Tablets Generic Deprenyl
Chemical Name: SELEGILINE (seh-LEDGE-ah-leen)

Common uses
This medicine is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) used to treat Parkinson's disease.


Before using
Some medicines or medical conditions may interact with this medicine. INFORM YOUR DOCTOR OR PHARMACIST of all prescription and over-the-counter medicine that you are taking. DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICINE if you are taking apraclonidine, atomoxetine, bupropion, cyclobenzaprine, dextromethorphan, meperidine, non-selective MAOIs (such as phenelzine or tranylcypromine), SSRI antidepressants (such as citalopram, fluvoxamine, paroxetine, or sertraline), tricyclic antidepressants (such as amitriptyline or doxepin), other medicines containing selegiline, or if you have taken any of these medicines in the past 14 days. DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICINE if you are taking fluoxetine or if you haven taken it within the past 5 weeks. DO NOT TAKE THIS MEDICINE if you are also taking buspirone, carbamazepine, duloxetine, entacapone, herbal products (such as ma huang), indoramin, narcotic pain medicines (such as methadone or propoxyphene), mianserin, mirtazapine, nefazodone, papaverine, sibutramine, central nervous system stimulants (such as dexmethylphenidate or methylphenidate), sympathomimetics (such as brimonidine, ephedrine, phenylephrine, or pseudoephedrine), tolcapone, tramadol, certain medicines for migraine headaches (such as sumatriptan or zolmitriptan), venlafaxine, or certain medicines for weight control (such as diethylpropion, phendimetrazine, or phentermine). ADDITIONAL MONITORING OF YOUR DOSE OR CONDITION may be needed if you are taking carbidopa/levodopa combination or levodopa alone, insulin, sulfonylureas (such as glipizide, glimepiride, or glyburide), certain other medicines for diabetes (such as repaglinide or nateglinide), nafcillin, phenobarbital, phenytoin, rifampin, or tryptophan. Inform your doctor of any other medical conditions including kidney or liver problems, involuntary movement problems (such as tardive dyskinesia), allergies, pregnancy, or breast-feeding. USE OF THIS MEDICINE IS NOT RECOMMENDED if you have a history of schizophrenia. Contact your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions or concerns about using this medicine.


Directions
Follow the directions for using this medicine provided by your doctor. STORE THIS MEDICINE at room temperature in a tightly-closed container, away from heat and light. CONTINUE TO TAKE THIS MEDICINE even if you feel better. Do not miss any doses. IF YOU MISS A DOSE OF THIS MEDICINE, take it as soon as possible. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not take 2 doses at once.



Cautions
THIS MEDICINE MAY CAUSE dizziness. If dizziness occurs, sit up or stand slowly. Do not drive, operate machinery, or do anything else that could be dangerous until you know how you react to this medicine. Most people who take this medicine can eat a normal diet. However, IF YOUR DOSE IS MORE THAN 10 mg/day, serious increases in blood pressure may occur when you eat or drink some foods and drinks. Foods or drinks which may cause a reaction include aged cheeses, sour cream, red wines, beer, bologna, pepperoni, salami, summer sausage, pickled herring, liver, meat prepared with tenderizers, canned figs, raisins, bananas, avocados, soy sauce, fava beans, or yeast extracts. Obtain a complete list of foods and drinks from your doctor, pharmacist, or nurse. DO NOT BECOME OVERHEATED in hot weather or during exercise or other activities since heatstroke may occur. BEFORE YOU BEGIN TAKING ANY NEW MEDICINE, either prescription or over-the-counter, check with your doctor or pharmacist. This includes medicines that contain pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, or dextromethorphan. Follow all of these cautions for at least 4 weeks after taking the last dose of this medicine. FOR WOMEN: IF YOU PLAN ON BECOMING PREGNANT, discuss with your doctor the benefits and risks of using this medicine during pregnancy. IT IS UNKNOWN IF THIS MEDICINE IS EXCRETED in breast milk. DO NOT BREAST-FEED while taking this medicine.


Possible side effects
SIDE EFFECTS, that may go away during treatment, include dizziness or dry mouth. If they continue or are bothersome, check with your doctor. CHECK WITH YOUR DOCTOR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE if you experience a severe headache, fainting, heart palpitations or changes in heart rate, chest pain, nausea, vomiting, confusion, anxiety, or behavior or mood changes. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor, nurse, or pharmacist.



