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Age Reduction Breakthrough?

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Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#51
Vampires have been doing this for millennia right?

Seriously though, does putting Tom Hanks’ blood plasma into a young coronavirus nurse age them a little bit? Does the effect work in reverse?

(Just to explain the above Tom Hanks had Covid and gave plasma in a convalescent serum).

Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#52
post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a pretty mentally unhealthy way to live, mostly.

said with the entire world cooped up scared in their homes...

Yup, current situation sucks massively. Doesn't change the fact that a disproportionate fear of death is exceedingly unhealthy and robs folks of some of the joy of being alive.

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#53

Crucially, plasma treatment of the old rats [109 weeks] reduced the epigenetic ages of blood, liver and heart by a very large and significant margin, to levels that are comparable with the young rats Since I spend a lot of money on this kind of stuff I figured I'd share. The use of platelet rich plasma (PRP) is rapidly growing in the beauty industry. My wife has had PRP used in various procedures that have indeed cre…

I hope you are not just trolling. I am not sure if I enjoy more the news that there are effective treatments against aging or the rage you are going to induce with this post.

Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#54
post #25

Was told by my wife years ago that there is a Hong Kong tycoon who has been doing this for years. Supposedly hires young people to do nothing but to stay healthy and then has transfusions of their blood. Just checked and he is still alive at 91. But this echoes vampire. This reminds me of plasma treatment for covid-19 which is actually proven. Perhaps someone will create a market for that.

What's his name?

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#55
> Most of the explosion in aging research (and virtually all the venture capital startups) are looking to treat aging at the cellular level.... The truth, as Katcher understands it, is that, to a large extent, aging is coordinated system-wide via signal molecules in the blood.

So the SV execs with their fit young blood-bois were right all along?

Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a pretty mentally unhealthy way to live, mostly.

Even if it's possible?

I mean, "won't die of old age quite as soon" doesn't equate to "immortal", yea?

To be fair though, my comment was way too broad. I should have clarified that I mean a constant, overbearing dread of the prospect of death is super unhealthy. Make life suck, and effectively shortens it in the experience of the scared one. (source: did that for a long time, got healthy, stopped being scared. Sample size of 1. :-D )

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#57

Crucially, plasma treatment of the old rats [109 weeks] reduced the epigenetic ages of blood, liver and heart by a very large and significant margin, to levels that are comparable with the young rats Since I spend a lot of money on this kind of stuff I figured I'd share. The use of platelet rich plasma (PRP) is rapidly growing in the beauty industry. My wife has had PRP used in various procedures that have indeed cre…

I hope you are not just trolling. I am not sure if I enjoy more the news that there are effective treatments against aging or the rage you are going to induce with this post.

Google "vampire facial" and I can tell you from personal experience the results are impressive beyond anything else I've paid for my wife (laser facials, botox, fillers, lip injections, etc...).

I don't understand what the "rage" would come from, or why it's "pot". This is available today, and many people pay for it. The results speak for themselves. People who pay for this stuff don't make a habit of talking about it. I'm going to guess by your comment that you're not as beauty focused as some other people. For beauty focused individuals this is serious business. Ever wonder why your favorite actress over 50 "hasn't aged" past 35? It's not just plastic surgery or makeup. This is how many people make a living in industries where looking old is not rewarded.

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#58
post #25

Was told by my wife years ago that there is a Hong Kong tycoon who has been doing this for years. Supposedly hires young people to do nothing but to stay healthy and then has transfusions of their blood. Just checked and he is still alive at 91. But this echoes vampire. This reminds me of plasma treatment for covid-19 which is actually proven. Perhaps someone will create a market for that.

90 is not that old these days. Both of my parents have reached their 90s without doing anything like this. Let’s take a look at that guy in 20 years and see how he is doing.

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#59
post #7

Do we really want to live in a world where the billionaires live forever?

Economically, and historically, the more wealthy tend to try out the expensive, new technologies, then as market forces play out, such technologies become cheaper, to where most average workers can afford them (see genome sequencing costs decline over the past 15 years.) We need wealthy people to try out the expensive new advances. Just because someone is wealthy doesn’t necessarily mean they’re apart of the “evil bi…

Agreed. I think. It is interesting how much difference in meaning the space in "a part of" vs "apart of" makes.

Re: Age Reduction Breakthrough?

#60
The laziness of believing that we are going to have a rejuvenation pill in the future is a big scam/joke. Just like pills to recover from baldness. Most people are running on 10, 20% of their full healthy, no pills are never going to change that. Not even a weight reduction pill will help the ones who wants to still be able to eat junk food and drink soda.
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