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Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, MD, are advocates of the “bootstrap” method of life extension. Basically, it says that you do everything you can now to prolong your life and health so that, as science continues to advance and generate new methods of life extension, you are able to take advantage of them. Thus, you try to remain healthy for another ten years, expecting the therapies and drugs of 2020 to give you another 10-15 years, and the treatments of 2035 to give you 30 more, and so on.
They publish a new book every few years which includes many of the things you can do now to help insure you’re around down the road to take advantage of what they publish a decade or more in the future.
I haven’t read Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
However, even if you haven’t read the latest book, their website for Transcend is offering to all comers a free evaluation and personalized recommendations based on the info in their new book.
I took the evaluation and was pleased to find that I was doing almost everything they recommend today, with the exception of adding Grape Seed Oil and Conjugated Linoleic Acid to my supplementation regimen.
Well worth a visit.
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Would you mind putting up the link for the Transcend website? I have not been able to find it yet.
Thanks.
Evaluation found here, in case anyone is interested.
Here you go.
Too bad that under Obamacare the new therapies won’t be available because the gummint won’t pay for them or let you go outside the system to get them.
Oh, they’ll be available, just not to you and me. I just hope Byrd and Teddy K are too far gone to take advantage of them.
Lorenzo is right.
Once genuine life extension procedures/treatments are available, the government will control these more tightly than nuke warheads. It will be the ultimate reward, and withholding of same, the ultimate punishment. I’m sure some portions will be doled out to everyone, but the full treatment will be reserved for the Elite.
If the government controls all medical treatment and research, the above is guaranteed. So we either somehow prevent Single Payer, or end up with back alley treatments along the lines of “Minority Report”.
Sigh. I feel like some conspiracy nut, but can you think of a bigger, more effective tool for behavior modification? Can you imagine ANY government or bureaucrat giving up that kind of power?
That sounded goog untill we started our move to communism. Now the incentive for research will grind to a halt due to government interference. Name one government run project that has ever worked other than our millitary.
It’ll be done, just not in this country. Look to places like Singapore, Hong Kong, and maybe even Panama, Costa Rica, and Brazil.
Exactly. While we ration medical care, Singapore will be selling life extension treatments to the highest bidder. These treatments will, of course, not be covered by the US socialized medicare system.
By about 80 you will be frail and your mind will be feeble and muscle-skel pain will be constant, and sex will be a memory, and you will leak and need sponge baths. Sixty-five may have gotten a lot better than before but every 80 to 90 year old I know seems to have multiple failures. In a mature technology, like the internal combustion engine or personal firearms, large earlier advances become harder and harder to reproduce, tiny advances become the norm - there is no reason to believe a future one hundred year old will ever be similar to a 65 year old today. Progress exists, but the best man powered slingshot today is not light warping into superperfection, on the contrary the major improvments possible have already been made. I expect little better man powered slingshots in the future.
Oh, and as far as genes and evolutionary biology are concerned, death and decline are a feature, not a bug. If you could end those, you might end life as we know it.
My dad is 88 and most people think he’s around 65. No leaks and no pains. And at 87 got his first cellphone and learned how to use it and Bluetooth. I’m afraid that there are many people that will contradict you.
Doug is just ignorant. Ignore him.