Huberman Lab: AMA #12: Thoughts on Longevity Supplements (Resveratrol, NR, NMN, Etc.) & How to Improve Memory

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Themes

Longevity supplements, NAD pathway, NR, NMN, intravenous infusion of NAD, Working memory, Resveratrol, Lifespan extension, Cellular functioning, Grape seed extract

Discussion
  • The podcast discusses the potential benefits of resveratrol and grape seed extract for vascular function and blood flow, but notes the lack of direct evidence for their ability to increase lifespan.
  • Different ways to increase NAD levels are explored, including supplementation with NR and NMN, as well as intravenous infusion of NAD.
  • The speaker shares their subjective experience with NR and NMN supplements, highlighting sustained mental and physical energy, but acknowledges the lack of scientific data on increased lifespan.
  • The importance of lifestyle factors like exercise, sleep, nutrition, and social connection for longevity is emphasized.
  • The podcast advises consulting a physician before making any changes to medication or supplement regimens.
Takeaways
  • Prioritize lifestyle factors such as exercise, sleep, nutrition, social connection, stress control, and exposure to morning sunlight for promoting longevity and vitality.
  • Supplements should be used as a complement to a healthy lifestyle, and it is important to consult with a healthcare professional before considering any supplementation.
  • There is limited evidence to suggest that resveratrol can extend lifespan, but it may have health benefits for vascular function and blood flow.
  • While NR and NMN supplements may be beneficial for energy levels, there is no scientific evidence to support claims of increased lifespan.
  • Ongoing research is exploring the potential of drugs like metformin and rapamycin to extend lifespan, but the current data does not justify their use for this purpose.

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In this episode of the Huberman Lab Podcast, Andrew Huberman discusses the potential benefits of resveratrol and grape seed extract for vascular function and blood flow, but notes that there is little direct evidence to support their ability to increase lifespan. The podcast explores different ways to increase NAD levels, including supplementation with NR and NMN, as well as intravenous infusion of NAD. The speaker shares their subjective experience with NR and NMN supplements, highlighting sustained mental and physical energy, but acknowledges the lack of scientific data on increased lifespan. The podcast emphasizes the importance of lifestyle factors like exercise, sleep, nutrition, and social connection for longevity, and advises consulting a physician before making any changes to medication or supplement regimens.

  • 00:00:00 In this episode of the Huberman Lab Podcast, Andrew Huberman discusses the topic of resveratrol and its potential to extend lifespan. He explains that while resveratrol may have some positive effects on cellular functioning, there is little direct evidence to support its ability to increase lifespan. However, he notes that resveratrol and grape seed extract can still have health benefits, particularly for vascular function and blood flow.
  • 00:05:00 The podcast discusses the topic of longevity supplements and drugs, focusing on the NAD pathway and its potential to increase lifespan. The host explores different ways people have tried to increase NAD levels, including through supplementation with NR and NMN, as well as intravenous infusion of NAD. The host shares their personal experience with taking NR and NMN but emphasizes that increasing NAD levels for the purpose of increasing lifespan is still uncertain.
  • 00:10:00 The speaker shares their subjective experience with taking NR and NMN supplements to increase their NAD levels. They describe feeling sustained mental and physical energy throughout the day when taking these supplements. However, they emphasize that their experience is not based on peer-reviewed studies and there is no data to support claims of increased lifespan. They also mention NAD infusions as another method to increase vigor, but note that it can be uncomfortable and should be explored with a physician.
  • 00:15:00 The speaker discusses their experience with NAD infusions, including the initial side effects and the positive effects they felt afterwards. They mention that there is ongoing debate among experts about the effectiveness of NAD infusions and the impact on lifespan. The speaker emphasizes that supplements should be seen as a complement to a healthy lifestyle, not a foundation for health and performance.
  • 00:20:00 The podcast discusses the potential impact of drugs and compounds like metformin, berberine, and rapamycin on increasing lifespan. The host shares their personal reasons for not taking metformin or rapamycin at present due to insufficient data and potential side effects. They emphasize the importance of quality sleep and exercise as the foundation for a long and healthy life.
  • 00:25:00 The podcast discusses the importance of various factors in promoting longevity and vitality, including exercise, sleep, nutrition, social connection, stress modulation, and exposure to morning sunlight. It emphasizes the significance of these lifestyle factors over supplements or drugs. The host also highlights the need to consult a physician before making any changes to medication or supplement regimens.

