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

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Post by Melatonic » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:50 PM UTC

rtkwe wrote: post #48

Melatonic wrote: post #37

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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.

Yeah that's what I thought. Which is pretty weird.

Funnily enough donating blood actually can have big benefits for health - they did a study on Firemen who have massively higher PFAS blood levels (exposure to fire fighting foams). Turns out by regularly donating blood it forces the body to make new blood which was the only reliable way to dilute the "forever chemicals".

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

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Post by pixel_popping » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:53 PM UTC

rtkwe wrote: post #52

pixel_popping wrote: post #38

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It literally is, and in many circles (illicit drugs, bodybuilding, cosmestic...) it's thanks to those community that we have early-on data. Go look for information about latest psychedelic derivatives, user reviews is the only thing we have accessible, it is Science, a doctor is aware of side-effects because of reporting, user reporting (assuming relatively trusted) is genuinely useful for the world. It's also useful…

It's not good data for any particular procedure because he's doing so many at the same time so you can't really use the data to support any particular procedure in a rigorous way.

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

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Post by pixel_popping » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:57 PM UTC

Clent wrote: post #54

pixel_popping wrote: post #38

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It literally is, and in many circles (illicit drugs, bodybuilding, cosmestic...) it's thanks to those community that we have early-on data. Go look for information about latest psychedelic derivatives, user reviews is the only thing we have accessible, it is Science, a doctor is aware of side-effects because of reporting, user reporting (assuming relatively trusted) is genuinely useful for the world. It's also useful…

If creating research data means one is performing science, the word means nothing.

Why not? How does a report of someone taking X drug and doing bloodwork every week and posting it for everyone to see is nothing?

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

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Post by LoganDark » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 5:58 PM UTC

Melatonic wrote: post #61

rtkwe wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yeah that's what I thought. Which is pretty weird. Funnily enough donating blood actually can have big benefits for health - they did a study on Firemen who have massively higher PFAS blood levels (exposure to fire fighting foams). Turns out by regularly donating blood it forces the body to make new blood which was the only reliable way to dilute the "forever chemicals".

Is the solution really just to give away the PFAS to blood recipients?

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

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Post by somenameforme » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:10 PM UTC

neonstatic wrote: post #59

khalic wrote: post #58

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Nothing in his statement talked about the poor being better, just that every rich person becomes so by taking from others.

By that logic, every poor person becomes so by giving to others. Neither statement is true. They equated being rich with being evil, which is plain stupid and I don't understand why you are defending it.

I agree with you, but I think it's also easy to see where people like the person you're responding to are coming from. Corporations have become pretty nasty in modern times. It's no longer really about offering the best product for the best price, but instead coercing and exploiting people so much as possible to squeeze every single penny out of them, offering as little as possible in return, and then somehow turning everything into rent.

Age is often a factor here. If you're older then you've known a different world of capitalism than what's being put on display in contemporary times. By contrast for younger people, this sketchiness is all they've ever known.

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

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Post by copperx » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:48 PM UTC

somenameforme wrote: post #50

copperx wrote: post #17

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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.

> he is 100% engaging in pure science. Hypothesis, experiment, data, falsify, repeat.

For starters, you don't conduct two simultaneous experiments on the same subject because of confounding variables, let alone 50.

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

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Post by Wurdan » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

Melatonic wrote: post #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 exerc…

The article suggests he eats a vegan diet and exercises daily, so it's not like he's just popping pills on the couch between McDonalds meals. He seems like a complete loon in every respect, but it seems a bit unfair to say he just wants to take pills and nothing else.

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

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Post by trilogic » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

jmcgough wrote: post #22

trilogic wrote: post #12

There is nothing more valuable than doing what you believe and love in the life. Especially when doing no harm, furthermore trying to solve a great problem with great benefits for society. Is incredible but understandable, that many don´t get it.

He's going about this in the least scientific way, though. When n=1 and he has a million confounding variables, it reads more like fear of his own mortality than a meaningful research project. And this is a business for him now, he sells supplements through his Blueprint program.

What he did is filtering through all the noise and getting straight to the point, doing what he believes no one else has done and leading by example. We can argue about ethical and non conventional ways ofc that need to be optimized. The noise like this post comments will always be there, but doesn´t really matter actually :). Then being jealous or "skeptic" because he made some money out of it, it is nonsense. An example: most people die because vitamins, minerals, amino acids deficiency every day (an easy one is vit D). How is that bad, Informing and providing them with the solution? (ignorance at it´s finest). Reminds me of how ancient people was burning a "witch" cause knew how to heal with herbs.

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

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Post by Wurdan » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC

pixel_popping wrote: post #63

Clent wrote: post #54

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If creating research data means one is performing science, the word means nothing.

Why not? How does a report of someone taking X drug and doing bloodwork every week and posting it for everyone to see is nothing?

I mean for one thing - the placebo effect exists. That's why double blind testing of new drugs is the standard

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

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Post by tavavex » Wed, Jul 08, 2026, 7:01 PM UTC

neonstatic wrote: post #57

elzbardico wrote: post #55

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Some of worst evilest motherfuckers I knew were dirty poor, and some of them were filthy rich. Evil Motherfuckerness seems to be uniformly distributed across the social strata.

I agree. I think it has nothing to do with how much a person has and everything with who they choose to be. Unfortunately, stupid communist ideas are very popular on this website. Say "eat the rich" and they will clap.

A single amoral poor person doesn't matter because they can't do anything to you short of physical violence. A single amoral ultra-wealthy person can and will make sure everyone plays by their rules, they are unstoppable forces in society. Not every evil person ends up being rich, but the incentives in our society basically ensure that past a certain point of extreme wealth we're selecting for the most ruthless and self-centered people who know how to play the game. Even an initially good person that managed to climb the ranks on merit or real innovation eventually has to make the choice between ethics and getting more money, and we know which way they tend to go.

HN is/was a bastion of venture capital and big tech. This is literally Y Combinator. Maybe reflect on why the tides may be slightly shifting away from idealist absolutism even in a place like this. You'll probably find genuine grievances and criticism instead of Red Scare cardboard cutouts that you'd look so good taking down.