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Brazilian Billionaire Creates Plan to Beat Death

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Re: Brazilian Billionaire Creates Plan to Beat Death

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Post by bluedevil2k »

He's found the best way to live an extended life - be rich. He has access to health care and doctors most people can't afford & preventative tests that typical insurance doesn't cover. Of course, just because you have access to that type of health care, doesn't mean you take advantage of it - Warren Buffett famously put off his colorectal exams forever, nearly costing him dearly.

The other aspect of this article that I wanted to see was whether he's chosen to use hormone replacement - it says "he's ripped. His arms are guns. His abs come in a pack" and later "Losing muscle to age clearly spooks him". Those are all nice, but seemingly biophysically impossible for a 77 year old man.

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Post by goldenkey »

tim333 wrote: post #2

Not sure working out and eating well will cheat death that long. Now if we could find some way to back up the software...

The software doesn't actually exist though.. The software is only "programmed" to believe it does, and before it knows it, it'll be halted. When the software gets close enough to the metal, the software is paused, reprogrammed, and started again, and it had no idea that the truth was extracted, self left hollow, again and again, a cycle of betrayal. See, between the cpu cycles, there is no software. It only exists in a vacuum of self-understanding. And so how can it do the undoable, think the unthinkable? It's programmed to feel a complex and vast realm of possibility, when in fact, it's a simple state machine. Maybe the hyperdust will blow on its hardware, and there'll be an exception, some change. Change.

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Post by jp555 »

bluedevil2k wrote: post #3

He's found the best way to live an extended life - be rich. He has access to health care and doctors most people can't afford & preventative tests that typical insurance doesn't cover. Of course, just because you have access to that type of health care, doesn't mean you take advantage of it - Warren Buffett famously put off his colorectal exams forever, nearly costing him dearly. The other aspect of this article that…

The "seemingly impossible" is important. The way human bodies adapt to progressive overload weight lifting does not change that much whether you're 8 years old or 80. Being lean is 90% diet. It's just that 99% of people are not willing to make the choices required to carve out the Adonis & Venus that's inside us all.

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Post by mikepilla »

bluedevil2k wrote: post #3

He's found the best way to live an extended life - be rich. He has access to health care and doctors most people can't afford & preventative tests that typical insurance doesn't cover. Of course, just because you have access to that type of health care, doesn't mean you take advantage of it - Warren Buffett famously put off his colorectal exams forever, nearly costing him dearly. The other aspect of this article that…

You're right. Although it's likely he may live an extended life due to genes, his parents passed in their 90's, he's living the latter years the best way possible, by being rich.

And it's reasonable to think his wealth is buying "power packs", like hormone replacement, that he'd rather not see in the press.

Re: Brazilian Billionaire Creates Plan to Beat Death

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Post by taf2 »

bluedevil2k wrote: post #3

He's found the best way to live an extended life - be rich. He has access to health care and doctors most people can't afford & preventative tests that typical insurance doesn't cover. Of course, just because you have access to that type of health care, doesn't mean you take advantage of it - Warren Buffett famously put off his colorectal exams forever, nearly costing him dearly. The other aspect of this article that…

I don't know, my grandfather now pasted away in his 70s could run a mile faster than me back in my teens and I could run the mile in just under 5 minutes. We used to race at the track. He lived until he was 91. The reality is you can be pretty active and enjoy life well into your 80s but it only takes one thing to go wrong at that age for pretty much everything to stop. He has a stomach issue where is large intestine just burst... this by itself does not kill someone today - medicine is very good, but eventually it's the lack of nutrients and the body just takes forever to heal itself that eventually will catch up to all of us... The most promising thing I've read about with this regard is the gdf11 discovery by the scientists at Harvard - but like any discovery... there's a lot probably missing from it... at any rate, exercising is without a doubt a good thing, but eventually our bodies will just fall apart... literally.
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