If you take too much
If overdose is suspected contact your local poison control center or emergency room immediately. Symptoms of overdose may be delayed for up to 12 hours and may include agitation, cold or clammy skin, confusion, unusual drowsiness, excitement, fever, flushing, fast heartbeat, severe headache, irritability, loss of consciousness, restlessness, severe dizziness, slow breathing, seizures, sweating, and weakness.


Additional information
DO NOT SHARE THIS MEDICINE with others for whom it was not prescribed. DO NOT USE THIS MEDICINE for other health conditions. KEEP THIS MEDICINE out of the reach of children. IF USING THIS MEDICINE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME, obtain refills before your supply runs out.

Maintain healthy brain cells
with Deprenyl
Deprenyl reduces the age-related decline of dopamine, increasing its availability to preserve youthful brain activity

Deprenyl was originally developed as a ‘psychic energizer’, designed to integrate some amphetamine-like brain effects with anti-depressant effects. It has since been shown to protect nerve cells against a wide, and growing, number of neurotoxins, and has been shown to be a neuroprotection/neurorescue agent when nerve cells are exposed to damaging or stressful conditions.

Extending life-expectancy

Professor Joseph Knoll proved that Deprenyl improves the availability of dopamine, slows its age-related decline and helps maintain healthy brain cells by acting as a selective MAO-B inhibitor.

Professor Knoll emphasized that the nigrostriatal tract, the tiny DA-using nerve cluster in the basal ganglia (‘old brain’), typically dies off at an average rate of 13% per decade starting around age 45 in humans. This fact sets the human lifespan at about 115 years, since by that age the nigral neuron population would have dropped below 10% of its original number, at which time death ensues even if in all other respects the organism were healthy.

Therefore, human longevity is in-part governed by the rate of dopamine decline. Its support and enhancement means not only longer life, but lucid mental capabilities too. In fact, four different rat studies and one dog study have shown Deprenyl to be an effective life-extension agent.

Based on the sum total of research, Knoll has suggested that if Deprenyl were used from the 40s on, and only modestly lowered the nigrostriatal neuron death rate – say, from 13% to 10% per decade – then the average human lifespan might increase by 15 years.

Other uses

Deprenyl has become a standard treatment for Parkinson’s disease, and thanks to its aphrodisiac effects, helps to improve sexual function and desire (much more so for men than woman).

Although Parkinson's disease remains the only FDA approved indication for Deprenyl in the USA, with a number of ongoing clinical studies evaluating its efficacy in Alzheimer's disease, anecdotal reports from both physicians and patients of dramatic improvement in an impressive number of diseases have been accumulating.

Conditions for which Deprenyl appears to be therapeutic or ameliorative include: cerebral infarction (stroke), hormone inadequacy, amyotrophic lateralizing sclerosis (lou gherig's disease), fatigue, chronic pain, gastric ulcers, senile dementia, sexual dysfunction, multiple sclerosis, learning difficulties, blepharospasm, hypertension depression and cancer.

Dr. Clyde Reynolds, a clinician who specializes in the metabolic therapy of cancer in Washington State, discovered that cancer patients invariably have imbalances of the neurotransmitters, epinephrine, norepinephrine and serotonin. Dr. Reynolds has found that Deprenyl is highly effective in restoring the normal levels and normal balance of these neurotransmitters. He believes that normalization of the balance of these neurotransmitters is an absolute necessity for the effective treatment of all cancers.

Dosage:
Parkinson and Alzheimer's disease patients are often treated with very high doses of 20mg daily (usually along with other drugs). Anti-aging doses (dependant on age and condition) are more likely to be 2.5mg to 5mg once, twice or three times a week, . The manufacturer recommends 1mg two times a week for 30 to 35 years olds up to 10mg daily for 80 year olds plus. Ward Dean, M.D.,

Deprenyl had been discovered in 1964 by Knoll and his associates. Currently, only the L-form (selegiline) of this drug is in widespread clinical use, primarily for its ability to inhibit the "B" form of MonoAmine Oxidase.

