How people get it: Mostly inside clinical trials. Some, such as quercetin and fisetin, are sold as supplements.
Part of Age reversal: clearing old cells
The basics
What it is
Navitoclax is a pill-form drug that blocks Bcl-2 proteins and promotes apoptosis, which is cell death.
How it's thought to work
Senescent cells in melanoma release a mix of signals called SASP that changes how immune cells are recruited and work.
What the research has found so far
- A review of animal studies found quercetin improved cartilage scores in osteoarthritis, a joint disease linked to aging.
- The review authors said human trials are still needed to check if quercetin works for osteoarthritis.
- A review of studies said clinical use of senescence-targeting approaches in melanoma needs more study to confirm safety and benefit.
Sources: PubMed abstract: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov ↗ · PubMed abstract: Cellular Senescence and Immunosenescence in Melanoma: Insights From the Tumor Microenvironment. ↗
Clear results in animals. Early human trials are small.
On Senolytics and aging, PubMed lists 20 trials in people, 19 studies that watched people over time, 371 animal and lab studies. See the counts and searches
Stage 2 because there are 20 published trials and 41 registered trials in people, but no large ones yet.
A stage shows how far research has got, not whether it will work for you. How stages work
Side effects and risks
In cancer patients, navitoclax caused a drop in platelets, which are blood cells that help clotting.
Amounts used in studies
What studies or labels describe, not a recommendation.
Studies of navitoclax in 256 cancer patients used oral doses from 10 to 475 mg. Those studies gave navitoclax on a 14 of 21 day schedule or as a continuous once daily schedule.
Roughly what it costs
The one product we list that contains Senolytics costs $35, as read from the makers' pages. See the products
Questions to ask your doctor
- Is Senolytics a sensible option for me, given my health and the medicines I take?
- Could Senolytics interact with any medicine or supplement I already take?
- What side effects should I watch for, and when should I stop or call you?
- Would Senolytics be used for its approved purpose, or off-label for aging?
- How would we tell whether it is helping, and when should we review it?
This is general information gathered from the sources listed, not medical advice. Talk to your doctor before starting anything new.
Products that contain it
Read from each maker's page. The research stage is for the ingredient, not proof that a product works.
What experts say
No expert views collected yet. Each one we add names the person and links to where they said it.
Commentary in journals
Recent research
A tea plant root extract killed aging skin cells in a lab dish
Researchers tested a tea root extract on human skin cells that had been made old in a dish.
Old, stuck cells may sometimes help cancer resist treatment
This review looks at how cells that stop dividing after cancer treatment might sometimes help tumors survive.
How aging cell changes may relate to a type of heart failure
This review looked at studies linking aging cells and their chemical signals to a heart problem called HFpEF.
How cancer treatment may age the heart and blood vessels in breast cancer patients
This review looks at how cancer treatments can leave some cells stuck in an aging state that may harm the heart.
How aging of the immune system may affect rheumatoid arthritis
This review explains three aging-related ideas and how they may link to rheumatoid arthritis.
Cell aging after cancer treatment may help or hurt tumour growth
This paper is a review of earlier research on aged cells and cancer.
Trials
ClinicalTrials.gov lists 41 registered trials that mention Senolytics, for any condition (the count in The science below). Here we show the ones about aging. See them all ↗
The science
Counted from PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov on Oct 17, 2026, using one search for Senolytics in relation to aging. Each link opens the exact search.
- Randomized trials in people
- 11 search ↗
- Large trials (multicenter or phase 3)
- 1 search ↗
- Phase 3 trials
- 0 search ↗
- Trials in people
- 20 search ↗
- Studies that watched people over time
- 19 search ↗
- Animal and lab studies
- 371 search ↗
- Registered trials
- 41 search ↗
PubMed search used
(senolytic*[tiab] OR "dasatinib and quercetin"[tiab] OR "dasatinib plus quercetin"[tiab])
Counts are search results, so they include some records that only mention Senolytics. How we count
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