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Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years

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Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years

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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.

Moreover, you have to eat some kind of sugar, or you'll die.

Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years

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>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...

Sure, wine will get some sugar inside. Basically if you let the wine ferments without any intervention you will get less than 1g/l in it. Some winemakers will intervene the process end will ends up with about some amount in region of 5g per litre of sugar for red wine. This sugar content is then split to few groups of sugar, notably fructose and glucose. I am not knowledgable of Paleo diet, but I guess these non processed sugars will be ok for them.

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Why hasn't this been done?

Presumably because we are yet to find a way to detect cancer, years earlier, in bodily fluids.

Dogs have had success detecting some forms of Cancer early:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/training-dogs-to-sn...

Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years

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He'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. [UP…

It's pretty easy to prevent muscle loss.

Exercise, with weights.

Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years

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This sort of thing just screams of narcissism. When you're rich, famous, and smart, it's pretty hard to accept the fact that you're eventually going to die and you can't take any of it with you.

I'd much prefer the venture capitalists of the world to pursue what seems to be impossible over figuring out a better way for me to share photos.

Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years

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He'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?

Has he "come out" one way or another WRT pituitary hormone levels?

If the levels are unusually low, then medically monitored treatment to raise to normal levels appears to have no negative consequences, only positive ones, at all, at least with a short examination of wikipedia. Even boosting up to a bit on the high side of normal is probably medically sensible, if the patient has symptoms that correspond with excessively low levels.

There are bro-science uses, for weightlifting and some other things, which seem to cause significant health problems for people who overdose. Its rather like insulin, if you're chronically low you're in big trouble, but if the stuff were widely available OTC you'd have idiots overdosing on insulin all the time because if a little is good them surely an immense amount is many times better. that doesn't mean proper doctor supervised use of insulin by diabetics is inherently wrong, just because of a little bro-science that isn't relevant to an individual's medical treatment plan.

Re: Peter Thiel Planning to Live 120 Years

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This sort of thing just screams of narcissism. When you're rich, famous, and smart, it's pretty hard to accept the fact that you're eventually going to die and you can't take any of it with you.

Is it narcissistic to want to avoid early death? Presumably you look both ways before crossing the street.
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