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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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Post by rtkwe »

LoganDark wrote: post #64
Melatonic wrote: post #61

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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?

I mean as a solution for high PFAS levels simply drawing blood and throwing it away would also work just fine too. Also the levels in the blood the recipient receives would be diluted by their own blood too unless they were getting a lot of PFAS'd blood often.

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Post by hoppp »

khalic wrote: post #58
neonstatic wrote: post #41

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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.

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

He sold his company to another company. How is that taking from others?

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Post by jerlam »

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.

There are some side effects with blood transfusions that may be an experiment in itself. For example, blood bags can transfer plasticizers to the blood, which is a method to detect if athletes have been doping.

https://www.wada-ama.org/en/resources/scientific-research/ov...

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

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Post by hoppp »

neonstatic wrote: post #59
khalic wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Really, people have a specific "hate heuristic" and whatever triggers that they will hate.

It can't really be reasoned with because it's a subconscious reflex.

Heuristics overwrite reasoning for most people because they don't consume much resources in the brain, the cheaper path is selected by default.

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Post by Hoodedcrow »

cannonpr wrote: post #11

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…

It's funny how I haven't even clicked on the article yet, but the title and this first comment IMMEDIATELY made it clear which guy this is about

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Post by Hoodedcrow »

culi wrote: post #28

Someone should make a website showing the oldest living biohackers. Presenting it as a sort of leaderboard edit: I don't actually ethically endorse this. I was moreso poking fun at the morbidity of the biohacking influencer space which invites people to obsess over an influencer's health and inevitably turns into something gruesome when said influencer has a tragic health outcome.

The best biohacker is some 100+ year-old Japanese lady who just eats healthy and avoids stress

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Post by pixel_popping »

Wurdan wrote: post #69
pixel_popping wrote: post #63

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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

Agreed, but many drugs have a direct effect, not subtle and it's pretty much immediate to know, let say a user try that new sub-q injectable from a shady forum that discuss X compound that is supposed to cure acne, then follow protocols from other users, then do their report, often with photos, it's useful even if it's not standard, as you have a clear picture of before/after usage of that drug (it's probably fair to say that the acne clearing is that isn't placebo effect), it's useful even after a drug is authorized on the market as well as it gives additional user reports of efficiency. Realistically, some data is better than none.

Saying that wouldn't be useful is kinda like saying HN/Reddit isn't useful because it's all anecdotal, that applies to almost all topics in life.

Lastly, let's not pretend that most doctors do actually follow properly a patient blood before/during/after a course of a drug, in most cases, doctor will just ask How did it go, any side effects?... That's a new "data" for the doc, all anecdotal, almost the same value as a "trusted" rando on Reddit.

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Post by AndrewDucker »

Melatonic wrote: post #35
bglazer wrote: post #21

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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's actually Bio"hacked" himself though ! Most people just take supplements. Isn't getting "hacked" suppose to be a bad thing ?

For someone on "hacker news" you're showing a surprising lack of knowledge of the multiple meanings of the word "hack" in computer circles.

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Post by jmcgough »

trilogic wrote: post #68
jmcgough wrote: post #22

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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 ex…

> most people die because vitamins, minerals, amino acids deficiency every day

The most common cause of death globally is cardiovascular disease. The people buying supplements from him are buying his longevity supplements which likely have limited benefits to anyone.

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