Posted on 12/18/2019 3:54:45 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Recent research on longevity is making the idea of an elixir of life sound increasingly plausible. But a startup thats started selling a $1 million anti-aging treatment is most likely jumping the gun.
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 peoples telomeres, the caps on the end of our chromosomes that shorten as people get older. Its 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 its yet to be tested in humans.
Libellas therapy will use viruses to deliver a gene called TERT, which codes for an enzyme called telomerase that re-builds teleomeres, to the patients cells.
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By the looks of that last photo of Hillary with the chipmunk cheeks, I’d say she was one of their guinea pigs.
Fred Mustard Stewart wrote a rather chilling novel on this very topic back in 1970, with the title: “The Methuselah Enzyme”.
I actually used it as one of three Sci-Fi/Dystopia novels that I studied and compared for my Grade 13 Advanced Literature class (High Schools still had a Grade 13 at the time).
In case you wondered, the other two novels I chose were Levin’s “The Boys from Brazil”, and Burgess’ “A Clockwork Orange”.
I’ll have to come out of retirement if it works.
Very similar to a book I just read.
Thanks for the post!
I’m curious as to what the real cost is, not in dollars, but what does it actually damage to the body to accomplish this?
People will still kill themselves with booze, tobacky, liberalism, pills, heroin, STDs, fentanyl, and 9,000 calorie per day diets.
What are the unintended negative consequences? There are always those.
Well that’s just great....have everybody live to be 200,then you’ll have to raise the retirement age to 175.
Sounds familiar!
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0734679/
The Trade-Ins (20 Apr. 1962)
TV Episode of The Twilight Zone
The Trade-Ins (1962)
An elderly couple shop for younger replacement bodies, then resort to desperate measures to cover the cost.
My question also.
Just look how advanced technology has become in the past 100 years and it's increasing exponentially.......
With that being said, I suspect that some cataclysmic event will happen within the next 100 years that will reset the human population to whatever nature deems necessary.......
I believe that cataclysmic event you refer to will happen a lot sooner than 100 years from now.
There have been at least two reset events that I know of, and both had to do with major scientific knowledge/technology we’ve had in the past & our propensity to do evil with it.
IMHO, we’re close to achieving that same level of technology that those previous civilizations had.
It has a few side effects.....
You have this sudden urge to hide nuts for the winter.
“But the treatment requires the glands of kidnapped children, who are killed in the process. “
of course ...
“An elderly couple shop for younger replacement bodies, then resort to desperate measures to cover the cost.”
i vaguely remember that this was a ripoff of the basic idea of “Gift of the Magi” ...
Well, as Johnny Carson joked one night, Scientist are saying that soon we will live to be 200. Gee! After 150, theres not much left to do!
I don’t believe those photo’s are Hillary. She has been replaced for whatever reason. And this new Hillary is actually a hundred times more ugly. In fact she looks like a creepy clown. Something from Stephen King.
But if Hillary is ever brought up on charges then the prosecutors better be sure to have her DNA and finger prints checked. Hopefully the records on file have not already been falsified.
And that’s how the zombie apocalypse started...
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