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I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford

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Without further ado, let's get to answering your questions.

The first question is about resveratrol.

The question specifically is, and I quote,

There seems to be a lot of conjecture about resveratrol and whether or not it can extend

lifespan.

Could you please tell us your thoughts on this subject?

Okay, well I will indeed tell you my thoughts on this subject, and I'll use it as an opportunity

to also give you my thoughts about supplementation for sake of longevity, that is, for extending

lifespan more generally.

So resveratrol got a lot of attention some years back because of, at the time, it was

believed that supplementing with resveratrol could impact certain cellular pathways that

would extend not just the lifespan of those individual cells, but perhaps the lifespan

of the entire organism, meaning us humans.

And as a consequence, supplements such as resveratrol supplements, but also grapeseed

extracts, which we know contain a fair amount of resveratrol or can be converted into resveratrol,

also received a lot of attention for the potential to increase lifespan.

I think by now, 2023, it's fair to say that most of that thinking has been, let's just

say debunked.

I think that most people understand that while indeed resveratrol might have some positive

effects on the functioning of our cells, that there is very little, if any, direct evidence

that resveratrol can increase lifespan.

If you are aware of any data to the contrary, that is modern, is highly controlled and even

better was carried out in human studies or non-human primate studies or even mouse studies.

Please put links to those in the comments on YouTube because I'd love to see those studies,

especially recent studies.

But my current line of thinking is that resveratrol, while it may have certain health benefits,

does not seem to increase lifespan.

Now with that said, that doesn't mean that things like resveratrol or grape seed extract

are of zero utility.

In fact, I take 400 to 800 milligrams of grape seed extract usually with a meal as just part

of my standard supplementation stack every single day.

But I do that mainly for its effects on vascular function and blood flow and a few other effects

that grape seed extract has been related to.

The data there, I would say, are reasonably strong, strong enough, certainly, that when

weighed against the potential downsides of taking grape seed extract, including the cost

of grape seed extract, lead me to take 400, 800 milligrams of grape seed extract per day.

I just do that as a general insurance policy against a number of things and it's part

of a small kit of supplements that I take that fall into that category, meaning supplements

that appear to be very safe, certainly at the dosages that I just referred to, supplements

that potentially are having positive effects on our cells and that are fairly, if not very

low cost.

Okay.

So that's why I take grape seed extract.

I do not take it for its potential impact on resveratrol and resveratrol related pathways

per se and certainly not to extend my lifespan.

So that basically answers the question that I was asked, which is, what are your thoughts

on resveratrol for extending lifespan?

My answer was, I don't think it extends lifespan, but I take something related to resveratrol

for other health purposes.

By the way, I certainly wouldn't place grape seed extract in my list of top five or even

top 10 supplements.

If somebody, for instance, said, I want to take anywhere from one to 10 supplements and

I have X amount of budget to devote to supplementation and I'm thinking about taking grape seed extract.

Would that be one of the top 10 supplements you would recommend?

I certainly wouldn't put it in the top 10.

And by the way, at some point in the not too distant future, I will put online, so I'll

probably do a podcast episode listing out all the supplements that I take and the rationale

behind those and how long I've taken them and the effects that I've observed, both subjectively

and in my blood work and what I recommend to other people, what I don't recommend to

other people, what's specific to me and so on and so forth.

But meanwhile, that's my answer to the question.

I don't think resveratrol increases longevity, at least I'm not aware of any direct evidence

for that in humans.

Now with that said, let's use this as an opportunity to talk about some of the other so-called longevity

supplements and drugs that are often discussed online and elsewhere in terms of their efficacy

to increase lifespan.

About four or five years ago, there was a sudden and increased attention on NAD related

pathways for increasing longevity.

So the NAD pathway, as some of you may already know, is a pathway within all of our cells.

This is a pathway that is highly active in young animals and humans, but all animals

and humans across the entire lifespan make NAD in their cells.