MonoAmine Oxidase (MAO) is an enzyme that functions in the brain to break-down (inactivate) neurotransmitters. The "A" form, MAO-A, is found in most neurons and is most effective for breaking-down the neurotransmitters serotonin, adrenalin & noradrenalin. MAO-B, by contrast, is found in non-neuron brain cells (glia cells called astrocytes) and is more effective in breaking-down the neurotransmitter dopamine.

Drugs that inhibit MAO-A are used as anti-depressants, whereas drugs that inhibit MAO-B are more effective as treatments for Parkinson's Disease. Reducing the breakdown of serotonin, adrenalin & noradrenalin with MAO-A inhibition not only reduces depression, but elevates blood pressure -- often an undesireable "side effect". Deprenyl will inhibit both MAO-A and MAO-B in dosages above 30-40 mg per day, so it was initially used as an anti-depressant at these dosages. But soon, deprenyl's selective inhibition of MAO-B at dosages below 20 mg/day made it a useful therapy for treating the chronic dopamine depletion of Parkinson's Disease -- without the blood-pressure elevation problems.

It is quite an unexpected result that a MAO-B inhibitor could double the remaining life expectancy of normal animals. But recent studies continue to affirm the ability of deprenyl to extend remaining lifespan (although not to the extent of doubling), of both laboratory animals and Alzheimer's Disease patients.

Using deprenyl dosages equivalent to 4 mg/day for a 170-pound person, middle-aged female Syrian hamsters experienced a 16% increase in maximum lifespan, but no effect was seen for males [*5]. One reason for the sexual divergence might be indicated by the fact that male Wistar rats have twice the P450 cytochrome enzyme in the liver as female Wisters.

Although it takes too many years to do lifespan studies on long-lived species, another experiment was conducted on elderly beagle dogs. The dogs were given the equivalent of 77 mg/day for a 170-pound person. 80% of the deprenyl dogs survived to the end of the experiment, whereas only 39% of the placebo dogs survived [*6].

Studies of deprenyl on Syrian hamsters and Fischer-344 rats have also demonstrated improved spatial learning and long-term memory [*7 & *8]. One study on Alzheimer's Disease patients showed a 15% improvement in behavioral symptoms with 10 mg/day deprenyl [*9]. Another study of Alzheimer's patients receiving 10 mg/day deprenyl showed an increase in median survival of 215 days as compared with placebo [*10]. A well-controlled study looking for a 20% difference on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale found failed to find that much difference between Alzheimer's patients and controls after 6&nbps;months on 10mg daily deprenyl [*11].

A single 10 mg dose of deprenyl has been shown to significantly inhibit oxidation of blood LDL cholesterol in human subjects [NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH; Thomas,T; 24(2):169-173 (2002)].

How does deprenyl extend lifespan? More pointedly, why would a substance that prevents dopamine breakdown result in extended youth? In fact, deprenyl not only inhibits MAO-A and MAO-B, but has a number of other independent actions that protect neurons (protecting the brain). It is only possible to guess, but as the ultimate regulator of hormones and the immune system the brain can exert its effect on every cell in the body. A youthful brain may be the key to a youthful body.

Part of deprenyl's protection of brain cells comes through the inhibition of MAO-B. Over 80% of the dopamine in the human brain is in the basal ganglia. MAO-B in the basal ganglia is inhibited more than 90% by 10 mg/day of deprenyl -- resulting in a 40-70% increase in dopamine. MAO-B inhibition reduces degredation of phenylethylamine even more effectively than it inhibits dopamine degredation. Phenylethylamine stimulates release of dopamine and serotonin, besides acting as a direct stimulant on dopamine receptors [*12]

The breakdown products of dopamine resulting from MAO-B degradation are hydrogen peroxide, ammonia and an aldehyde. Aldehydes are highly reactive compounds that can modify proteins. Ammonia is also toxic, particularly to glia (non-neuron brain cells). Hydrogen peroxide in the presence of ferrous iron ion can lead to hydroxyl radicals, the most toxic of all free radicals. Hydrogen peroxide can easily pass into the cell nucleus where it can encounter iron ions to produce hydroxyl radicals that damage and mutate DNA. The combination of deprenyl and melatonin has been shown to counteract hydroxyl radical production due to dopamine autoxidation in the brain significantly more than either agent alone [JOURNAL OF PINEAL RESEARCH; Khaldy,H; 29(2):100-107 (2000)]. (Carnosine, which has been shown to reduce cellular senescence, also inhibits MAO-B free radical generation.)

