Kaufmann Protocol Analysis
Dr. Sandra Kaufman, an MD anesthesiologist with an interest in aging, wrote a 2017 book entitled The Kaufmann Protocol: Why We Age and How to Stop It, in which she describes her approach to anti-aging and provides a qualitative method of assessing the effectiveness of various anti-aging supplements. In particular, she defines seven "tenets", i.e., physiological issues that need to be addressed in combating the negative effects of aging, and gives each supplement a score of 0 to 3 as a measure of its effectiveness in each of these categories. On the Kaufmann Protocol website, a list of possible supplements and their scores is provided, and I have captured these values to use in my spreadsheet.
I was curious as to how I am doing with the supplements I'm presently taking daily, in terms of the Kaufmann Protocols, so I made a spreadsheet. It can be downloaded from this LINK. It sums the Kaufmann scores of the supplements you are presently taking and provides a net score.
In the blue "Taking?" column, you simply put a "1" indicating the supplements you are taking (while leaving the others blank), and the spreadsheet will calculate your Kaufmann Score. As indicated by my 1s in the spreadsheet , my current score is 80, which is pretty good.
I note that three supplements that I am interested in (fisetin, rapamycin, and dasatinib) were not on her list, so I estimated the Kaufmann scores for these, as indicated by "JGC Estimates". The dose values in the spreadsheet are mostly those listed in the book.
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Some have had problems accessing my Kaufmann Protocol spreadsheet from DropBox. Here's an alternative link on the MS Cloud:
https://1drv.ms/x/s!Ap3rYYlMocgZgYgySEGElib0GZrwNA?e=IxrT3t
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If you are taking alpha lipoic acid for brain mitochondrial protection you may want to combine it with acetyl-L-carnitine. Check out this link.
Combined R-α–lipoic acid and acetyl-L-carnitine exerts efficient preventative effects in a cellular model of Parkinson’s disease.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20414966
It says: "Most notably, we found that when combined, LA and ALC worked at 100–1000-fold lower concentrations than they did individually."