It's related to cellular energetics, that is the production of energy in cells.

It has direct relevance to mitochondrial function and mitochondrial function to it.

And that's a discussion into itself, but suffice to say that the pathway leading to NAD includes

things such as NR and NMN.

NR and NMN are considered by many to be precursors to NAD.

Okay, so why am I telling you all these acronyms?

Here's the deal.

The argument was made, in fact, by some prior guests on the Huberman Lab podcast and elsewhere,

that by increasing NAD levels in our cells, that one could potentially extend lifespan.

And there are generally three ways in which people have attempted to do that.

Okay, we'll talk about whether or not increasing NAD in our cells actually increases lifespan

in a moment, but for the time being, let's just talk about some of the ways that people

have tried to increase NAD within their brain and body.

The most typical ways that people have done that is through, until very recently, supplementation.

And so there are supplements out there such as NR, which we know can increase NAD levels.

So this is taken as a pill or a powder, typically as a capsule or a powder.

Or by taking NMN, which, and here there's been some, let's just say, debate as to whether

or not taking NMN actually leads to increases in NAD within our cells, whether or not it

can get into our cells, whether or not it's converted into NAD and so on and so on.

But there again, the idea was by taking NAD either in capsule form, or it's sometimes

taken as a sublingual powder, that one could increase NAD levels and thereby potentially

increase lifespan.

And then there's a third way that's commonly used to try and increase NAD levels.

And that's by infusing, by intravenous infusion, or in some cases by oral administration, either

liquid or pill form NAD itself.

Now I confess that I have tried all three of these approaches, okay?

So I do indeed take an NR supplement every day.

I take 500 milligrams of NR.

I also, and have separately taken an NMN supplement, I take sublingual NMN.

So I'll take anywhere from one to two grams of NMN as a sublingual powder, which as the

name suggests, you put it under your tongue and it dissolves there.

It's got this kind of tangy flavor.

And the goal for me in taking NR and NMN each day, and I should mention that sometimes I

have just taken NMN or just NR to do the comparison between NR and NMN for me in a subjective way,

just comparing what are my energy levels, how do I feel, whether or not there are any

side effects, and then I've also taken them together and I've arrived at a protocol where

I take NR and NMN every single day.

And the goal of that is indeed to increase NAD levels within my system.

However, and I really want to emphasize this, I do not take NR and NMN in order to increase

my lifespan.

In fact, at this point in history, it's unclear and seems somewhat unlikely that increasing

NAD is going to increase lifespan, but I think we should always keep our minds open.

There may be data to arrive in the future that shows that that actually does happen in humans.

There are some animal data suggesting that increasing NAD either by taking NR and or NMN

can increase lifespan, but frankly, that is not why I take NR and NMN.

I take NR and NMN in an effort to increase NAD and now I realize what I'm about to say

is entirely subjective and I really want to highlight that.

What I'm about to describe is my experience.

It is not based on any peer-reviewed studies.

When I take NR and NMN at the dosages I talked about a little bit earlier, it gives me a

lot of sustained mental and physical energy throughout the day.

Now, I've always had a lot of mental and physical energy, but I'm 48 years old now and I'm

interested in doing anything that I safely can to keep those levels of energy as high

as is reasonable, right?

I don't want to have so much energy that I can't sit still or so much energy that I

can't sleep at night, but I find that when I take NR and NMN in the morning, so typically

I'll do this before my first meal.

I don't really regulate how close it is to that first meal, so I'll wake up, use the

bathroom, hydrate, get my sunlight, do all the things I've talked about on other podcasts,

but I'll take my NR and NMN sometime usually within about an hour or two of waking up and

typically at least 30 minutes to two hours before my first meal, which for me usually

arrives around 11 a.m., so sometimes I'll take it long before my first meal.

In any event, it gives me a lot of energy and I seem to have that energy throughout the

day.

I have gone periods of time where I stopped taking NR and or NMN and while I didn't feel

as if I was completely depleted of energy, I did notice a decrement in energy compared

to when I took NR and NMN.

Now, I want to be very, very clear.

I have no zero financial relationship to any company that manufactures NR and while I used

to have a relationship to a company that made NMN, as of recently, there's an FDA ruling

that has made NMN not available as a supplement in the wider world.

