His profile on Longecity forums: http://www.longecity.org/forum/user/4099-jamesagreen/ (You need an account to view it)
Here's one of his lasts post there: http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/52748-can-we-get-straig...
A one-man experiment in anti-aging
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Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#12If he's 65-66 now, he looks way older than a man in his 60 in the photo from 2007 (strangely the only photo not blurred on his site), isn't he?
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#13The bad quality of pictures don't help the story. Both his pictures and the website itself look like they were made in the 90s.
The author of the "interview" also admits that he has not physically met Jim Green.
What also does not help is that almost every hyperlink in the story goes back to Jim's page as a source. This does not seem like very high quality journalism to me.
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#14Medicine has a long and illustrious history of self-experimentation. Barry Marshall (lives in Perth, my dad worked in the same lab!) won a Nobel prize for proving peptic ulcers are caused by bacteria (not stress etc) and can be cured with antibiotics. As part of his research he drank a culture containing bacteria from a patient's ulcer (yuk!), became horribly infected and cured himself with antibiotics.
Sometimes self-experimentation turned out to be fatal (see Carrion's disease for example).
Like the article says, I am very grateful to the guy for putting his own body on the line... and I hope he too wins a Nobel prize!
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#15His profile on Longecity forums: http://www.longecity.org/forum/user/4099-jamesagreen/ (You need an account to view it) Here's one of his lasts post there: http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/52748-can-we-get-straig...
looking at his avatar - I'm not sure he's sharing the truth. If you're running all of these cutting edge anti aging experiments surely can upload a non pixelated photo?
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#16His profile on Longecity forums: http://www.longecity.org/forum/user/4099-jamesagreen/ (You need an account to view it) Here's one of his lasts post there: http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/52748-can-we-get-straig...
looking at his avatar - I'm not sure he's sharing the truth. If you're running all of these cutting edge anti aging experiments surely can upload a non pixelated photo?
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#17It says "scienceblog". It says "experiment". And yet I didn't see any science. Did I miss it?
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#18His profile on Longecity forums: http://www.longecity.org/forum/user/4099-jamesagreen/ (You need an account to view it) Here's one of his lasts post there: http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/52748-can-we-get-straig...
looking at his avatar - I'm not sure he's sharing the truth. If you're running all of these cutting edge anti aging experiments surely can upload a non pixelated photo?
From the horrible looking site to his blurry/pixelated photos and the hundreds of links on each of his posts (Not necessarily bad this one), there's definitely something not right with this guy.
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#19Jim'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.
The low-quality of all photos always made me wonder, too.
Re: A one-man experiment in anti-aging
#20Medicine has a long and illustrious history of self-experimentation. Barry Marshall (lives in Perth, my dad worked in the same lab!) won a Nobel prize for proving peptic ulcers are caused by bacteria (not stress etc) and can be cured with antibiotics. As part of his research he drank a culture containing bacteria from a patient's ulcer (yuk!), became horribly infected and cured himself with antibiotics. Sometimes sel…
Yes, self-experimentation and knowingly risking the most precious thing there is - your own life, to advance science and help others, is one of the most heroic things. I'm not sure if Jim is doing anything as heroic and with the same admirable motives, but I really hope he's and other self-experimenters contribute to medicine and science, because really the pace, cost, and the moral concerns of studies slow progress down tremendously.