Johnson, 45, is an ultrawealthy software entrepreneur who has more than 30 doctors and health experts monitoring his every bodily function. The team, led by 29-year-old regenerative medicine physician Oliver Zolman, has committed to help reverse the aging process in every one of Johnson’s organs....
This year, he’s on track to spend at least $2 million on his body. He wants to have the brain, heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, tendons, teeth, skin, hair, bladder, penis and rectum of an 18-year-old.
:libertarian-alert:
On the yuck side, I also had to eat a mound of vegetables that had been pureed into a gray-brown goop. Once upon a time, it consisted of black lentils, broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, garlic, ginger root, lime, cumin, apple cider vinegar, hemp seeds and olive oil, all of which sound fine on their own. But when put together and blended, it felt and tasted like dirt paste.
wtf just a eat a salad why blend this
After dinner, father and son watched as I inserted my arm into a cardiac health monitor on Johnson’s kitchen island. The machine buzzed and whirred for a few seconds, then reported back that my ticker—at least by one measure—wasn’t that far off Johnson’s. It felt like a small victory for paunchy 45-year-old Scotch lovers everywhere.
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The more popular this type of lifestyle becomes, the cheaper and more readily available some of the procedures Johnson tries might be. “If you say that you want to live forever or defeat aging, that’s bad—it’s a rich person thing,” Johnson says. “If it’s more akin to a professional sport, it’s entertainment. It has the virtues of establishing standards and protocols. It benefits everyone in a systemic way.”
:doubt:
Bloomberg previously wrote about this guy's brainwave helmet in 2021 https://archive.is/KVccl
I mean in theory I'm not against this. Like it sucks when a 19 year old can bounce back from a sports injury after like 3 months when it would take almost a year (plus many more months of daily physical therapy) for someone a little older. It also sucks that they can eat like shit and drink like all night and then get up the next day with barely any hangover and do shit the next day. Or how young people don't need tons of lotion to keep their skin nice.
I know ppl clown on the idea cuz it's always the rich and powerful silicon valley types that are into it, but sometimes biology just isn't fair. In some ways I consider it a form of discrimination: like why are some ppl tall and others short, why do some keep their hair and why do others lose it, etc. If there was a pill or injection (or series of pills/injections) that essentially "tricked" your genes into thinking they were always 25 (or 22, or whatever age) then it would be kinda nice. Not from a beauty standpoint but looking at overall health, since aging is also linked to things like cancer, heart disease, etc. I know it's cliche that "youth is wasted on the young," but it's kinda true. Like you have a much more sturdy body but not enough experience on how to best enjoy it.
I can't help but think that a lot of leftist pushback on this is simply contrarianism or a (rightful) critique of capitalist inequality in terms of health. But imagine if Cuba or China came up with youth extension and/or age reversal technologies that were simple and safe? What would the opinion be then?
Real age reversal in humans is probably going to show up in our lifetimes. There's experiments being done on mice that reverse DNA damage and restore actual physical youth.
I don't know how a communist world squares the circle of possible immortality but I know in a capitalist one it means the only way billionaires will die is by :gui-better:
The metaphorical blood sucking vampires are going to become actual blood sucking vampires (in that they will be immortal, they've already got blood boys)
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