Posted on 11/18/2017 10:07:09 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Where is wisdom?
Such arrogance!
We’re on the verge of a vast change in medicine. It’s centered on the gut biome. Near term we’ll see non-pharmaceutical treatments for autoimmune diseases. Without chronic and debilitating issues. lifespans on average will increase.
Faster, please.
Death is term limits. In their narcissistic pursuit of eternal life they disregard the evil that would ensue if the likes of Stalin, Mao, or Hitler could have lived for hundreds of years. Better that we take our three score and ten and be glad of it.
Good luck with that, morons!
If NASA is involved this could get serious fast. Will be interesting how the medical and pharmaceutical community responds.
https://www.cnet.com/news/dna-repair-harvard-university-new-south-wales-nmn-nda-nasa-mars/
Discovery could reverse aging and help us live on Mars
Islam is the disease, leave us die in peace.
No fountain of youth will be found. These “scientists” are deathly afraid of the afterlife because they ain’t going to a good place and they know it.
That’s why they’ll do anything to try to live forever on earth.
Dan Weber, you are not GOD.
HEBREWS 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.
ECCLESIASTES 3:2
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die;
LOL!! It’s not a disease. It’s a curse.
Wow. Could lead to a Hillary candidacy every four years.
Many who hold a literal interpretation of the Old Testament support the idea that a normal lifespan should be measured in hundreds of years.
Hillary could be the heir apparent to Harold Stassen.
How many are truly happy to have reached that century mark? Most people in their late 80s and 90s that I've known have all said "it's time." My uncle is 97 and almost completely blind and deaf. Up until 95, he was sharp as a tack. He's starting to fall more now and his daily walks became too difficult.
It's frightening to contemplate a world where aging has been conquered. The only births we would need would be to replace people killed in accidents, war, murder, and suicide. A world without children would be awful. Think how new ideas would just end and progress in everything would stop without new people with fresh brains coming into being. Would the fixed supply of people continue to innovate? Would people just tire of living and WANT to die? Would healthy and strong 200 year old people no longer care about anything.
I think that you are absolutely correct on that point. All these antibiotics and fad diets do damage to the essential bacteria in your gut. When you start arbitrarily restricting entire food groups from your balanced common sense diet you are going to alter the makeup of your gut bacteria. You do it long enough and long term problems will result.
We have seen this in vegetarians in the past, now we are seeing problems in people who are restricting "carbs", etc. from their diets. With the vegetarians it was characterized by hair loss, certain types of skin problems and anemia. With some of the more recent fad diets the consequences have been much more serious... cardiac and other internal organ failure. The amazing thing to me is how we humans when faced with better health and increasing life spans always manage to find some way to allow simple stupidity to help reverse the trend.
The other thing that I found interesting in the article was their focus on financial issues related to a longer life span. I have been much busier since I retired than when I was “working”. A good percentage of my efforts have gone towards profitable endeavors. This is not a bad thing... healthy people of any age enjoy engaging in useful and profitable endeavors.
It is when you stop accomplishing useful tasks that you begin to feel worthless and die. The article has a lot of hand wringing over nothing on this topic. I think the article was written by a young person who has little experience with the elderly.
I don’t mind the intent, but I can see lots of us dying from boredom if we live for hundreds of years. The more that things change and all that.
That’s why I ignore advice from some dieticians to stop eating potatoes altogether. Potatoes, according to another FReeper, make your gut bacteria happy, and that’s essential. I’m also a C-Diff carrier, so I especially need to be sure I have happy gut bacteria, so the C-Diff won’t run wild and destroy my large intestine.
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