So earlier this year, that is in 2023, there was a filing for NMN as a experimental drug

in a clinical trial and as a consequence, NMN was listed as a band or not allowed to

be commercially sold supplement.

And that has to do with some of the legality around clinical trials and when something

is listed as an experimental drug, it can't be listed as a supplement.

Nonetheless, you can still find NMN on the open market, you can find it on Amazon.

I can't really speak to the purity of one source versus another.

You'll have to explore that on your own.

But I will say this, even though I said it before, I have zero financial relationship

to any company that manufactures and sells NMN at this time or NR at this time.

So the short summary to this whole discussion about NR and NMN is that I take NR and NMN,

but I take it because I like how it makes me feel.

It increases my energy levels in the morning and throughout the day and it does so in a

way that tapers off nicely in the evening and I can still fall asleep, etc.

I do not take it with any expectation that it's going to increase my lifespan simply

because I don't think the data substantiating the extension and lifespan are here yet.

They may arrive at some point, but I don't think that they are here yet.

So there are a good number of people out there that still take NR and or NMN and are doing

so in efforts to increase NAD.

And so let's take a moment and talk about increasing NAD directly because that's something

that I have some recent experience with and that's becoming more common and is, yes, still

FDA approved, at least as far as I know.

There are companies that can come to your house or you can go to a facility and they

will give you an NAD infusion.

So they will infuse you directly with NAD into the vein.

I've done this twice now and I will say as most people experience when they do an NAD

infusion, it's pretty darn uncomfortable.

In fact, so much so that a lot of people have to take anti-nausea meds in order to get the

NAD infusion.

I opted to not take the anti-nausea meds, not because I'm particularly tough, but because

I don't like taking additional medication if I can.

But I've taken anywhere from 500 to 1000 milligrams of NAD by infusion.

I did that at times when I was feeling particularly run down, post illness.

And I did indeed find that after the NAD infusion was complete, I felt much, much better in a

number of different ways, improve sleep, improve vigor, coming off those illnesses.

I felt much better.

But again, there is no clinical trial exploring NAD infusion for sake of vigor, et cetera,

that I am aware of.

I just happen to be somebody who's interested in exploring these tools and techniques from

time to time and I deemed this as safe.

Whether or not safe for you, you have to explore with your physician.

Also, I do want to reemphasize what I said a moment ago.

Those NAD infusions are pretty darn uncomfortable.

You can have the person administering the infusion adjust the rate of the infusion so

that the drip is slower, which makes it more tolerable as opposed to trying to get the whole

infusion bag in there in 45 minutes or less.

I just want to get the whole thing over with.

So I just said, put in as quickly as you reasonably and safely can.

It took about an hour, maybe 45 minutes to an hour.

Initially, I felt nauseous.

I felt like someone was stepping on my chest.

I felt like someone was stepping on my legs.

I felt like, oh, I've just felt lousy and it was so awful.

Then after about 10 minutes, it passed and I felt fine.

Then after the infusion was done, as I mentioned before, I felt terrific.

I was still able to fall asleep that night just fine, although I did make it a point

to do this earlier in the day.

I have heard of some people doing NAD infusions later in the day and having challenges with

sleep, but again, that's just anecdotal or we can call it anecdata if you want, but

it's anecdotal.

It's generally assumed for obvious reasons that NAD infusions are more effective at increasing

cellular levels of NAD than are NR or NMN or both together, although the direct comparison

has not been made as far as I know.

There's still this general question as to whether or not any of this stuff is getting

into cells directly and impacting NAD levels in specific cells, although I think most people

assume that the NAD infusions certainly are.

There are a number of different experts out there who debate all the fine points of everything

that I just said.

People like Dr. Charles Brenner, people like Dr. David Sinclair, people like Matt Caberline.

There are people who really actively and let's just say heatedly debate all the issues that

I just talked about.

I think the greatest debate is around whether or not increasing NAD levels in cells actually

increases lifespan, but there's also a debate around whether or not NR is more advantageous

than NMN, whether or not all of this is too premature to explore yet already.

Again, I just want to restate for the third time.

