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Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

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Re: Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

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

Being good and wealthy are mutually exclusive.

I hope you are writing this from a really poor place, like a Brazilian favela. People there must be really good. Why would you not live with them? I am certain you are not some hypocrite, who lives in an affluent, evil place. That would really disappoint me, because I really want to believe you are not full of BS.

Re: Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

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To add some context, this is a relatively common form of gastritis impacting depending on location 3-5% of the population called Autoimmune Gastritis. Now his biohacking might be related it might not, the issue with the guy is that he does too many interventions at the same time so it’s hard to really tell what’s going on. He also has a core belief of equating looking younger with his interventions working, to his de…

Whenever I look up diseases and it reports a statistic such as "3-5%" I often feel like either I must not be interpreting it correctly, or it is so region-biased as to not be useful for how I'm consuming the data. Because it's hard to reconcile that apparently in the ballpark of 1 in 20 people have this?

It seems extremely common as people age. Your body just starts to break down as we get older and this is one, amongst many, ways that this manifests. A quick search suggests it shows up in about 50% of people over 70. [1]

[1] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11879357/

Re: Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

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To add some context, this is a relatively common form of gastritis impacting depending on location 3-5% of the population called Autoimmune Gastritis. Now his biohacking might be related it might not, the issue with the guy is that he does too many interventions at the same time so it’s hard to really tell what’s going on. He also has a core belief of equating looking younger with his interventions working, to his de…

He's also one of the more bizarre publicly, with him using his son as a blood bag. Not unique but the publicity of it was a bit unusual.

Re: Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

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He hired real doctors right? Not like witch doctors or faith healers or something? I wonder was there an issue of them not being able to tell the boss no, no matter how screwy his ideas were?

I know Putin is also doing a similar thing, he has a team of doctors who are supposed to keep him alive forever. But he certainly seems the sort of boss you cant disagree with or give bad news to (we can see that in how he commands the war) so maybe he will also hopefully die sooner than we think.

Re: Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

#45
These people always crack me up. They don't actually want to follow the science - they just want to take a bunch of pills (easy mode) and look good.

If you really wanna live a long time you probably need to be carefully making tons of fermented food the way our grandparents did but with the advances of modern science and monitoring. And of course eat an otherwise healthy diet with moderate and varied amounts of exercise and low stress.

And of course win the genetic + luck lottery.

Doubt the guy would be having GI issues if he was eating his own homemade Natto everyday

Edit: went to the guys site and the first product he's selling is a gut health pill that makes a lot of bold claims. Bullshit meter is off the charts

Re: Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

#47
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's hubristic and selfish. None of his "research" is going to benefit anyone (himself included), making this essentially a huge waste of time and resources. Bryan will die just like all the rest of us, despite being very rich and self-obsessed. He could spend his enormous wealth on supporting real research and proper studies on real diseases that hurt lots of people. Instead he's acting like just another huckster pr…

> He could spend his enormous wealth on supporting real research and proper studies on real diseases that hurt lots of people There we go again. There's always that one guy in the crowd, who knows better what you should be spending your money on. Also, that guy has the moral right to tell you. He is a really good person, you know! So you should listen! You should also thank him. > He deserves to be mocked. Just look…

Yes exactly, there are good and bad things to spend money on. This is a bad way to spend money for the reasons I explained above.

Re: Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

#48

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.

He donates blood or ?

No he takes blood transfusions from his son along with a lot of other questionable procedures and supplements. No one really knows why he developed this problem and it's pretty common but in association with so many exotic medical procedures it's spawned a lot of assumptions about the cause.

Re: Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

#49
post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He could spend his enormous wealth on supporting real research and proper studies on real diseases that hurt lots of people There we go again. There's always that one guy in the crowd, who knows better what you should be spending your money on. Also, that guy has the moral right to tell you. He is a really good person, you know! So you should listen! You should also thank him. > He deserves to be mocked. Just look…

Yes exactly, there are good and bad things to spend money on. This is a bad way to spend money for the reasons I explained above.

What he spends his money on is none of your business.

Re: Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

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post #17
post #6

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

What he's doing is not science.

Why would you say that? I'm not a fan of the guy, because I think he's searching for unicorns, but he is 100% engaging in pure science. Hypothesis, experiment, data, falsify, repeat.
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