#161 Can ESS60 (Safer C60) Extend Your Lifespan with Chris Burres

Chris Burres (0:00)

Those rats lived 90% longer, which is the single longest longevity experiment on mammals ever. Some of the things that we do know, right, it is a known antioxidant. There's one study that showed it to be 172 times more powerful than vitamin C.

And it is also a known anti-inflammatory. I mean, oxidation and inflammation are two of the greatest causes of aging. And so it wouldn't be surprising in the current mindset that something that extended a rat's life by 90% actually is an anti-inflammatory and an antioxidant.

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Siim Land (0:41)

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Control your mind. Chris is the founder and co-owner of MyVitalC, which is the world's largest manufacturer of ESS60. ESS60 or C60 is a molecule that's been shown to reduce inflammation, slow down aging and extend lifespan in other species. Chris, welcome to the show.

Chris Burres (1:19)

Hi, Siim. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be on your show. I've been doing a little bit of stalking, so you have an impressive array of health knowledge that's already out on the internet. So again, thank you for having me.

Siim Land (1:32)

Yeah, definitely. And you yourself have a very fascinating field of the subject that you cover. And most people, they probably haven't heard about C60 before.

So maybe kind of give us like a brief overview of what is it and how does it work?

Chris Burres (1:50)

Sure, absolutely. So C60 is carbon 60 And we're going to talk about ESS60 in a little bit. But carbon 60 is the third form of carbon. You've got diamond, you've got graphite, and then you've got a whole gamut of molecules called fullerenes.

Fullerenes were actually discovered in 1985 at Rice University here in Houston. That's where I'm based. And for the discovery, actually the scientists, Dr. Smalley, Dr. Croteau, and Dr. Curl won the Nobel Prize in 1996 So this discovery was a Nobel Prize winning discovery.

One of the reasons that it won the Nobel Prize is because pretty quickly the scientific community recognized that this was going to be an incredibly important material. Eleven years is pretty short for a Nobel Prize. And to describe the material a little bit more, it's 60 carbon atoms in the shape of the best way to describe it is a soccer ball, where the lines on the soccer ball represent the bonds between the carbon atoms.

So you've got this kind of larger molecule. It's got a whole gamut of molecules. There's C60, there's C70, which is a little more rugby ball shaped, C76, C84 on up. So you get larger and larger fullerings.

They were, again, discovered in 85 In 96, they won the Nobel Prize. And a lot of people will ask me, well, what are they good for? And in the early days, the running joke was, well, they're really good for funding. If you want to write a proposal and you want to get that proposal funded, it was a recently Nobel Prize winning discovery. And so it was really easy to get funded if you were going to do research on fullerings and C60 in particular. So you use it in ink and tires and battery cells and photo cells.

And it's a great material. I always kind of say it performs as well or better than the current best material. And so we were selling it to research institutions around the world since 1991 when we formed that company. You fast forward a little bit. They knew it would be ubiquitous. They knew that it would be used in a lot of different, you know, which means it's going to be used in a lot of different areas. By the way, the reason they thought this is a lot of the scientists kind of harkened it to a 3D version of benzene. And I don't know. I mean, you know, but some of your listeners may not know how important benzene is to modern society. It's in most medicines, detergents. It's in plastics. We don't have modern society without the benzene ring. So the scientists thought that this buckyball was like a 3D version of a benzene ring.

And again, that's why it won the Nobel Prize. And they assumed just like benzene that it would be toxic. So in 2012, they did a toxicity study and that toxicity study in that study, they gave rats water, rats olive oil. And I'm going to start to make a distinction between C60 and ESS60 because there's research that shows that C60 improperly processed is actually harmful. And ESS60 is C60 that's been processed for safer human consumption. So they gave these rats water. They gave them olive oil and they gave them olive oil with ESS60. And again, they assumed it would be toxic. Instead of being toxic, the rats that they gave our formulation to and actually my company delivered the product to those scientists and were mentioned in the paper, those rats lived 90% longer, which is the single longest longevity experiment on mammals ever. I'm kind of on a quest and maybe you can help me out here, Siim.