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Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by elcritch »

WarmWash wrote: post #24
Yapping7880 wrote: post #16

I really appreciate how the author dramatizes hypothyroidism, which I've also had since 25, and in the modern world, it's like the most treatable, easy to live with condition on earth. Taking a tiny pill once daily, with the lone drawback that as soon as you take the pill you have a 5min timer to taking a dump. I was reading this and didn't understand the point until I got to this: "I overhauled my medical team earli…

Ehhh, not really, I have been loosely following him for a while and he is overall pretty genuine (i.e. laser focused on his health experiment above all else) He was the founder of Braintree which sold to paypal for $800M. He then was divorced and listless with near infinite money, so decided to see what would happen if money was no object and you tried to live a perfectly healthy life as dictated by current medical r…

Great info, and seems less likely cash grab than some.

Still a scam can include other "deceptive schemes" – maybe he's just trying to get fame or plain old attention.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by velcrovan »

WarmWash wrote: post #24
Yapping7880 wrote: post #16

I really appreciate how the author dramatizes hypothyroidism, which I've also had since 25, and in the modern world, it's like the most treatable, easy to live with condition on earth. Taking a tiny pill once daily, with the lone drawback that as soon as you take the pill you have a 5min timer to taking a dump. I was reading this and didn't understand the point until I got to this: "I overhauled my medical team earli…

Ehhh, not really, I have been loosely following him for a while and he is overall pretty genuine (i.e. laser focused on his health experiment above all else) He was the founder of Braintree which sold to paypal for $800M. He then was divorced and listless with near infinite money, so decided to see what would happen if money was no object and you tried to live a perfectly healthy life as dictated by current medical r…

"he's rich therefore he has no incentive to scam anyone" is not a good heuristic, though it will help you get a degree from Trump University.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by elcritch »

slifin wrote: post #22

I wouldn't be surprised if it's the glyphosate We need to get back to regenerative farming that already has time proven solutions for weeds (ok maybe not the same yield straight away but at least its sustainable) If your soil is just a chemical laden dust bowl then there are 2nd and 3 order effects from that

Better robotic weeding drones using lasers or spray guns to kill weeds. We can still get high yields and cut back on weed killers and possibly pesticides if they can do pests too.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by adverbly »

iammjm wrote: post #18

It's kinda disgusting how many people seem to enjoy his misfortune. Even though he never hurt anyone and has been an overall positive, if peculiar, person. I hope he recovers or at least contains this and continues with his mission

Same.

I'd like to see this guy die at 100 or something because I personally think immortality is bad for the world, but like 50 or whatever he is now is just sad. He could do a lot of good for the world by sharing lessons to help people live healthier lives.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by nwah1 »

WarmWash wrote: post #24
Yapping7880 wrote: post #16

I really appreciate how the author dramatizes hypothyroidism, which I've also had since 25, and in the modern world, it's like the most treatable, easy to live with condition on earth. Taking a tiny pill once daily, with the lone drawback that as soon as you take the pill you have a 5min timer to taking a dump. I was reading this and didn't understand the point until I got to this: "I overhauled my medical team earli…

Ehhh, not really, I have been loosely following him for a while and he is overall pretty genuine (i.e. laser focused on his health experiment above all else) He was the founder of Braintree which sold to paypal for $800M. He then was divorced and listless with near infinite money, so decided to see what would happen if money was no object and you tried to live a perfectly healthy life as dictated by current medical r…

Just because someone has a high net worth does not mean they are not trying to scam people, and it is good to be on the lookout for that.

Every human being is self-interested, at least to some degree. So, it is perfectly expected that he seeks money, fame, status, power, sex, etc.

But he doesn't seem to exhibit these to an abnormal degree, and in any event, you can just evaluate his claims based on evidence and logic and they either succeed or fail.

Just because the Wright Brothers were selling airplanes doesn't mean that they didn't fly.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by Jonovono »

WarmWash wrote: post #24
Yapping7880 wrote: post #16

I really appreciate how the author dramatizes hypothyroidism, which I've also had since 25, and in the modern world, it's like the most treatable, easy to live with condition on earth. Taking a tiny pill once daily, with the lone drawback that as soon as you take the pill you have a 5min timer to taking a dump. I was reading this and didn't understand the point until I got to this: "I overhauled my medical team earli…

Ehhh, not really, I have been loosely following him for a while and he is overall pretty genuine (i.e. laser focused on his health experiment above all else) He was the founder of Braintree which sold to paypal for $800M. He then was divorced and listless with near infinite money, so decided to see what would happen if money was no object and you tried to live a perfectly healthy life as dictated by current medical r…

I used to buy his act too but once he started doing psychedelics and live streaming it, it became clear it was all just a scam

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by ryandvm »

WarmWash wrote: post #24
Yapping7880 wrote: post #16

I really appreciate how the author dramatizes hypothyroidism, which I've also had since 25, and in the modern world, it's like the most treatable, easy to live with condition on earth. Taking a tiny pill once daily, with the lone drawback that as soon as you take the pill you have a 5min timer to taking a dump. I was reading this and didn't understand the point until I got to this: "I overhauled my medical team earli…

Ehhh, not really, I have been loosely following him for a while and he is overall pretty genuine (i.e. laser focused on his health experiment above all else) He was the founder of Braintree which sold to paypal for $800M. He then was divorced and listless with near infinite money, so decided to see what would happen if money was no object and you tried to live a perfectly healthy life as dictated by current medical r…

I dunno. Billionaires are wont to pick up a lot of fanciful special interests like rockets or climate change or ending world hunger, but Brian Johnson deciding that he's going to devote his fortune to his own immortality is like 7 red flags rolled into one - not to mention that it's like 50% of the comic book villain arcs.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by moduspol »

WarmWash wrote: post #24
Yapping7880 wrote: post #16

I really appreciate how the author dramatizes hypothyroidism, which I've also had since 25, and in the modern world, it's like the most treatable, easy to live with condition on earth. Taking a tiny pill once daily, with the lone drawback that as soon as you take the pill you have a 5min timer to taking a dump. I was reading this and didn't understand the point until I got to this: "I overhauled my medical team earli…

Ehhh, not really, I have been loosely following him for a while and he is overall pretty genuine (i.e. laser focused on his health experiment above all else) He was the founder of Braintree which sold to paypal for $800M. He then was divorced and listless with near infinite money, so decided to see what would happen if money was no object and you tried to live a perfectly healthy life as dictated by current medical r…

I buy a lot of his supplements. They're competitively priced for what they are, and what's in them is based on the studies and science they dig up. Not all of them will be cost-effective for whatever benefit you're trying to gain, but that's the case with all supplements.

Re: Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself

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Post by WarmWash »

velcrovan wrote: post #33
WarmWash wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ehhh, not really, I have been loosely following him for a while and he is overall pretty genuine (i.e. laser focused on his health experiment above all else) He was the founder of Braintree which sold to paypal for $800M. He then was divorced and listless with near infinite money, so decided to see what would happen if money was no object and you tried to live a perfectly healthy life as dictated by current medical r…

"he's rich therefore he has no incentive to scam anyone" is not a good heuristic, though it will help you get a degree from Trump University.

I think a better take would be "He publicly shares everything about his lifestyle and routine rather than paywalling them, so if he is running a scam, he probably needs some pointers"

Even his supplements are just concoctions of stuff anyone can buy, the ingredients are fully transparent. Anyone can follow what he does without giving him a penny.

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