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At the same time, many young men in the West struggle to put on weight and are underweight.
oh yeap, been struggling with this forever.
Try some bacon.
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Re: With greater longevity, the quest to avoid infirmities of aging is more urgent
#82Yes we can. Calorie restriction is well known slowing biological aging process. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction
I swear most HN users have some form of orthorexia.
Orthorexia is a virtue signal in the 10%-ers.
Not having orthorexia among such a group would be like farting in public in less fortunate groups.
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I swear most HN users have some form of orthorexia.
Diet and the human body in general is a complex system the HN users want to understand, hack, optimize, perfect.
Or they just go with the defaults for their social circles and salary brackets...
(Which includes people into Goop and such -- hardly the "hackers" that want to analyze and hack the human body).
Re: With greater longevity, the quest to avoid infirmities of aging is more urgent
#84The most intriguing thing I found in the article, is that, If you design & sell items specifically to elderly, they wont buy it. Because they don't want the product to remind that they are old. So the solution is to design a product which suits to the elderly but seems like its designed for young generation.
Hence, infomercials with ludicrously clumsy (but young) people.
Re: With greater longevity, the quest to avoid infirmities of aging is more urgent
#85So many people think anti-aging science is just about living more years, but that's missing half the picture. Anti-aging science is not just about living more years, it's about being able to live healthy and fulfilling lives both physically and mentally even as you age. Way too many people are broken by age before they die, to prevent that would be fantastic.
>So many people think anti-aging science is just about living more years, but that's missing half the picture. Anti-aging science is not just about living more years, it's about being able to live healthy and fulfilling lives both physically and mentally even as you age.
Thats's 2/3rds of the picture. The other 1/3rd of "anti-aging" is selling snake-oil fads to suckers and for people with anxieties to obsess over.
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That's my plan. I've got the gym membership and use it often. I struggle mightily with eating less crap, though. (Especially chocolate.) Food is one of the great pleasures in life, and I haven't found really healthy food to be a good replacement for tasty junk. Maybe advances in food production will bring hope?
I've found that I can improve things simply by eating healthier for my boring meals. Then for my fun meals I eat whatever I want. You can also reduce how much you eat for your fun meals, but changing the boring meals makes a difference even if you don't.
Interesting distinction, but what if you're already making your boring meals more fun?
Re: With greater longevity, the quest to avoid infirmities of aging is more urgent
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Well, we've had some wonderful crackpots through the ages. Tesla comes to mind. Whatever you think about his idea of escape velocity you can't doubt the engineering approach he advocates makes sense. Solve these 7 problems [1] and there will be no reason the organism should die. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey#The_seven_types...
Solve those 7 problems and we'll probably find an 8th.
Perhaps. But solving those 7 will increase longevity by leaps and bounds.
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I swear most HN users have some form of orthorexia.
I had never heard of that term but now that I know what it is, I think you’re right. There are so many very strong opinions about diet here and very little quality data to back it up (because for the most part it doesn’t exist).
"There are so many very strong opinions about diet"
This is true for almost every group including scientists studying nutrition, it changes frequently.
Re: With greater longevity, the quest to avoid infirmities of aging is more urgent
#89I wish we lived little less, resulting in, less knowledge transfer, less technology, less of the destruction caused by humans on nature. We live longer than most of the creatures of our size, and we have larger brain. That's the reason of the damage we create to the earth like swarms of locusts do to the green grass fields [1]. And still we wish more life! Sad! On a serious note, the most intriguing thing I found in…
> So the solution is to design a product which suits to the elderly but seems like its designed for young generation.
Aren't a lot of products you see on infomercials exactly that?
I've seen people argue that it's a market failure or an inefficiency of capitalism that people are trying to market products for elderly and disabled people to younger people and families. From this it seems more likely the opposite. They are designed for the elderly or disabled but are falsely marketed to everyone in order to get their real target audience to buy it.
Re: With greater longevity, the quest to avoid infirmities of aging is more urgent
#90So many people think anti-aging science is just about living more years, but that's missing half the picture. Anti-aging science is not just about living more years, it's about being able to live healthy and fulfilling lives both physically and mentally even as you age. Way too many people are broken by age before they die, to prevent that would be fantastic.
> So many people think anti-aging science is just about living more years, but that's missing half the picture. Anti-aging science is not just about living more years, it's about being able to live healthy and fulfilling lives both physically and mentally even as you age. Thats's 2/3rds of the picture. The other 1/3rd of "anti-aging" is selling snake-oil fads to suckers and for people with anxieties to obsess over.
> and for people with anxieties to obsess over
One man's lack of anxiety is another man's Stockholm syndrome. That in this day and age, anti-aging research is still considered fringe and frowned upon by the overarching culture, instead of being one of the top priorities of R&D worldwide, is pretty damn shameful.