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Have scientists discovered the elixir of youth? Hormone extends lifespan by 40%
Daily Mail ^
| 1/14/16
| Lizzie Parry
Posted on 01/16/2016 10:05:02 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant
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If the therapeutic effect comes from defatting the thymus, there might be other ways to do it, such as taking betaine.
To: UnwashedPeasant
Do you know how to make a hormone ?
Refuse to pay her.
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:06:36 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
There is no limit to the money that will be spent, and the aborted babies to be dissected and used in experiments that will stop the ruling elite from trying to obtain immortality.
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:09:22 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: UCANSEE2
If not as many people die, where do you put them all.
Possibly this could spur planetary immigration.
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:13:06 AM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
"And so, you see, I will never die."
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:13:44 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking but I know what I am thinking.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
I think that the effect is not from defatting the thymus, but from either preventing thymic cells from dying with age or by inducing cells in the thymus to become a certain cell type. The full article said that the mechanism of protection by the hormone FGF21 remains to be elucidated. But that would be my working hypothesis.
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:15:17 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: UnwashedPeasant
To: UCANSEE2
Lol from hubby and myself.
To: tet68
If not as many people die, where do you put them all. The reason there are 7 billion (or whatever) people on earth now is that better medicine extends the lifespan, and the fertility rate has not dropped accordingly. Most especially, the effect occurs because children who, in previous eras, would have died before the age of 5 now survive into adulthood and then have children.
I do not think that preventing immune system aging would have that much of an effect, because the people whose lifespans would be increased are already beyond reproductive age, since the immune system starts its major decline after age 65.
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:20:36 AM PST
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: UnwashedPeasant
Is betaine what they’re talking about?
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:25:09 AM PST
by
STJPII
To: exDemMom
God has numbered man’s years to 120. It won’t matter what anyone does.
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:26:06 AM PST
by
Bulwyf
To: UnwashedPeasant
If we keep electing people like Obama and Hillary, who would want to use this hormone?
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:27:00 AM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(That was the gift the president gave us, the gift of happiness, of being together,' Cindy Sheehan")
To: UnwashedPeasant
100+ is when you can really start enjoying life.
To: UCANSEE2
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:35:34 AM PST
by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: STJPII
"Is betaine what they're talking about?" No, I threw that it. But I think it was a bum steer.
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:36:29 AM PST
by
UnwashedPeasant
(A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
No, thanks. I couldn’t bear 40% extra time on this miserable planet.
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:37:34 AM PST
by
Politicalkiddo
("If this poor life of mine could save you, [my country] how willingly would I make the sacrifice!")
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
01/16/2016 10:49:08 AM PST
by
Noumenon
(Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
To: tet68
If not as many people die, where do you put them all.There is enough food to feed everyone on the planet, and there is enough room for everyone to live comfortably.
The problem is that we don't distribute the food or living space properly.
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posted on
01/16/2016 11:05:59 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: UCANSEE2
And, if you extend life at the far end of the span another 40%, most can’t work so where does the $$$ to live on come from?
I’ll pass and just leave it up to a power greater than I to decide.....
To: UnwashedPeasant
Now Social Security is really screwed.
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posted on
01/16/2016 11:26:53 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Hey Pope Francis- The Gospels are not Matthew, Marx, Luke and John.)
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