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Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

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Re: Biohacker seeking immortality afflicted with incurable 'stomach eating' disease

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Post by Melatonic »

rtkwe wrote: post #71
LoganDark wrote: post #64

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Is the solution really just to give away the PFAS to blood recipients?

I mean as a solution for high PFAS levels simply drawing blood and throwing it away would also work just fine too. Also the levels in the blood the recipient receives would be diluted by their own blood too unless they were getting a lot of PFAS'd blood often.

Exactly. I believe for the firefighters they were not actually donating it.

For the average person (if we're all contaminated with some small level of pfas) I'm not sure there's a better solution to normal and regular (over many years) blood donation.

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Post by stronglikedan »

Hoodedcrow wrote: post #76
culi wrote: post #28

Someone should make a website showing the oldest living biohackers. Presenting it as a sort of leaderboard edit: I don't actually ethically endorse this. I was moreso poking fun at the morbidity of the biohacking influencer space which invites people to obsess over an influencer's health and inevitably turns into something gruesome when said influencer has a tragic health outcome.

The best biohacker is some 100+ year-old Japanese lady who just eats healthy and avoids stress

The vast majority of people gotta get stressed to be able to buy food before retirement age. I wonder how old she was when she started the low-stress lifestyle.

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 »

somenameforme wrote: post #42
Waterluvian wrote: post #20

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Whenever I look up diseases and it reports a statistic such as "3-5%" I often feel like either I must not be interpreting it correctly, or it is so region-biased as to not be useful for how I'm consuming the data. Because it's hard to reconcile that apparently in the ballpark of 1 in 20 people have this?

It seems extremely common as people age. Your body just starts to break down as we get older and this is one, amongst many, ways that this manifests. A quick search suggests it shows up in about 50% of people over 70. [1] [1] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11879357/

Is is a case that 1 in 20 people have this, or more like 1 in 20 will eventually get this?

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Post by Paradigm2020 »

theplumber wrote: post #16
garciasn wrote: post #9

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He’s unfathomably rich and unfathomably stupid; doing insane shit to his body and actively recommending others do the same and that’s why he’s being mocked. “Good guy” or not, he’s paying the price for playing with fire.

At least he walks the walk. I won’t say he is stupid. You see stupid people(a big chunk of the human population) looking for immortality in more stupid things so I would place him way above these folks

Can easily find videos online documenting that he doesn't actually release all data as he claims and that the supplements he sells have serious flaws.

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Post by somenameforme »

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #83
somenameforme wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems extremely common as people age. Your body just starts to break down as we get older and this is one, amongst many, ways that this manifests. A quick search suggests it shows up in about 50% of people over 70. [1] [1] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11879357/

Is is a case that 1 in 20 people have this, or more like 1 in 20 will eventually get this?

It's not going to just affect 70 year olds. It's going to be a gradual descent downward. So just making up some numbers perhaps it's 40% or whatever of 60 year olds, 30% of 50 year olds, and so on. And then aggregated out across the population it's going to be a relatively high number, especially as fertility issues drive the average age ever higher.

Eep, just looked up the exact figure and yeah the median age is now just about 40. So if something affects 10% of people over 40 then it'd affect 5% of all people. So you can bring my made up numbers above way down, and still end up with 5%.

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Post by somenameforme »

copperx wrote: post #66
somenameforme wrote: post #50

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Why would you say that? I'm not a fan of the guy, because I think he's searching for unicorns, but he is 100% engaging in pure science. Hypothesis, experiment, data, falsify, repeat.

> he is 100% engaging in pure science. Hypothesis, experiment, data, falsify, repeat. For starters, you don't conduct two simultaneous experiments on the same subject because of confounding variables, let alone 50.

The ultimate thing he's testing is not whether this drug or that can extend life expectancy by a few percent, but whether a complete lifestyle regime can indefinitely defer aging. The answer to this is almost certainly 'no', but if somehow he did succeed then confounding variables outside of his regime are not going to play a factor, because it's something far away from what anybody has achieved. And so at that point you'd be able to see 'okay, this does work' and then try to minimize it down to isolate the most key causal factors. And the mountain of data he's collecting in the interim would provide a huge head start on that.

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Post by ChiperSoft »

> As well as blood transfusions, Johnson follows a strict daily routine that includes monitoring his body fat, heart rate variability, blood, stool samples, and the number of erections he has per night. Every day he also takes two dozen medicines at 5 a.m

This man is not mentally well...

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Post by Hoodedcrow »

stronglikedan wrote: post #82
Hoodedcrow wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The best biohacker is some 100+ year-old Japanese lady who just eats healthy and avoids stress

The vast majority of people gotta get stressed to be able to buy food before retirement age. I wonder how old she was when she started the low-stress lifestyle.

I didn't mean anything exact, more like a joking suggestion.

But yeah, if we're talking seriously - seems like this boils down to a ton of luck (good genetics and a secure enough employment or opportunity).

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Post by [deleted] »

Melatonic wrote: post #45

These people always crack me up. They don't actually want to follow the science - they just want to take a bunch of pills (easy mode) and look good. If you really wanna live a long time you probably need to be carefully making tons of fermented food the way our grandparents did but with the advances of modern science and monitoring. And of course eat an otherwise healthy diet with moderate and varied amounts of exerc…

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