Who Wants to be 18 Again?

[Mai72]

Who wouldn't want to be 18 again? If that is you, then maybe Bryan Johnson might be someone to follow. He is a 45 year old billionaire. He eats 70 pounds of veggies a month. Takes over 100 supplements a day.

His stool is analyzed every day, and he is pricked, probbed and prodded daily by the best doctors in the world. All to look and feel young. His organs are all functioning at their prime supossedly.

It all seems a bit strange and narcissistic. But, hopefully we can learn something from this personalized experiment that Bryan is conducting on himself.

Dude looks like an Elf from Skyrim.

 

[purbeast0]

That dude definitely does not look like he's 18 years old on the outside.

 

[pcgeek11]

Yes, He looks like an 18 year old robot with a rubber coating instead of skin.

 

[Mai72]

That dude definitely does not look like he's 18 years old on the outside.

Agreed. When Bryan talks about turning back the age of time, he is mostly talking about his internals.

At the later stage of the video they go over what he eats. Its sounds nastly. Pumice with dark chocolate. Stuff like that.

 

[lxskllr]

and he'll still die at 80 like everyone else. Didn't watch the video. I don't have time to watch dumb shit.

 

[brianmanahan]

His stool is analyzed every day, and he is pricked, probbed and prodded daily by the best doctors in the world.

hard pass

 

[Captante]

Depends.

WITH my knowledge and experience intact? Absolutely!

However if I have to start from "scratch"? No, thank you!

 

[Mai72]

and he'll still die at 80 like everyone else. Didn't watch the video. I don't have time to watch dumb shit.

True. But, what if you could live to 120.

Would you take on a few of these positive habits like eating more veggies. Maybe not 70 pounds a month, but 30 pounds? Would you work out more often?

 

[Torn Mind]

Maybe 18 again with the knowledge at 34. I could have told my piano teacher, now deceased about the connection between Mariah Carey and Mozart.

 

[brianmanahan]

True. But, what if you could live to 120.

Would you take on a few of these positive habits like eating more veggies. Maybe not 70 pounds a month, but 30 pounds? Would you work out more often?

in theory, absolutely

in practice... ehhh i'm lazy

 

[Torn Mind]

Yes, He looks like an 18 year old robot with a rubber coating instead of skin.

Vegans look like corpses in the face. That doesn't mean some markers are well internally, such as not having atherosclerosis, but not all is well in most vegans.

Avoiding activation of mTOR does probably work. That means not releasing insulin and other triggers of that pathway. That means bringing digestible carbohydrate consumption way, way down while still eating a comprehensive micronutrient diet.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Nah. Couldn't grow a beard at 18 and was broke as shit. I feel like I have more energy and stamina now in pretty much every aspect of my life.

I'm in my prime.

 

[lxskllr]

True. But, what if you could live to 120.

Would you take on a few of these positive habits like eating more veggies. Maybe not 70 pounds a month, but 30 pounds? Would you work out more often?

Not really. An exceptional individual might get to 90 being fairly active. Most people have a long decay with one problem after another. It's all beside the point though. This shit is like religion. Decode The One True Way™ to live the way god(lulz) intended, and you'll live forever. Modern medicine is the reason people are living as long as they do. Evolution fulfilled it's part by ensuring the majority of people live to reproduce. After the reproductive years, it's all borrowed time.

 

[Torn Mind]

Not really. An exceptional individual might get to 90 being fairly active. Most people have a long decay with one problem after another. It's all beside the point though. This shit is like religion. Decode The One True Way™ to live the way god(lulz) intended, and you'll live forever. Modern medicine is the reason people are living as long as they do. Evolution fulfilled it's part by ensuring the majority of people live to reproduce. After the reproductive years, it's all borrowed time.

Most people eat in a manner where 65-70 is their expiration date or due date for major medical event to extend lifespan a few more years before repeating the medical event because they still eat shit. It's a result that the "masters above" are more than happy to live with, because of profit(numerous industries, and like food, medical, dentistry, even shoes) or savings costs(government likes this), or the belief more people old dead is saving the environment.