Besides causing MAO-B inhibition, deprenyl can increase the formation of the natural anti-oxidant. enzymes SuperOxide Dismutase (SOD) and catalase in the substantia nigra, striatum and cerebral cortex regions of the brain. Joseph Knoll has contended that it is this effect of deprenyl, rather than MAO-B inhibition, which results in lifespan extension. Most deprenyl lifespan studies have been conducted on rats, whose brains (unlike those of humans) use MAO-A, rather than MAO-B, to metabolize dopamine. So inhibition of MAO-B metabolism of dopamine seems unlikely to be the mechanism by which deprenyl extends a rat's lifespan.

The dose of deprenyl for the induction of antioxidant enzymes is highly dependent upon the strain, age, sex and species of animal. The equivalent of 75 mg/day for a 170-pound person produced optimal superoxide dismutase induction in old C57BL male mice [*13] and female beagle dogs [*14]. Female Fischer-344 rats achieve maximum induction at the equivalent of 15 mg/day for a 170-pound person. SOD & catalase activity is less for larger or smaller doses -- meaning 15 mg/day is optimal. The optimal dose for male Fischer-344 rats is ten times greater -- the equivalent of 150 mg/day for a 170-pound person. Old female Fischer-344 rats, on the other hand, do best with the equivalent of about 75 mg/day. Dosages of the equivalent of 150 mg/day significantly decrease the activity of glutathione peroxidase in both old and young female Fischer-344 rats [*15]. Without glutathione peroxidase (or enough catalase) to eliminate hydrogen peroxide, SOD conversion of superoxide to hydrogen peroxide can lead to the formation of the deadly hydroxyl radical.

The fact that both too much or too little deprenyl can reduce its anti-oxidant effect -- and the fact that optimum dose varies so greatly with strain, age, sex and species -- makes the prediction of optimal dosages for human beings on the basis of animal studies very difficult.

DNA repair capability has been positively correlated with maximum lifespan for many species and many "accelerated aging diseases" are associated with DNA repair defects. DNA damage also correlates with neurodegenerative disease. DNA repair is facilitated by the enzyme Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1 (PARP-1) . Deprenyl has been shown to increase PARP-1 expression in hamster cells subjected to gamma-radiation, suggesting an additional possible mechanism for deprenyl in neuroprotection and lifespan extension [*16].

Whether or not deprenyl is a "wonder drug", the multiplicity of its effects are certainly a cause for wonder. In the 1990 Canadian lifespan study [*2] it was noted that the control animals had significantly higher Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN), indicative of deprenyl's protection of the kidney. Deprenyl protects neurons from hypoxia/ischemia damage [*17]. Deprenyl increases cell levels of the natural anti-oxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase by direct alteration of gene/protein transcription/synthesis. By the same kind of direct action on DNA, deprenyl also increases nerve growth factors, proteins halting "cell suicide" (apoptosis) and other proteins involved in protecting neurons -- 40 or more such genes in all [*18].

At least two studies have shown that deprenyl could be of value in reducing ischemic damage in the brain. A study involving 14 days of deprenyl on rats [*19] and 20 minutes of hypoxia/ischemia showed reduction of area of damage of 75% in the forebrain and about 20% in the cortex. For the hippocampus, 30-38% of the area was damaged in controls, but no damage was seen in the depenyl-treated rats. A similar study on gerbils [*20] showed reduced damage to the CA1 area of the hippocampus for deprenyl given more than a week before, immediately after and more than a week after ischemia due to vessel occlusion. Cell cultures exposed to peroxynitrite have been protected from apoptotic DNA damage by deprenyl [*21].

Understanding the role of deprenyl in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease is important for life-extensionists because of the controversy surrounding the question of whether deprenyl protects neurons in a clinical setting or merely treats symptoms. A great deal of research has gone into attempting to answer this question.

