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

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Post by catigula »

queenkjuul wrote: post #62
sgt101 wrote: post #9

I know many will draw a line between Hubris and Nemesis here, but I feel really sorry for this guy and just wish some good health for him. I personally find the whole long life influncing and health hacking movement annoying, but I recognise that many, if not most, of the folks involved are acting in good faith and just trying to feel better themselves or help others feel better. He probably can't any more (I have no…

> But if he can I hope he has a beer and just relaxes and gets some happy vibes for a time. He can't; not because of his stomach, but because he's spiritually incapable of enjoying a beer

Wow what a piece of shit.

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

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Post by colpabar »

moduspol wrote: post #39
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…

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.

Could you elaborate? Which ones do you buy, what do they do, and what made you want to start taking them?

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

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Post by jollyllama »

WarmWash wrote: post #27
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

Anything that kills yield drives up the cost of food. So while organic sustainable farming works and produces food, what is not shared is that the yield per unit work is dramatically higher for the chemical laden stuff.

Sure, but we'll save money on healthcare and prescriptions instead.

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

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Post by catigula »

nwah1 wrote: post #36
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…

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…

>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.

Bit of a reach there.

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

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Post by moduspol »

colpabar wrote: post #72
moduspol wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Could you elaborate? Which ones do you buy, what do they do, and what made you want to start taking them?

I take:

- Essential Capsules - it's like a multivitamin except with better stuff. I've seen mixed evidence that multivitamins actually provide much benefit if you're already taking C and D. This fills the same kind of gap except with a lot more beneficial stuff in it

- Omega-3 - it's like fish oil except from algae, so it has fewer heavy metals. Fish oil is well understood to be a good supplement for the Omega 3, but it can be tricky to source and often contains elevated levels of heavy metals

- Longevity mix - daily shake with a bunch of different stuff for sleep / metabolism / healthy aging / performance / recovery / etc. I'm already drinking protein shakes and such each morning so it seemed like a fairly cheap way to get a little more good stuff

- Snake oil (yes it's called that) - it's just extra virgin olive oil that is very carefully sourced. Apparently olive oil is one of those things that is often mislabeled and mischaracterized as something it's not when sold en masse. Extra virgin olive oil is also one of those supplements that has good evidence for daily limited consumption, and I trust it more with someone's name on it who has something to lose if it were found to be mislabeled

You're welcome to peruse his site [1] if you want more specific details. Each one goes in-depth on what the key ingredients are and why they're in there.

[1] https://blueprint.bryanjohnson.com

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

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Post by citadel_melon »

moduspol wrote: post #76
colpabar wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate? Which ones do you buy, what do they do, and what made you want to start taking them?

I take: - Essential Capsules - it's like a multivitamin except with better stuff. I've seen mixed evidence that multivitamins actually provide much benefit if you're already taking C and D. This fills the same kind of gap except with a lot more beneficial stuff in it - Omega-3 - it's like fish oil except from algae, so it has fewer heavy metals. Fish oil is well understood to be a good supplement for the Omega 3, but…

Do you track your daily macros/calories and have you done progressive overload strength training continuously for 5+ years, logging your workouts?

I find most people will usually hyper optimize things like buying supplements and wrist trackers that have little p-size effects before optimizing things like muscle mass and macros/calories that the scientific literature actually says have sizable effect sizes.

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

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Post by Noaidi »

WarmWash wrote: post #55
Noaidi wrote: post #49

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Yes, that was it for me too. Because anyone who understands neurobiology understands how psychedelics work and wouldn’t bother with them.

Sarcasm? https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/research/clinics-and-pr... https://psychedelics.cornell.edu/ https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/research-unit/center-science... https://psychedelics-study.harvard.edu/research/ https://www.hopkinspsychedelic.org/

I do not get the point of this. Psychedelics work by activating the Serotonin 2A receptor.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10061-7

This is pretty settled science. So what is the big deal about taking a drug that affects a receptor? Will it cure anything? No. Because the body resorts to increasing receptor density for the drug.

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