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Why vampires live forever

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Re: Why vampires live forever

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Post by munk-a »

fyrabanks wrote: post #30
OutOfHere wrote: post #12

The article misses the simplest technique: Just donate blood as often as possible. This results in a loss of cholesterol, other bad lipoproteins, excess iron in those who have it, and PFAS toxins. It is frequency-dependently associated with longevity. Whole blood donation avoids the plastic lining of plasma donations, with the latter undesirably transferring unwanted microplastics into the body. For those with suffic…

does this imply that you're just giving shitty blood to people that need life saving procedures?

Bad blood is better than no blood!

Also, I'm not certain how much they treat blood, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being a purification system sort of similar to Dialysis where you rely on an external machine for removing impurities.

Re: Why vampires live forever

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Post by koakuma-chan »

> The Suspects Peter Thiel

Has anyone tried garlic on him?

> Vampires don’t drink blood because young blood contains an elixir. They drink blood because their own blood accumulates factors that accelerate aging, and they need to periodically dilute it.

I don't think this makes sense. Our bodies do not use the same blood forever.

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Post by ceejayoz »

dfxm12 wrote: post #32
jagged-chisel wrote: post #16

Completely OT: In the link “what the longevity experts don’t tell you”[1] I found this: “As a devout Baptist, he couldn’t use playing cards…” And I’m wondering if I missed something in my Baptist upbringing. I have long since removed myself from any semblance of the Church and manage my own relationship with faith and any related higher beings, so it’s more a curiosity than pertinent. 1 - https://machielreyneke.com/b…

Consider some writing contemporary to Rockefeller (there is a section on cards): https://baptisthistoryhomepage.com/social.amusements.willis.... Consider that Titan was written maybe 100 years removed from the events and you're reading a secondhand telling of it from a blog. Maybe there is more context in the book if you're really curious, or maybe the context was lost from Rockefeller's time to the book, or from the…

> Did he really think his square counters would fool said omniscient God?

My favorite example of this is the string of fishing line around Manhattan.

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...

Re: Why vampires live forever

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Post by firefoxd »

I was hoping he would provide some insight about why they avoid the sun. From observation, thiel looks like he is getting too much sun, or at least his skin has been reengineered like Alucard. While Johnson is just cake [0].

Side note: for once, I'm enjoying a heavily AI assisted article.

[0]: you'll have to find that reference on your own.

Re: Why vampires live forever

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Post by koakuma-chan »

OutOfHere wrote: post #12

The article misses the simplest technique: Just donate blood as often as possible. This results in a loss of cholesterol, other bad lipoproteins, excess iron in those who have it, and PFAS toxins. It is frequency-dependently associated with longevity. Whole blood donation avoids the plastic lining of plasma donations, with the latter undesirably transferring unwanted microplastics into the body. For those with suffic…

Every time I do blood work I almost faint.

Re: Why vampires live forever

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Post by 1970-01-01 »

OutOfHere wrote: post #12

The article misses the simplest technique: Just donate blood as often as possible. This results in a loss of cholesterol, other bad lipoproteins, excess iron in those who have it, and PFAS toxins. It is frequency-dependently associated with longevity. Whole blood donation avoids the plastic lining of plasma donations, with the latter undesirably transferring unwanted microplastics into the body. For those with suffic…

>It is frequency-dependently associated with longevity.

Paper where more frequent cycles in women correlate to longer lifetimes? That would have to be true if this were true.

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