Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org

Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The first question is from Matthew Scillitani: ‘What’s your current diet, exercise, and supplement regimen?’ You have made skeptical commentary about most of them not being effective, but you still take them. So you should comment on that as well.

Rick Rosner: I belong to several gyms, so I try to go to the gym for short workouts. I go on a circuit of gyms, hitting five of them daily for about 10 minutes each for about 100 sets a day. But I’m very skinny now, so it’s a waste of effort since I don’t have the muscle to support my exercise. So there’s little progress. On the other hand, I’m 64, so I take most of the vitamins I used to take, though I’m sloppier with them. It takes me a few hours to set up my couple of months of pills, and if I miss a few days because I run out of setups, then I’m OK with that. 

I take a lot of Fisetin, a senolytic that is said to make old busted cells kill themselves more easily, so they leave your body, and you have less inflammation. I take the standards: curcumin and a multi with some niacin. I take dutasteride, which is a dihydrotestosterone blocker that is good for your prostate and your hair. But everything’s the same as if you read any articles you can find online about the vitamins I said I took eight years ago. Yes, we are still determining what this stuff does. There are a lot of studies.

I take curcumin, metformin, and Fisetin, even though I’m not diabetic. I like supplements with studies showing that they do something. 

Jacobsen: And to what degree are there ones that don’t work? What, two-thirds, probably don’t work?

Rosner: That’s what I’ve said. Yes, I guess stuff like, at various points in the past from the 70s on, people thought that maybe massive doses of vitamin C would save you from cancer, vitamin E would save you from something, or vitamin D would save you from COVID. All that stuff eventually gets debunked. There is the stuff I just mentioned. Studies show that it has limited efficacy. So yes, I stick by probably two-thirds of everything, not doing much. I’m taking chances to see if there’s some benefit to some of the stuff I take, seems to have some benefit. The end.

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