My mother's bloodline is good for 90-100 years even eating a grain heavy, veggie oil heavy, not particularly healthy "traditional Chinese" with SAD elements. But she got whacked with colon cancer treatment last year, with the chemo being more crippling than the cancer, rendering her into a "brick" for many hours. Only recently(just last week for iron and yesterday for the lactose-free greek yogurt) did finding out that iron supplementation and something in the food complex of Fage Greek Yogurt has a substantial recovery of energy.

Modern medcine does extend life, but also gets people on meds and is the root cause of many manifestations of morbidity(i.e cancer, periodontitis, heart attacks).

 

[Pohemi]

18 years old? No thanks.
21-25 years old, and I'd play along.

Side-topic commentary: humans are living too long already due to medical science. Our expected and average lifespans have lengthened, but for the most part, people aren't staying active/productive any later into their longer-lasting lives.

There are exceptions of course, but there have always been exceptions to the rules of aging and longevity.

 

[Mai72]

Not really. An exceptional individual might get to 90 being fairly active. Most people have a long decay with one problem after another. It's all beside the point though. This shit is like religion. Decode The One True Way™ to live the way god(lulz) intended, and you'll live forever. Modern medicine is the reason people are living as long as they do. Evolution fulfilled it's part by ensuring the majority of people live to reproduce. After the reproductive years, it's all borrowed time.

True. We are on earth to do one thing: Reproduce. Its why young people are attractive (good skin, long hair, pleasing figures) but after 40 it tends to be a downhill process ( sagging skin, hair in unwanted places, balding) and that has everythig to do with evolution and genetics. Some people are able to delay aging beccause of good genes, but in the end we all succumb to aging and death. Just look at Madonna and Schwarzenegger. Both are now old, and look old. Madonna especially looks very bad. If these people, who are worth hundreds of millions, are unable to turn back the hands of time, what chance do we have?

 

[Torn Mind]

Blueprint

On the surface, Blueprint may seem something about health, wellness and aging. It's really a system to make tomorrow better for you, me, the planet and our shared future with AI.

blueprint.bryanjohnson.co

Upon perusal, I see some of his food choices are good foods. But plant proteins are not exactly equivalent to the effect and feeling of real meat cells. The presence of meat itself increases uptake of non-heme iron.

He does supplement testosterone and a whole host of others, which shows just how deficient going all-in on whole food vegan can be.

He also takes metformin, which gives a hmm.

He IS in a better state of health than most Americans, that much I will grant.

But his solution would be death to me or my mother. Iron supplements worked on her, but calcium supplements did not substitute for the effect of the entire complex of the Fage Bestself yogurt.

Some good ideas and things, but some things are not worth following. My schedule would start the month with bison and yogurt, for one. In fairness, he is in a healthier state than "most" and will likely avoid landing in the hospital for "common issues" like I overheared during my stay(low bp, arrhythmias, etc). A mediocrity of sorts. Being in catabolic state is useful and modern diets are a never ending stream of anabolic ingredients triggering anabolic pathways and processes.

 

[shortylickens]

only if I can fuck a 36 year old mom again.

 

[WelshBloke]

Ah to be young and immune to hang overs and come downs!

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Who wouldn't want to be 18 again? If that is you, then maybe Bryan Johnson might be someone to follow. He is a 45 year old billionaire. He eats 70 pounds of veggies a month. Takes over 100 supplements a day.

His stool is analyzed every day, and he is pricked, probbed and prodded daily by the best doctors in the world. All to look and feel young. His organs are all functioning at their prime supossedly.

It all seems a bit strange and narcissistic. But, hopefully we can learn something from this personalized experiment that Bryan is conducting on himself.

Dude looks like an Elf from Skyrim.

Ehhh.... Closer to Morrowind.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Also, no. I'll stick to my bacon and eggs breakfast, with tons of veg and meat for lunch/dinner, thanks. Odds are a bullet from an extremist or climate apocalypse will take me out, but if not probably just good 'ol cancer (colon, skin, bone, spin the wheel!).

 

[MtnMan]

Can I just have an 18-year-old's prostate gland?

 

[Mai72]

Ehhh.... Closer to Morrowind.
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[shortylickens]

Can I just have an 18-year-old's prostate gland?

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[Red Squirrel]

Sounds like a lot of work, and he looks so unnatural. What's the point of trying to live longer if your entire life revolves around trying to live longer. Rather just enjoy life.