I don't do any of this stuff in these NAD pathways for sake of increasing lifespan.

I do it for sake of the vitality and energy effects that I subjectively experience.

I must say that the NAD infusions are expensive enough, inconvenient enough, and let's just

say uncomfortable enough that I don't see myself doing them very often, although perhaps

maybe doing them a couple of times a year or more makes sense.

Should I find myself feeling rundown or post illness fatigue or things of that sort?

I would be very curious to learn from any of you, the audience, what sorts of things

you've experienced when, if perhaps you've explored NR supplementation, NMN supplementation

or NAD infusions.

And as I mentioned earlier, there's now a growing number of different products that

claim that you can take NAD orally, so either in pill, tincture, or other form, so no requirement

for an infusion.

But I'm not aware of any studies that have directly linked oral NAD to NAD levels in

cells and how those two things relate.

So lots more important science to be done in this area.

Lots more debate surely to be had.

And anytime we talk about supplements, I just want to emphasize several times that I do

see supplements as indeed supplements.

I think only by getting your light exposure, sunshine, movement, nutrition, stress modulation,

social relationships, et cetera, correct, should you even begin to consider supplementation

because supplementation is just not at the foundation of mental health, physical health,

and performance.

It is indeed something that provided it fits within your safety and economical frameworks

could potentially enhance mental health, physical health performance in certain ways,

but it's certainly not the foundation from which you build mental health, physical health,

and performance.

So now we've talked about resveratrol, a little bit about grape seed extract.

We talked about NRNMN and NAD and the NAD pathway.

There are a few other things that are commonly discussed in the longevity sphere, let's call

it, things such as metformin.

I'll just be very direct and say I do not take metformin.

And I also don't take what some people call the pormins version of metformin, which is

berberine.

Berberine gives me brutal headaches, berberine lowers blood glucose, that's why I think it's

giving me brutal headaches.

A lot of people have explored or are thinking about exploring taking metformin or berberine

for sake of lowering blood glucose and lowering a particular cellar, let's just say pathway

or set of molecules, mTOR being the most common of them.

MTOR mammalian target of rapamycin is abundant in developing cells.

It's responsible for the growth of individual cells and the amount of mTOR in our cells tapers

off across our lifespan.

MTOR and its pathways is something that I've actually worked on fairly extensively in my

laboratory in the context of the regeneration of the visual system.

So I'm very familiar with it and for sake of convenience and ease in this conversation

we could just think of mTOR as something that's abundant in cells during development

and anytime cells are growing, including the growth of tumor cells.

Cellular growth at any stage of the lifespan.

So the logic that people have waged is that drugs like metformin or compounds like berberine

that reduce mTOR levels or impact the mTOR pathway in ways that lead to net decreases

in mTOR, the logic is that that could somehow increase lifespan.

There's also the logic that fasting can reduce mTOR which can increase lifespan.

I don't think there's any direct evidence for that yet, however, at least not in humans.

So I'll tell you, I don't take berberine for the reasons I mentioned before, it makes

me feel uncomfortable.

I don't, not psychologically uncomfortable, it makes me feel physically uncomfortable.

I don't take metformin because expert colleagues of mine including Dr. Peter Ortea have come

on this podcast.

In fact, we did a collaboration journal club podcast that we'll provide a link to in the

show note captions during which we, meaning mainly Peter, reviewed the data, the peer

review data on metformin and lifespan.

And at least to my understanding at present, there isn't sufficient data to support taking

metformin for increasing lifespan.

So that's why I don't take it.

I may in the future, if more data come out and things change, but right now I see no

reason to take metformin to increase my lifespan.

So I don't take metformin.

Similarly, there's a lot of discussion out there about rapamycin.

Under mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin is so named because it's a target of this

drug which is used largely as an anti-cancer drug, but has other purposes as well.

Rapamycin is actively under investigation, which makes it sound like there was a crime

committed, but as far as I know, there wasn't.

Under active scientific exploration would be the more accurate way to say it.

By excellent researchers such as Dr. Matt Caberline up at the University of Washington

in Seattle.

He's been looking at rapamycin for its ability to extend lifespan, focusing on many different

species, including dogs.

So he has a dog longevity project.

