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That depends very much on how much protein you need and how much people you can treat. It's possible to spend 100 million to genetically engineer yeast to be extremely optimized for producing a certain protein. A big pharma company can spend that much money when the drug is a block buster drug but researchers who just want the protein to run a few experiments can't.
Given how much people spend on drugs that only pretend to reverse aging or treat one small symptom of it, I'm pretty sure a pill that actually does reverse it would be of major interest to billions of people.
In general yes, if the protein works as a good drug the matter of synthesising it is a solvable engineering problem.
However we are not talking about a pill. We are talking about a daily injection. We are also not talking about completely reversing all aging but some aspects while likely suffering side effects.
Given the priors in a case like this, it's unlikely that everyone will soon take daily injections of the protein.