The tech centimillionaire, who is known for taking droves of wellness supplements, has backtracked on one of his special pills.
  • sumguyonline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    21 days ago

    Here’s how you can do what he wants to do:

    1. Eat whatever your body tells you, but keep to not eating 1 hr before bed, and make sure to keep protein, nutrients, and minerals you need thru pills/smoothies.
    2. 5 days a week minimum 1 hr walk.
    3. Poop daily. There’s exercises to help, but a 1 hr walk should get you moving.
    4. That’s really it, you will reduce your biological age because the weak old cells die during exercise. -get to it chubby.
    • mcz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      21 days ago

      My body tells me to devour six packs of sour gummi bears every afternoon.

      • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        Most of the things you read about on this topic are verging on pseudoscience (because nearly everything diet based is) and you’re going to have to feel out how it works for you if you want to look into it, but we think the cravings you have are more about what your brain thinks are the best ways to get specific things.

        So, while you’re craving ‘sour gummi bears’, what your brain actually wants might be a specific vitamin or mineral that your brain thinks it can get from that and it’s likely to have an alternate healthy source. Real hard to put into practice and change how you approach that though.

  • MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    22 days ago

    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.

    • makyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      22 days ago

      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.

    • vulture_god@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      21 days ago

      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.

  • RattlerSix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    22 days ago

    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”

  • sepi@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    21 days ago

    Bet you anything he has not tried plutonium. He should try plutonium. Harry Daghlian will live forever. In our hearts and textbooks.

  • bri@lemmy.mlEnglish
    117·
    21 days ago

    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.

  • lipilee@feddit.nlEnglish
    8·
    21 days ago

    I just hope that he’s got nice decent medical advisors working with actual doctors and medical staff, so that all that money he’s throwing at this at least trickles down to people that deserve it.

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      21 days ago

      He’s constantly checked with doctors and publishes the results.

      Dude is another tech millionaire weirdo but may accidentally stumble upon some good data, maybe. Ordinary Things did a very interesting interview with him. Dude lives purely to hopefully extend his life, it’s weird.

  • Norin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    811·
    22 days ago

    I’m honestly just deeply interested in this guy every time I hear about him.

    Not because I think he’s smart, on to something, or at all worthwhile though.

    It’s just…. Kind of morbidly entertaining to watch a man spend so much time and money to deal with an obvious and incredible fear of death.

    He’s going to die some day, and probably from one of these things he’s paying for to avoid dying. It’s Qin Shi Huang shit.

    And, ya know what? There are some truly wonderful and interesting works of philosophy dealing with his exact problem, but our boy is too much of a tech bro to even consider that someone may have found a way to deal with the fear of death a few thousand years ago.

    So, fuck it, burn that cash bud.

    • Famko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      47·
      22 days ago

      At least he’s using all of the anti aging treatments on himself like a lab rat. Only he will have to suffer if something goes terribly wrong. And maybe something does work and it’ll be actually useful to everyone else.

      • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
        11·
        22 days ago

        Wouldn’t it be ironic if through his “research” he finds a working anti aging cream but it doesn’t work on him because of all the other shit he took, so he becomes the only one who ages.

        • Famko@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          21 days ago

          If only.

          I just hope that it wouldn’t be a treatment that would be only affordable to billionaires.

          We don’t need the aristocrats to live forever.

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        261·
        22 days ago

        That’s where I’m at on this. The dude is a major dork for trying to de-age himself BUT, like you said, he’s the test subject! There’s a long and storied history of self-experimentation leading to discoveries.

        I probably don’t support how he made his wealth (haven’t looked into it) but I support his freedom to do what he wants with his body.

      • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        22 days ago

        This is the same guy that’s using his teenage son as a blood donor too though right? That’s the part I’m not okay with.

        • Famko@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          21 days ago

          Yeah that one was a bit fucked up, but at least he isn’t doing it anymore after finding out it does absolutely fuck all for him.

  • hOrni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    22 days ago

    I love how millionaires think they can cheat death, just because they have money.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    21 days ago

    Ok, I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it was probably just time that aged him.

    Drugs aside, that time thing is hard to avoid.