So that's really interesting.

Dr. Peter Atia has talked a lot about rapamycin and did a recent podcast about rapamycin with

not only Matt Caberline, but one of the experts in the world on mTOR.

So I invite you to check out that podcast if you want to learn about rapamycin.

So there is a fair amount of understanding about the biological pathways of rapamycin

and mTOR and so on.

And there are clinician physicians like Peter, as well as others who are quite excited about

the potential for rapamycin to extend lifespan, although you'll have to go directly to Peter

to find out exactly what he's doing, whether or not he's taking rapamycin or not.

I certainly can't speak for him, but at present, I don't take rapamycin.

Why don't I take rapamycin?

Well, I don't take rapamycin because at least to my eye, the data at present don't justify

that for sake of increasing lifespan.

That is not to say that rapamycin isn't an effective drug for the treatment of various

cancers and for other purposes.

But for me, at this point in time, I just don't see a good reason for me to take rapamycin

relative to some of the, let's just say, substantiated potential side effects of rapamycin.

It is a drug that I think can be taken safely under certain conditions, but has enough of

a side effect profile that I'm not interested in taking it for sake of increasing lifespan

at this time.

So no metformin, no rapamycin for me right now, perhaps in the future.

I've listed out the things that I'm perfectly willing and happy to do.

Grape seed extract, NR and NMN, the occasional NAD infusion to increase NAD directly.

And for the time being, I've decided to stay away from metformin and rapamycin.

But of course, any and all of that could change going forward, depending on the data that

are published in my own experiences.

As a final point on this, I want to again emphasize that the foundation of a quality

life and a long life is most certainly going to come from the basics, perhaps the most

fundamental and important of which is to get sufficient amounts of quality sleep each night.

When you know that not doing that can indeed reduce your lifespan.

If not directly, then certainly indirectly by increased number of accidents and certainly

being far less happy and energetic during the day.

So that's fundamental also.

And this is very important to emphasize.

And here I'm essentially borrowing the word straight out of Dr. Peter Otea's mouth.

So forgive me, Peter, this won't be nearly as eloquent or succinct as Peter would make

it.

But it is very, very clear that at present, there is no supplement or drug for increasing

longevity that even comes close to the known improvements in health metrics that relate

to longevity that come from getting quality sleep and especially from getting sufficient

amounts of quality exercise.

So that means both a combination of cardiovascular exercise, a minimum of 180 to 220 minutes of

so-called zone two cardio per week.

So that's cardio that you can carry out while still maintaining a conversation.

But should you increase the intensity any more, you would have a hard time completing

your sentences.

But in addition to that, also doing some VO2 max works or getting your heart rate way

way up at least once per week.

And also, of course, doing resistance training, either with weights, machines or body weight,

doing that at sufficient intensity, six sets minimum per body part per week to maintain

not just muscular size and strength, but equally important, perhaps even more important,

maintaining nerve to muscle connectivity, which correlates with cognitive function and

a number of other important longevity metrics.

So again, exercise, sleep, quality nutrition, quality social connection, which means eliminating,

as best you can, toxic social connection and increasing quality social connection people

that you like and enjoy spending time with and feel enriched by stress modulation.

All of these things are so key.

And of course, getting morning sunlight, all of those things combined to have a huge outsized

effect compared to anything that you could take in pill capsule or in fusion.

So before even considering taking any supplement or drug to increase your longevity, or even

for increasing vitality for that matter, get those basics of sleep, sunlight, nutrition,

movement, stress modulation, or stress control, I should say, and relationships down.

Get those right and get that morning sunlight to set your circadian rhythm because of course,

your circadian rhythm is what anchors it all.

And I'd be completely remiss if I didn't emphasize yet again that anytime you're thinking of

adding a supplement or removing a supplement from your regimen or adding a prescription

drug or removing a prescription drug, you absolutely should consult your board certified

physician.

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Welcome to a preview of the 12th Ask Me Anything (AMA) episode, part of Huberman Lab Premium.

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Timestamps

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:01:46) Resveratrol and Longevity Supplements

(00:26:49) Huberman Lab Premium

In the full AMA episode, we discuss:

What Is Working Memory and How to Improve It


Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac

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