I ATE BUCKYBALLS FOR DINNER DELICIOUS
NOW I GET TO LIVE TWICE AS LONG!
All C-60 fullerene treated rats survived to at least 59 months, with the oldest surviving to 66 months. The control group lived for periods ranging from 17 months to 37 months, Source: Gizmag.
The prolongation of the lifespan of rats by
repeated oral administration of [60] fullerene“Countless studies showed that [60] fullerene (C60) and derivatives could have many potential biomedical applications. However, while several independent research groups showed that C60 has no acute or subacute toxicity in various experimental models, more than 25 years after its discovery the in vivo fate and the chronic effects of this fullerene remain unknown. If the potential of C60 and derivatives in the biomedical field have to be fulfilled these issues must be addressed. Here we show that oral administration of C60 dissolved in olive oil (0.8 mg/ml) at reiterated doses (1.7 mg/kg of body weight) to rats not only does not entail chronic toxicity but it almost doubles their lifespan. The effects of C60-olive oil solutions in an experimental model of CCl4 intoxication in rat strongly suggest that the effect on lifespan is mainly due to the attenuation of age-associated increases in oxidative stress. Pharmacokinetic studies show that dissolved C60 is absorbed by the gastro-intestinal tract and eliminated in a few tens of hours. These results of importance in the fields of medicine and toxicology should open the way for the many possible and waited for- biomedical applications of C60 including cancer therapy, neurodegenerative disorders, and ageing.” Quote Source: extremelongevity.net.
All fullerenes are susceptible to clumping when dissolved in oil, so the preparation of the olive-oil/C-60 solution is rather lengthy. In these tests, 50 mg of C-60 buckyballs were added to 10 ml of virgin olive oil. These were stirred for two weeks at ambient temperatures with no incident light. Following the stirring, the solutions were centrifuged at 5,000 g for an hour. The fluid was separated from the precipitate, and was then passed through a 0.25 micron filter. The resulting liquid contained 0.8 mg/ml of C-60 buckyballs. Source Gizmag
Buckyballs are 500 times stronger than steel
Buckypaper is made from carbon nanotubes
about 1/50,000th the diameter of a human hair.
Buckypaper owes its name to Buckminsterfullerene, or Carbon 60
a type of carbon molecule whose powerful atomic bonds make it twice as hard as a diamond.
Sir Harold Kroto, now a professor and scientist with FSU’s department of chemistry and biochemistry, and two other scientists shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, nicknamed “buckyballs” for the molecules’ spherical shape.
Ben Wang, a professor of industrial engineering at the Florida A&M University-FSU College of Engineering, serves as director of FAC2T, which works to develop new, high-performance composite materials, as well as technologies for producing them at University of Florida
The prolongation of the lifespan of rats by repeated oral administration of [60]
fullerene
Tarek Baati a,b, Fanchon Bourasset c, Najla Gharbi d, Leila Njim b, Manef Abderrabba e,
Abdelhamid Kerkeni b, Henri Szwarc d, Fathi Moussa d,*
aUMR CNRS 8612, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Sud XI, Rue J-B Clément-F92296, Châtenay-Malabry, France
b Unité Elements Trace et Antioxydants, Laboratoire de Biophysique and Service d’anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, CHU de Médecine de Monastir, 5000, Tunisie
c Barrières Physiologiques et Réponses Thérapeutiques (EA 4123), Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Paris Sud XI, Rue J-B Clément-F92296, Châtenay-Malabry, France
d Laboratoire d’Etude des Techniques et Instruments d’Analyse Moléculaire, GCAPS, EA 4041, IUT d’Orsay, Université Paris Sud XI, Plateau de Moulon, 91400 Orsay, France
e Unité de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, Ipest, Université de Carthage, 2070 Carthage, Tunisie
What I fear will happen is that in the US, the good OLD FDA will stifle real world in vivo use of buckballs/ fullerenes…just as it has hampered transfer of cellular product- based therapies (stem cell or other) to the bedside….and has all but halted use of EMF-based therapies……