What is this guys agenda? Seems like he’s on the path to setup a cult.
He's a Mormon, so it wouldn't be out of character.
Blueprint health protocol
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> There is a very weird lack of interest in slowing down or reversing aging Uh. We don't even know why we get heartburn and how to treat it. You comment sounds like, why does my toddler lack interest in reading Shakespeare.
There are many people who completely healed it with a drastic dietary change: going low carb, going full carnivore, going vegan, eliminating junk food.
Still doesn't say anything about what causes heartburn. Why did they have make drastic changes when they were fine eating carbs before heartburn? Why doesn't that work for everyone? How long did this relief last for ppl it works for?
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the vegan diet was one of the outcomes from his experiments (where the goal is to optimize for anti-aging), I'd be fine with it. But it's a restriction he put on himself based on a ethical/philosophical motivation.
Why would he have to experiment with it? He didn’t have to experiment with exercise before starting an exercise plan.
I'm not deeply familiar with all the things he tried, but from what I understand, he tried many different changes in nutrition and lifestyle. He also attempts to optimize his sleep schedule and exercise plan for his goal of slowing down/reversing aging.
Nutrition is a very big component of his plan/blueprint and excluding a very big chunk of the search space (animal based foods) doesn't give me as much confidence that he found an optimal or close to optimal plan (especially compared to the effort required) to achieve his goal.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have so much lower hanging fruit to tackle first that doesn’t even require research: what’s the point in extending your miserable life a couple more miserable years? Adding a decade on to your life of extreme privilege is worthwhile, but for the majority of people on earth, simply getting them on to a nutritious diet would do far more for their quality of life and their lifespan than slowing down aging ever could.…
> Slowing down aging is like going to space: it’s a fun complicated problem for nerds to think about but it is utterly meaningless to the quality of 99% of lives on earth. Except that aging is the causative factor behind Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, AMD, and a battery of other illnesses
so they are not illnesses at all? just mere aging?
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#146So if you devote an inordinate amount of time and money on longevity, you can know what it feels like to be a 45 year old man in a 42.5 year old's body
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#147I think i've mentioned this here before, but a friend of mine (Andrew Steele) is an anti-aging biologist, and has written a book on the subject. He's an excellent communicator, and a while ago did a video examining Bryan Johnson's claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rs_JK-pTTQ
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Slowing down aging is like going to space: it’s a fun complicated problem for nerds to think about but it is utterly meaningless to the quality of 99% of lives on earth. Except that aging is the causative factor behind Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cancer, AMD, and a battery of other illnesses
so they are not illnesses at all? just mere aging?
They're illnesses for which age is the biggest contributing factor of whether you'll get sick, and how sick you'll get. Nearly every disease affects you more severely the older you are.
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Oof. If we defeat aging, we'll have to contend with: * unbounded population increase * wealth and power directly proportional to age * dictators and other bad people not dying Not insurmountable but all of those big problems would require massive sociological shifts.
> dictators and other bad people not dying Equally true of trying to cure cancer, or infant mortality, or medicine generally - you're giving healthy years of life to good and bad people alike.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a very weird lack of interest in slowing down or reversing aging in the scientific/medical community in general. To me it seems like it should be a top priority. Life is extremely short and extending our lives shouldn't be a terribly hard feat given there are plenty of biologically immortal and long lived organisms all over our planet.
Treating illnesses, diseases and injuries should have higher priority, as they impact QOL and mortality much more. Once almost everyone gets to age 80 in health, then we can tackle extending the life span.
More people will get to age 80 if we tackle the causes of aging