The funniest thing about this is that if he just transitioned he’d get ALL SORTS of age reduction benefits! I’ve been taking spironolactone and estradiol for about 9 months now, and everyone keeps asking me if I’m getting younger.
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He should try just getting a blood boy like Gavin Belson did in Silicon Valley
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It was kind of funny until he used his son's blood and "more recently, used “shock treatments” on his genitals in an apparent effort to reverse age his penis"
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I love how millionaires think they can cheat death, just because they have money.
Let them try. Maybe some of that money will go to researching something useful like cancer treatments.
I hope that guy comes to terms with his mortality. I struggle with aging with every creature around me and myself.
I don't struggle with it at all, it happens all by itself without need of intervention
It's very practical in that way.
I look forward to it (my own mortality) being a nice surprise.
Hopefully a very long time from now.
I'm the meantime, anyone want to buy my book on immortality? It has worked perfectly... So far.
I do think that aging is something we can overcome. It'll take some exponential jumps in research/technology for it to happen in our lifetime though. What worries me is the ultra wealthy hoarding that discovery for themselves.
The wealthy don't stay that way by keeping tech secret, they stay that way by selling it to everybody else.
This is actually the main plot in Orson Scott Card's "Worthing Saga", although I've seen the concept explored in Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth series and Richard Morgan's Takashi Kovacs novels.
It's a fascinating concept to think about, and frankly depressing because it feels uncomfortably close to the reality we're headed towards.
This is my concern too. Sure, I'm not a huge fan of the idea of myself dying someday, old and decrepit. But there are a ton of people out there about whom it gives me some relief to remember that they too will die. And most of them are the kind of people who whold have first access to anti-aging treatments.
He looks ~400 years old.
Oops! It wasn’t “de-aging drug” it was “de (of) aging drug”
It's like headache pills.
or lobster sauce
That's a shame, rapamycin had a lot of promising studies.