Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years
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Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years
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Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years
#2He's not concerned about cancer, but he takes human growth hormone to limit risk of... bone injuries? Am I out of my mind or is this a several-orders-of-magnitude confusion of relative risks?
Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years
#3>Thiel said he also follows a Paleo diet, doesn’t eat sugar, drinks red wine and runs regularly.
But red wine has sugar in it...
Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years
#4He's not concerned about cancer, but he takes human growth hormone to limit risk of... bone injuries? Am I out of my mind or is this a several-orders-of-magnitude confusion of relative risks?
It's not as clear-cut as that. The risk of losing muscle leading to bone failure leading to inability to exercise leading to general decline in health leading to premature (if your goal is 120 years) death is very high, bordering on certainty. So increasing your risk of cancer by a few percentage points for a significantly improved shot at an extra few decades may not be quite as crazy as it seems at first blush.
[UPDATE:] Note that I'm not saying that Thiel is right, only that his position is not a self-evident "several-orders-of-magnitude confusion of relative risks".
Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years
#5>Thiel said he also follows a Paleo diet, doesn’t eat sugar, drinks red wine and runs regularly. But red wine has sugar in it...
Not all sugars are created equal. In a dry red wine, most of the fructose is gone, replaced with alcohol. Fructose is what causes most of the problems.
Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years
#6>Thiel said he also follows a Paleo diet, doesn’t eat sugar, drinks red wine and runs regularly. But red wine has sugar in it...
Artificial sugar. Even some natural fruits are bad due to the high levels of natural sugar (e.g. kiwis)
Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years
#7>Thiel said he also follows a Paleo diet, doesn’t eat sugar, drinks red wine and runs regularly. But red wine has sugar in it...
Which is why it said doesn't "eat" sugar and not doesn't "drink" sugar.
Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years
#8>Thiel said he also follows a Paleo diet, doesn’t eat sugar, drinks red wine and runs regularly. But red wine has sugar in it...
Not all sugars are created equal. In a dry red wine, most of the fructose is gone, replaced with alcohol. Fructose is what causes most of the problems.
Moreover, people who say they don't eat sugar don't mean they'll never ever eat sugar in any amount. I don't eat sugar - but I'm okay with a desert once per month or something. I'm also willing to eat things which have minute amount of sugar on a regular basis.
Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years
#9I feel like the cure to cancer is simply early detection.
Imagine some sort of device you could put in your toilet that could analyze your urine or some sort of painless blood test in your tooth brush that can let you know years before symptoms that you have cancer.
I think cheap, early and often screenings will be what revolutionize health.
Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years
#10Oh great, another article about someone who read a few studies, then basing their entire life on it.
Enough of this crap already.