Parkinson's Disease is the second most common neurodegenerative disease (after Alzheimer's Disease). It affects about 2% of the population. The neurodegeneration in this case is very selective -- it is the dopamine-producing neurons in the pars compacta of the substantia nigra ganglion that degenerates. To compensate for the loss, dopamine receptors in the striatum of the brain increase in number -- and dopamine turnover & release accelerates. But when dopamine in the striatum is depleted to 20% the original level, compensation has reached its limit and symptoms of Parkinson's Disease appear. Levodopa can be used by brain cells to synthesize dopamine, which can alleviate Parkinsonian symptoms, but the degeneration continues. Within 5-10 years from the start of treatment the effectiveness of levodopa begins to fail, while side-effects become intolerable.

There is ample evidence that the neuron degeneration in the substantia nigra is due to free-radical oxidation. Most studies indicate a 30-40% increase of iron in the substantia nigra of Parkinson patients. Aluminum -- which can displace iron bound to protein and thereby increase reactivity -- is also increased. Although Parkinson symptoms can be induced in laboratory animals by injecting iron into the substantia nigra, this does not prove that iron-accumulation is what ultimately causes Parkinson's Disease.

Reduced glutathione levels are lower in the substantia nigra in Parkinsonism, and there is evidence that this depletion occurs earlier than the increase in iron. Depletion of reduced glutathione may itself be subsequent to a prior cause. That oxidation contributes significantly to neurodegeneration may still not answer the question of what begins the whole process.

Two large clinical trials, both consisting of about 800 Parkinson patients, have served as a focus for the role of deprenyl as a neuroprotective agent in clinical practice. The first of these trials was DATATOP (Deprenyl And Tocopherol Antioxidant Therapy Of Parkinsonism), a randomized, double-blind study at 28 US and Canadian sites that tested the effectiveness of 2000 IU/day Vitamin E and 10mg/day deprenyl in delaying the need for levodopa therapy in early-stage Parkinson patients.

Vitamin E was never shown to be of any benefit in Parkinsonism. But the first released results announced that deprenyl had delayed the need for levodopa therapy by a factor of 57% [*22]. A subsequent publication of DATATOP results [*23] was less enthusiastic. It acknowledged that at least part (and perhaps all) of the delayed need for levodopa was due to deprenyl relieving symptoms (substituting for levodopa), while the underlying neurodegeneration continued. A claim was made for neuroprotection, but the study design could not prove such protection. After a few more years of patient follow-up, the conclusions ceased to be positive at all: "deprenyl does not provide an advantage in preventing or postponing complications from levodopa therapy" and "by the end of the study, subjects receiving the different treatments had comparable degrees of parkinsonian disability and were taking comparable amounts of levodopa" [*24 & *25].

The second large clinical trial, the PDRG-UK (Parkinson's Disease Research Group of the United Kingdom) contained a more devastating indictment of deprenyl: after 5-6 years follow-up, patients taking a combination of levodopa with deprenyl had a 57% greater chance of dying than patients taking levodopa alone [*26]. A storm of protest arose in the medical community [*27 & *28]. The results were counter to those found in nearly all previous studies. Pooled results from many small studies showed opposite results from those of PDRG-UK, namely slightly reduced mortality with deprenyl. The PDRG-UK trials had not been blinded at all, patients knew their medications and could change groups at will. Nearly 50% of the subjects had dropped-out completely. The most seriously afflicted patients could have been the ones most earnest about receiving both medications. The fact that deprenyl was only used in combination with levodopa opens the possibility of levodopa/deprenyl and levodopa/deprenyl/Parkinson's Disease interactions which might not be relevant to life-extensionists taking deprenyl.

Unlike other studies, PDRG-UK trial participants had not been excluded on grounds of excess age, other diseases or other medications being taken. The PDRG-UK patients receiving levodopa alone had death rates over 3 times as great, and the levodopa/deprenyl patients had death rates over 5 times as great, as the non-deprenyl and deprenyl-treated patients (respectively) in the pooled results of 7 other controlled long-term studies. In defense, A.J.Lees and other representatives of PDRG-UK wrote that these conditions more accurately reflect true clinical practice than trials that screen for participants more carefully [*29]. Lees and associates also stated that their study design was superior to that of DATATOP and several others because mortality rather than advent of levodopa therapy was chosen as the end-point. A better interpretation is probably that the PDRG-UK study was able to command authority by having so many patients, but should be regarded with suspicion because of the poor controls which allowed the study to become so large.

