as in rats because the C60 in oil becomes a lipofullerene and is available in the mitochondrial lipid bilayers where it acts as a recyclable super-antioxidant (C60 is a 270 times better antioxidant than vitamin C but vit. C is not lipid-soluble and neither is it recyclable, so C60 may in fact be tens of thousands of times more effective as an antioxidant than vitamin C). In fact it is in a different league altogether than all the other, “conventional” antioxidants ever researched.
People are already buying C60 and dissolving it at home in olive oil and taking it and they’re already claiming beneficial effects. (Broken link due to censorship explained in the moved thread here). Here is another thread on home experiments with C60, note how it is explicitly forbidden to mention any positive effects and note that many postings mentioning such effects by long time posters have been deleted! Reporting the results of your own longevity experiment with small rodents is explicitly prohibited too, which shows a clear censorship agenda on Longecity.
REFERENCES
Baggott, Jim. Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). [Baggott observes that “the tendency for the closed-cage carbon molecules to burn, degrade, or become entrapped prevents the detection of naturally occurring fullerenes. Imagine the surprise, then, when it was announced in July 1992 that C60 and C70 had been found in samples of shungite, a coal-like rock from Shunga, a Russian town some 200 miles northeast of St. Petersburg. (pp. 254-55).]
Becker, L., Bada, J. L., Winans, R. E., Hunt, J., Bunch, T. E., and B. M. French. “Fullerenes in the 1.85-billion-year-old Sudbury Impact Structure.” Science, 265 (1994): 642-644.
