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Does a real anti-aging pill already exist?

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Re: Does a real anti-aging pill already exist?

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Wow! This: "A Canadian medical expedition had collected the soil from beneath one of the mysterious stone heads on Easter Island, a speck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean." .. combined with this story: http://www.disclose.tv/news/Study_Ancient_Humans_Bred_with_C... .. I'm starting to think that Szukalski wasn't such a crackpot after all. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Szukalski ) Are we perhaps on th…

I spent a few minutes trying to figure out whether there is any evidence for "Zermatism." I recommend others do not waste their time. It appears to be a completely crackpot theory. I don't believe the parent comment is serious.

There isn't any evidence for Zermatism, and it is a crackpot theory, but as of now there is also the possibility that this 'unknown species' is indeed the Yeti. We shall see!

EDIT: I admire your slack.

Re: Does a real anti-aging pill already exist?

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post #16

What are the webdesigners at Bloomberg smoking? This sticky scroll nonsense works for landing pages, not for articles that people are supposed to read .

Whatever they were smoking, I want some: http://bloomberg.com/404 http://bloomberg.com/500

This is amazing.

Is Bloomberg an actual magazine?

Re: Does a real anti-aging pill already exist?

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Whatever they were smoking, I want some: http://bloomberg.com/404 http://bloomberg.com/500

This is amazing. Is Bloomberg an actual magazine?

And a provider of ultra expensive information terminals to wall street, and a TV channel and much more. And the founder, Michael Bloomberg, is worth over $36 billion.

Re: Does a real anti-aging pill already exist?

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent a few minutes trying to figure out whether there is any evidence for "Zermatism." I recommend others do not waste their time. It appears to be a completely crackpot theory. I don't believe the parent comment is serious.

There isn't any evidence for Zermatism, and it is a crackpot theory, but as of now there is also the possibility that this 'unknown species' is indeed the Yeti. We shall see! EDIT: I admire your slack.

> EDIT: I admire your slack.

What does that mean?

Re: Does a real anti-aging pill already exist?

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It's also a lot better at telling us the downsides. "Patients on immunosuppressive medications have a 10- to 100-fold increased risk of cancer compared to the general population"

There is a school of thought in anti-aging research that some of the mechanisms of aging, such as telomeres, are adaptations to prevent cancer. So evolutionarily there might have been a life span / cancer risk trade-off. This of course would have been optimized to maximize long-term reproductive success, providing a long enough life span to have, raise, nourish, and educate children while minimizing the risk of dying…

"...maximize long-term reproductive success..." - where 'long-term' means 30 years based on observable health decline. We have to switch to metal bodies or something.

Re: Does a real anti-aging pill already exist?

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Whatever they were smoking, I want some: http://bloomberg.com/404 http://bloomberg.com/500

This is amazing. Is Bloomberg an actual magazine?

They are publishing one. Also have a trading terminal monopoly.

Re: Does a real anti-aging pill already exist?

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't any evidence for Zermatism, and it is a crackpot theory, but as of now there is also the possibility that this 'unknown species' is indeed the Yeti. We shall see! EDIT: I admire your slack.

> EDIT: I admire your slack. What does that mean?

It means I like your discordian nature:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius

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