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First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed
- Thread starter yoonshik
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So for a year they took a combination of common drugs and were able to "shed" 2.5 years of aging ... that's wild.
lol wait
You say if I keep taking these pills I won't age? I'm not prepared to live in this dystopia.
You say if I keep taking these pills I won't age? I'm not prepared to live in this dystopia.
I'm pretty sure the drugs they used in the study are fairly affordable.
Especially since the only people who might be able to psychologically deal with living for centuries will likely be narcisstic psychopaths.
not when their sons and daughters kill them first for the inheritance.
Well, on the other hand, maybe being able to live longer will entice them to take better care of the planet. It's not just the next generation's problem anymore.
Sure, for now.
Just wait until the final product is sold as "Immortality Pill", and watch the price rise and rise and rise and rise.
I like the way you think!
Fasting can increase Lifespan. It also happens to improve insulin sensitivity. It's no coincidence that diabetes drugs controls insulin sensitivity.
It also increases the release of growth hormones. Again it's no coincidence that growth hormone can also increase reduce aging.
It also increases the release of growth hormones. Again it's no coincidence that growth hormone can also increase reduce aging.
Metformin is available in many generic forms I believe. It's an old drug. Maybe they'd try to ramp the price up in the US, but it would be hard to do that everywhere.
If the rich live longer, would they spend more of their fortune to make sure the world doesn't die around them?
I'd say, nah, they'd probably just invest in mars colonization and leave us to die on earth.
I'd say, nah, they'd probably just invest in mars colonization and leave us to die on earth.
HGH is popular with pretty much every group
trying to get more out of their body, so this isn't a surprise to me. I recall a journalist taking it and testosterone and recounting his experience. I think it's already popular with the affluent.
trying to get more out of their body, so this isn't a surprise to me. I recall a journalist taking it and testosterone and recounting his experience. I think it's already popular with the affluent.
Wonder if the rich would still rapidly destroy the world if they had to stick around to reap the negatives.
The world would destroy itself if something like that existed but was limited or cost a lot. So many people would turn to murder and destruction to try and get ahold of it. I think most people can say they would fight for a chance at immortality.
I don't think this will revert that, this will make it really young and shiny when it drops.
Thank god for rapid climate change then, better for some other species to get a chance than a hellscape ruled by billionaire lich lords.
I haven't finished it yet but sounds like the premise of altered carbon.
I'm having the hardest time believing how rejuvinating such a solution would actually be. I mean, I just CAN'T wait to witness the side effects. I feel like we're still far away from cheating death, but then again, we already live in a creepy dystopia so who knows!
Hey, maybe they will finally care about global warming?
Who am I kidding, they don't give a fuck.
Go watch 'Altered Carbon' on Netflix. This very thing is covered there.
This is obviously nonsense at this point (tiny study looking at particular markers with no control group), but people here are so negative. They're telling you there's a tiny possibility of being able to slow/reverse aging and ya'll jumping to shit about rich people.
Acting like people not dying or aging more slowly is some creepy dystopia. Do you want to get old and frail and die at 70?
Acting like people not dying or aging more slowly is some creepy dystopia. Do you want to get old and frail and die at 70?
Also sounds like a good premise for a new Final Destination movie. Death will not be cheated by halted age.
Dunno, at this point longer life spans and therefore necessarily longer term visions might be a good thing... though I'm sure it'll get turned into something even worse. Not that I'll take this study as indicative of it happening anytime soon.
Did it increase the length of the telomeres too? Because without that there is probably a hard limit on lifespan.
People no longer dying off would further destroy the environment and place a massive political and economic strain on all nations.
What are you going to do when you have a hundred million pensioners in a nation of 300 million? It would collapse.
Or maybe you would just have to employ forced euthanasia past a certain age.
Can Trump, Putin and co all die soon please.
Our future is fucked. We'll all be slaves to a slither of mega rich corporation owners. Dystopia is real.
Our future is fucked. We'll all be slaves to a slither of mega rich corporation owners. Dystopia is real.