CarlosTheDJ
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Yet pubes are oddly ageless....
Brain in a jar in a cave looking at the projections on the wall.But what would you look like? A brain in a jar? Life spans may be extended, but will your overall health and vigour? Even active centenarians don't look like they did in their forties, never mind their twenties.
Libella Gene Therapeutics says it will administer volunteers with a gene therapy that it claims can reverse aging by up to 20 years, according to OneZero. Despite the fact that this is the first human trial of the treatment, the company is charging volunteers $1m to take part. In an effort to side-step the FDA, the trial will take place in Colombia.
The therapy will attempt to repair people’s telomeres, the caps on the end of our chromosomes that shorten as people get older. It’s long been thought that they play a role in aging, and efforts to extend telomeres in mice have shown that it can delay the signs of getting older and increase healthy lifespan, though it’s yet to be tested in humans.
https://singularityhub.com/2019/12/...its-first-human-trial-and-it-costs-1-million/
Yeah, I can smell a con a mile away... that is a con.
There's really no end to rich people's stupidity and entitlement, is there?
This has the capacity to go very, very wrong. One working definition of cancer (in an oncological research sense) is the absence of death at a cellular level. Great care & foresight will be needed here....The therapy will attempt to repair people’s telomeres
Looks like a shot from a horror thiller.
FULL STORY:Amazon Indigenous People May Hold a Key to Slowing Down Aging
Tsimane people are unique for their healthy brains that age more slowly.
A team of international researchers has found that the Tsimane indigenous people of the Bolivian Amazon experience less brain atrophy than their American and European peers. The decrease in their brain volumes with age is 70% slower than in Western populations. Accelerated brain volume loss can be a sign of dementia.
The study was published today (May 26, 2021) in the Journal of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences.
Although people in industrialized nations have access to modern medical care, they are more sedentary and eat a diet high in saturated fats. In contrast, the Tsimane have little or no access to health care but are extremely physically active and consume a high-fiber diet that includes vegetables, fish, and lean meat. ...
The researchers note that the Tsimane have high levels of inflammation, which is typically associated with brain atrophy in Westerners. But their study suggests that high inflammation does not have a pronounced effect upon Tsimane brains.
According to the study authors, the Tsimane’s low cardiovascular risks may outweigh their infection-driven inflammatory risk, raising new questions about the causes of dementia. One possible reason is that, in Westerners, inflammation is associated with obesity and metabolic causes whereas, in the Tsimane, it is driven by respiratory, gastrointestinal, and parasitic infections. ...
The indigenous Tsimane people captured scientists’ — and the world’s — attention when an earlier study found them to have extraordinarily healthy hearts in older age. That prior study, published by the Lancet in 2017, showed that Tsimane have the lowest prevalence of coronary atherosclerosis of any population known to science and that they have few cardiovascular disease risk factors. The very low rate of heart disease among the roughly 16,000 Tsimane is very likely related to their pre-industrial subsistence lifestyle of hunting, gathering, fishing, and farming.
There's definitely something in that idea. I remember hearing that an old person, receiving a transfusion from a young person, may heal a bit quicker. It's largely due to young blood retaining its properties - better platelet formation, better oxygen-transferring abilities, etc.Rich guy Bryan Johnson tries to stay young by swapping blood with his son. Also with his father for some reason. It costs 2 million dollars per go, so not for everybody.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-aging-blood-transfusion-involves-dad-and-son