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What is the role of protein aggregation in aging? What other factors are responsible for aging?
In a thread on cataracts i posted some info from Ray about lanosterol, a fungal sterol, and i will just quote it here for informational purposes:
In a thread on cataracts i posted some info from Ray about lanosterol, a fungal sterol, and i will just quote it here for informational purposes:
So if lanosterol can reverse cataracts, what else can it do? Would it be plausible, for ex., that it could target cross-linking throughout the body or on the skin? Does anyone know of other substances that reverse protein aggregation?In Ray's Sept 2015 newsletter on mushrooms, and also in an interview with Danny Roddy, Ray has mentioned that lanosterol, a fungal sterol, can reverse protein aggregation. IIUC in the newsletter he also mentions that trehalose, a fungal sugar, can stabilize cells and help prevent protein aggregation. From reading a very limited amount about making mushroom extracts, it seems to me that lanosterol would have to be extracted with alcohol, whereas trehalose would be extracted with water. (I could be wrong, i know nothing about extraction!! Could someone who knows something chime in here please??)
I have never used lanosterol or trehalose in the eyes, but i am currently putting a little trehalose in my coffee, and it tastes pretty much like sugar but less sweet. I have seen lanosterol eye drops for dogs online. Here is a segment of an herb doctor interview (on Steiner schools, actually. Could not find the date but iirc it was within the last year or so), transcript thanks to www.l-i-g-h-t.com. (I disagree with Sarah here when she mentions boiling mushrooms for lanosterol, as I mentioned above.)
ANDREW MURRAY: Well, I know we do only have a few moments left, but I do want to ask you, Dr. Peat – and, again, this is – it ties into education, it ties into research, it ties into suppression of research. And this is the latest findings of a product called lanosterol and its use in the treatment in the very real treatment of cataracts without surgery and is extremely inexpensive and it works. So what do you think about lanosterol and eye cataracts?
RAY PEAT: I was just a little surprised to see a big publication in Nature. And this group, at the University of California, San Diego, was actually reversing the majority in something like half a dozen rabbits, and then dogs. Both using eye-drops and injecting it directly into the eyeball. They actually got established cataracts to clear up. And when i wrote a newsletter about cataracts, a couple of years ago, i noticed that research in treating and curing cataracts had been suppressed because of the immense amount of money there is in removing the lens during cataract surgery; it’s a multi-million dollars business.
And that money interest had just wiped out practically all curative research in eye studies.
ANDREW MURRAY: Interesting.
So we’ll keep our eyes open for lanosterol any other future publications and, hopefully, it doesn’t get suppressed and buried in the future, so that’s something to keep an eye out for Mushrooms happen to be a good source
of that steroid.
ANDREW MURRAY: Okay. And you said it was a precursor to cholesterol.
RAY PEAT: Yeah.
It’s preceding the – the polymer that cyclizes that forms lanosterol and that turns into cholesterol.
SARAH JOHANNESSEN MURRAY: So boil your mushrooms for 45 minutes to an hour and make a yummy winter soup.
ANDREW MURRAY: And don’t think of cholesterol as a bad thing because it’s not. Okay. Well, thank you so much for your time, Dr. Peat.