Considering the present situation with antiaging drugs, we know that no such drug will get anything close to proof of effectiveness until years after we ourselves have reached old age, and many of us have died. I discussed this problem in the Introduction. This book reviews the available drugs with this purpose in mind. A decision to take any unproven drug requires personal care, more so than taking standard prescription drugs.
People differ in the degree of personal care they're willing to put into such choices.
Some longevists simply take everything they can, forgetting about possible interactions. The drug must be obtainable without great expense or a need to manufacture it ourselves. These three criteria narrow the field very considerably. Although it's never been as noticed or as popular as drugs such as GH-3, BHT, or Vitamin E, there is another drug, deanol, which actually seems to me to pass all of these tests. Many people have already taken deanol for prolonged periods.