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Age Reduction Breakthrough?

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Post by spacephysics »

fredley wrote: post #7

Do we really want to live in a world where the billionaires live forever?

Economically, and historically, the more wealthy tend to try out the expensive, new technologies, then as market forces play out, such technologies become cheaper, to where most average workers can afford them (see genome sequencing costs decline over the past 15 years.)

We need wealthy people to try out the expensive new advances. Just because someone is wealthy doesn’t necessarily mean they’re apart of the “evil billionaire” archetype, which it seems to be what you’re alluding to. Obviously cases exist where this is true, but let’s not paint with such a wide brush.

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Post by fredley »

tootie wrote: post #27
fredley wrote: post #7

Do we really want to live in a world where the billionaires live forever?

The implication of the article is that the treatment may not be extremely costly. Idk why you immediately start talking about billionaires. The divide would likely be between the poor and the middle class.

The World is seemingly already approaching the upper limit on the number of humans it can support.

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Post by throwaway_pdp09 »

lnanek2 wrote: post #17
peter_l_downs wrote: post #4

As someone entirely outside this field, can someone with more inside knowledge give any insight into where this lies on the crank/hoax spectrum? A biorxv paper and a well-written blogpost don't really point either way.

There's been a lot of nasty news articles about rich white people getting pumped with young people's blood. It's something easy to manufacture outrage against. There are callouts in the article that try to calm down that viewpoint at least like: " Katcher thinks that the molecules involved will not be difficult to manufacture, so that when a product is eventually commercialized, it will not require extraction from th…

> It's something easy to manufacture outrage against

Perhaps for a good reason

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Post by zarkov99 »

fredley wrote: post #7

Do we really want to live in a world where the billionaires live forever?

WTF? That is really your takeaway from an article that suggests the fountain of youth is in reach? "Vaccines! Do you really want a world where billionaires do not get small pox???"

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Post by chemeng »

peter_l_downs wrote: post #4

As someone entirely outside this field, can someone with more inside knowledge give any insight into where this lies on the crank/hoax spectrum? A biorxv paper and a well-written blogpost don't really point either way.

It's within the realm of possibility. Parabiosis as a rejuvenation method has been slowly gaining attention since the 1970s and increasing credibility in the last two decades. Research seems to indicate that the introduction of blood parts from the young->old reduces markers of aging in the old. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662775/ for a reasonable quick overview.

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Post by ryanmarsh »

Crucially, plasma treatment of the old rats [109 weeks] reduced the epigenetic ages of blood, liver and heart by a very large and significant margin, to levels that are comparable with the young rats

Since I spend a lot of money on this kind of stuff I figured I'd share. The use of platelet rich plasma (PRP) is rapidly growing in the beauty industry. My wife has had PRP used in various procedures that have indeed created a more youthful appearance (by like 10 years). Basically they can inject it anywhere through hundreds of tiny needles. Most often this is done to the face but you can even do this to the vagina (you'd be surprised how many women over 40 do this). That is, if you want hundreds of needles entering the labia and (horror of horrors) the clitorous too.

There's even a process for men where you can have PRP injected in your shaft and the results (I'm to terrified of needles in my dick to try it) are quite good (firmness, sensation, youthfullness) from what I hear.

The PRP procedures my wife has had, although expensive, have had impressive results.

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