A one-man experiment in anti-aging
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A one-man experiment in anti-aging
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Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#2Jim's page on longevity (looks like it's from the 90s, but it's not): http://www.greenray4ever.com/longevity.html
Jim's biography: http://www.greenray4ever.com/index-88.html
Although his website looks like a mess, a lot of the stuff he's doing and talking about are solid. I posted this, because he's essentially a computer engineer... or use to be.
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#3Jim's page on longevity (looks like it's from the 90s, but it's not): http://www.greenray4ever.com/longevity.html Jim's biography: http://www.greenray4ever.com/index-88.html Although his website looks like a mess, a lot of the stuff he's doing and talking about are solid. I posted this, because he's essentially a computer engineer... or use to be.
How old is he?
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#4Could there possibly be two worse pictures to compare if you want to see if someone has aged (visually) or not?
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#5Jim's page on longevity (looks like it's from the 90s, but it's not): http://www.greenray4ever.com/longevity.html Jim's biography: http://www.greenray4ever.com/index-88.html Although his website looks like a mess, a lot of the stuff he's doing and talking about are solid. I posted this, because he's essentially a computer engineer... or use to be.
Why is the quality of photos he takes of himself also like they were taken in the 90's.
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#6Jim's page on longevity (looks like it's from the 90s, but it's not): http://www.greenray4ever.com/longevity.html Jim's biography: http://www.greenray4ever.com/index-88.html Although his website looks like a mess, a lot of the stuff he's doing and talking about are solid. I posted this, because he's essentially a computer engineer... or use to be.
How old is he?
He's 65 according to the main page.
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#7Jim's page on longevity (looks like it's from the 90s, but it's not): http://www.greenray4ever.com/longevity.html Jim's biography: http://www.greenray4ever.com/index-88.html Although his website looks like a mess, a lot of the stuff he's doing and talking about are solid. I posted this, because he's essentially a computer engineer... or use to be.
How old is he?
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Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#8Could there possibly be two worse pictures to compare if you want to see if someone has aged (visually) or not?
Particularly because that's the only evidence he's collecting to show that his experiments -- lots & lots of concurrent experiments that he's continually changing for murky reasons -- are working.
He just... says stuff like this:
> At first I expected to be able to set back my telomere clock by up to 8 or 9 years per year, but subsequently revised this to about 5.1 years per year.
> The astragalus extract actually finally turned out to work rather better, in fact, than TA-65.
...with no explanation at all. He's clearly learned some domain-specific vocabulary, but spending all of his money on supplements rather than any kind of testing whatsoever, or even taking the time to work out a more scientific approach.
I don't see how his "experiments" have any scientific value beyond "here's a guy who ate (or rubbed into his scalp, or whatever) X quantity of Y every day for a few months or years, and it didn't seem to do him any serious harm".
Edit: saying "whatsoever" 3 times is overkill...
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#9Could there possibly be two worse pictures to compare if you want to see if someone has aged (visually) or not?
Agreed. Couple of blurry photos (especially second one, from 2013), plus angle in which second photo is taken is very misleading - people can look younger or older just by changing angle. Good, no-BS article must have 2 clear, crisp, hi-res frontal photos for fair comparison, together with EXIF info (yes, I know it can be faked but still...). Furthermore, on first photo he is frowned, on second he is smiling which is another suspicious point. All in all, to me it looks like this story has got no substance.
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#10Slightly frightening that he takes telomerase activators one week (to reduce effects of ageing) and telomerase inhibitors the next (to reduce likelihood of cancer from telomerase activation, presumably).