X-Message-Number: 7839 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:41:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Skrecky <> Subject: 3'rd update on fly experiments This is the third update on my fly experiments. There are no longer any zero mortality bottles as lycopene has passed the baton of lowest mortality to NADH, with forskolin in second place. The flies I am using are the Oregon R strain of drosophilia melanogaster, which has an average life span of 55 days at room temperature. Assuming an average age of 10 days at the start of the experiment it is apparent even without a control bottle that most of the bottles have underperformed, possibly because excessively high and toxic amounts of supplements were used in many of the bottles. Nonetheless NADH and forskolin appear to be beating the averages a bit at this point. It is interesting that although one out of 7 NADH fed flies died before day 21, none has expired since then. I intend to continue doing screening experiments (though with a proper control) with a second run soon. This will commence as soon as a shipment of fly food arrives. I've bought enough of this food to last till the end of the century I think, so there will be no further delays. Mortality Supplement DAY 21 Day 31 Day 43 Lipoic 55% 78% 89% Biotin 62 88 100 CLA 57 100 - Forskolin 10 20 20 Glutamine 0 83 83 Lycopene 0 0 40 NADH 14 14 14 Pregnenolone 0 25 63 Pyroglutamic 38 50 75 RNA 43 100 - Xanthophyll 38 25 75 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7839