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Re: Blueprint health protocol

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Post by Shekelphile » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:18 AM UTC

thatguysaguy wrote: post #4

I have no idea whether his stuff will work but I'm glad people are trying wacky stuff to find out.

There is a very weird lack of interest in slowing down or reversing aging in the scientific/medical community in general. To me it seems like it should be a top priority. Life is extremely short and extending our lives shouldn't be a terribly hard feat given there are plenty of biologically immortal and long lived organisms all over our planet.

Re: Blueprint health protocol

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Post by sureglymop » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:20 AM UTC

Honestly it sounds like he is putting a lot of stress on himself and I'm not sure that helps to stay young at all. He doesn't look young but at least he dresses younger which I guess is something.

Re: Blueprint health protocol

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Post by zubairq » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:21 AM UTC

I've seen some of Bryan Johnson's work... will keep an eye on it as he seems a lot like Tim Ferris where he experiments on his own health and shares the results!

Re: Blueprint health protocol

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Post by kkoncevicius » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:21 AM UTC

I love what the guy is doing. It is a one-man experiment that would be very very hard to reproduce, or even get ethics approval and funding for, by a research lab.

But on the other hand, I get a sense that the public side of his results are overblown. For example, my field is epigenetics, so I had a look at his "epigenetic clock" results. He uses "DunedinPACE" to track the rate of aging and his result is supposedly 0.72 (which very roughly estimates that he ages 0.72 years per a single astronomical year).

However, what is not mentioned, is that this result, while impressive, is not so extraordinary. He is number 6 in his own online leaderboard [1]. And the people who beat him at this metric don't do anything fancy to get better numbers than him [2]. Why not mention things like that along with all the optimism?

[1]: https://rejuvenationolympics.com/leaderboard/#absolute

[2]: https://fortune.com/well/2023/11/04/longevity-women-biohacke...

Re: Blueprint health protocol

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Post by CBarkleyU » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:21 AM UTC

3m wrote: post #10

paul7986 wrote: post #5

In this Abc News interview he doesn't look healthy to me ..his skin looks weird even with tons of lighting their using. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw2H_j81_50&t=75s

I’m sure your visual analysis performed via a screen is more accurate than the dozens of tests he constantly has carried out by specialists in a lab.

Just to keep the sarcasm going: Is there a scientific test that checks for "looking like a vampire"?. Cause he sure does to me, but I'm not a vampire-specialist, so what do I know...

Re: Blueprint health protocol

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Post by gotbeans » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:22 AM UTC

The first thing that comes to my mind upon seeing something like this is how well will he handle aging and deterioration.

My extreme prejucide is he is indeed obsessed with his health. Human health sometimes is not about the bad things we get? but how well do we handle those curve balls.

Re: Blueprint health protocol

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Post by Kiro » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:28 AM UTC

yodsanklai wrote: post #29

He just looks like a 50-years old guy who spends a lot of time in the gym/kitchen. His face and skin texture give away its age. I have no idea about his health protocol, but I'm pretty sure a regular healthy life style (avoiding junk food + recommended dose of exercising) would give you the same results in term of longevity.

> I have no idea [...] but I'm pressy sure

Re: Blueprint health protocol

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Post by anon23432343 » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:29 AM UTC

Why is this on top of HN?

Shameful self promotion into a cult?

Re: Blueprint health protocol

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Post by maeln » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:29 AM UTC

I kind of fail to see how would this be useful for anyone but him. The fact that he has a team working with him to make him the most healthy human possible is cool and all, but there is absolutely 0 guarantee that what works for him would work for any one else. Our bodies can be surprisingly different, this is why it can be surprisingly hard to draw any conclusion from research involving a few hundreds tests subject. As an example, a lot of diets are still contentious and the subject of many debate.

So with one data point ... For all we know, his Blueprint might be over-optimize for his own body and might be extremely detrimental to most people.

Although, on a side note, seeing how my grand parent fared towards the end of their life, I did realize that I do not fear death or aging, I fear the slow withering where you get more and more diminished. So I get where this idea is coming from

Re: Blueprint health protocol

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Post by RanTig » Tue, Jan 02, 2024, 9:32 AM UTC

I really wish he did his research without being restricted to a vegan diet. He mentioned in one of his videos that his choice for a vegan diet isn't motivated by health, so I can't help but think that part of these recommendations are just there to mitigate the effects of that specific diet. For example, an omnivorous diet might not need certain supplements.