Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

This is heartbreaking to see (from the doc about this guy, he seemed to genuinely believe this was a good idea). A good warning about the limits of control humans have over things (and why brute-forcing it can often lead to bad outcomes).

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Post by theplumber » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC

I wonder if the methods he used are any better than all sorts of incantations or ancient “cures”…a worthy goal that proved money can’t solve the ultimate disease…yet!

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Post by Jemm » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC

I completely support people who want to be guinea pigs for health science.

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Post by twothreeone » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:01 PM UTC

hoppp wrote: post #3

Now this news is everywhere and people seem to be mocking him, but he is a good guy.

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Post by ChrisArchitect » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:02 PM UTC

[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804049

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Post by garciasn » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:03 PM UTC

hoppp wrote: post #3

Now this news is everywhere and people seem to be mocking him, but he is a good guy.

He’s unfathomably rich and unfathomably stupid; doing insane shit to his body and actively recommending others do the same and that’s why he’s being mocked.

“Good guy” or not, he’s paying the price for playing with fire.

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Post by LoganDark » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:03 PM UTC

I thought the article was talking about his blood transfusions to explain any part of how he ended up with this disease but no, he just has it (for some reason) as a result of something that happened at some point.