Although causes of death due to deprenyl had not been well identified in the PDRG-UK paper, a subsequent paper co-authored by A.J.Lees concluded that "Therapy with deprenyl and levodopa in combination may be associated with severe orthostatic hypotension not attributable to levodopa alone" [*30]. A more carefully designed study, which studied deprenyl alone, rather than in combination with levodopa, seemed to confirm a side-effect of orthostatic hypotension for Parkinson patients taking deprenyl [*31]. But the DATATOP study had reported "No significant treatment-related changes in blood pressure or pulse recordings" although a 2% incidence of non-life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias were reported for the deprenyl group [*23].

Two subsequent (smaller) clinical trials attempted to address the design flaws of DATATOP and PDRG-UK, both being double-blind, placebo-controlled. One used mortality as the end-point [*32] and the other used measures of physical disability [*33]. Both concluded that deprenyl has neuroprotective action in clinical use. In support of this conclusion is another study which found more neurons and fewer neuron inclusion-bodies in the substantia nigra of autopsied patients who had been taking deprenyl [*34].

Even if 10 mg/day deprenyl does lower blood pressure for some Parkinsonian patients, it is questionable how relevant this result is for people without neurodegenerative disease who are taking deprenyl in smaller doses for life-extension or cognitive-preservation purposes. Transient elevated blood pressure is more often encountered in such cases, which is why morning dosing is common. And it should not be forgotten that Parkinsonian patients have already lost over 80% of their substantia nigra neurons -- with the remaining neurons typically being in a degenerative state. Moreover, Parkinson's Disease also attacks other midbrain nuclei, including the locus coeruleus (which produces most of the brain's norepinephrine). With norepinephrine (and serotonin) at about 50% of normal levels, it is understandable that Parkinsonian patients might suffer from low blood pressure.

Life-extensionists have understandably had a difficult time trying to determine what dose would be optimal for a human seeking the life-extension and neuroprotective benefits of deprenyl. Dosages in excess of 20-30 mg/day could create high blood pressure problems by MAO-A inhibition. Dosages in the 10 mg/day range would reduce the oxidation stress of the breakdown products of dopamine metabolized by MAO-B, but the resulting elevated dopamine levels might not be desirable. Deprenyl binds to MAO-B irreversibly, and it takes 2 weeks for MAO-B levels to return to normal. A single 5 mg dose can cause 86% MAO-B inhibition within 2-4 hours. Inhibition remains at 90% for 5 days, and does not return to baseline for 2 weeks [*35]. Deprenyl induction of enzyme synthesis (including, presumably, anti-oxidant enzymes) can take place at levels below those required for MAO-B inhibition [*21].

Therefore, a dose in the range of 1 mg/day might be optimal for a 40-year-old 170-pound person. Twice-weekly dosing has been based on the fact that deprenyl binds MAO-B irreversibly. But more frequent dosing might be better for steady induction of enzyme synthesis.

Aside from body weight, age is a very important consideration. As a person gets older, neurons decrease in number while glial cells (which synthesize MAO-B) increase -- meaning that MAO-B levels increase with age. This may be the reason that dopamine content of the striatum (caudate nucleus) typically decreases by 13% per decade after age 45. A person over 45 would want to counteract the excessive MAO-B in a dose proportional to his or her age. This could mean up to 5 mg daily for an elderly person with no symptoms of Parkinson's Disease or Alzheimer's Disease. Deprenyl has been shown to produce vasodilation by rapid increase in nitric oxide production and to protect the vascular endothelium from the toxic effects of amyloid-beta peptide.

Whether or not deprenyl can extend maximum lifespan, there is reason to believe that it can extend mean lifespan and protect from neurodegenerative disease. There may be considerable individual variation in what dose is optimal. Decisions based on incomplete information are never very satisfying, but such decisions are -- and will always be -- a condition of life.

Healthy individuals looking at Deprenyl for life-extension purposes are advised moderate doses. Over the long term, proper dosage appears to be a crucial factor and research is underway to pin-point optimum dosage. Very high doses are not advised for healthy people. The following rate is currently recommended for starting dosage and should be lowered after several months of treatment:


Deprenil recomended rates
Age Dosage
30-35 1mg twice a week
60-65 5 mg every day
35-40 1mg every other day
65-70 6mg every day
40-45 1mg every day
70-75 8mg every day
45-50 2mg every day
75-80 9mg every day
55-60 3mg every day
80 and over 10mg every day





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