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Anti-Aging Hopes Rise as Organ Rejection Drug Rapamycin Gains Attention (www.sciencetimes.com)
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The immune-suppressing drug rapamycin, originally used for kidney transplants, is gaining attention for its potential to slow aging.

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[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why do people want to live longer? The world’s not getting better…

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Objectively, it is. Billions of people have been lifted out of poverty during my lifetime

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Good for those people... Western societies are seeing increase in poverty especially since covid but really since at least 2008

But strong corporate propaganda tho

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The United States data:

Which countries are you talking about?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Nobody's stopping you from living shorter if you think that the world is going down the drain anyway.