No, his body just did that naturally.
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Ok, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it was probably just time that aged him.
Drugs aside, that time thing is hard to avoid.
This just in, drugs have side effects and aging is very complex.
Dude, get a normal fucking hobby.
IMMORTALITY!
If you're immortal, your can play through ALL normal hobbies - twice!
Check mate, mortal!
I would have so much more respect for this douche if he was doing all this in a legitimately scientific way with the purpose of benefiting humanity.
But nope, he's just deeply insecure about aging and is fine with burning money and experimenting on himself in order to feel better about it.
What's wrong with that? He's a millionaire who's experimenting on himself and reporting his findings? Definitely extreme but what value is there in hating the guy?
Let him be insecure and cope how he wants, he's small fry compared to the billionaire problem at hand
Don’t forget stealing his child’s blood.
Hey! They consented! Supposedly.
Bet you anything he has not tried plutonium. He should try plutonium. Harry Daghlian will live forever. In our hearts and textbooks.
I’m honestly just deeply interested in this guy every time I hear about him.
Not because I think he’s smart, on to something, or at all worthwhile though.
It’s just…. Kind of morbidly entertaining to watch a man spend so much time and money to deal with an obvious and incredible fear of death.
He’s going to die some day, and probably from one of these things he’s paying for to avoid dying. It’s Qin Shi Huang shit.
And, ya know what? There are some truly wonderful and interesting works of philosophy dealing with his exact problem, but our boy is too much of a tech bro to even consider that someone may have found a way to deal with the fear of death a few thousand years ago.
So, fuck it, burn that cash bud.
At least he's using all of the anti aging treatments on himself like a lab rat. Only he will have to suffer if something goes terribly wrong. And maybe something does work and it'll be actually useful to everyone else.
This is the same guy that's using his teenage son as a blood donor too though right? That's the part I'm not okay with.
Yeah that one was a bit fucked up, but at least he isn't doing it anymore after finding out it does absolutely fuck all for him.
That's where I'm at on this. The dude is a major dork for trying to de-age himself BUT, like you said, he's the test subject! There's a long and storied history of self-experimentation leading to discoveries.
I probably don't support how he made his wealth (haven't looked into it) but I support his freedom to do what he wants with his body.
Wouldn't it be ironic if through his "research" he finds a working anti aging cream but it doesn't work on him because of all the other shit he took, so he becomes the only one who ages.
If only.
I just hope that it wouldn't be a treatment that would be only affordable to billionaires.
We don't need the aristocrats to live forever.
Therapy is for poor people, inject me with cobra venom
Honestly he should just put his soul in a painting
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The funniest thing about this is that if he just transitioned he’d get ALL SORTS of age reduction benefits! I’ve been taking spironolactone and estradiol for about 9 months now, and everyone keeps asking me if I’m getting younger.
What
Those hormones affect fat distribution, which can make someone appear younger.
Oh
He could be spending this fortune on real medical research. What an asshole.
Why? He's publishing his results, it's a good data point. He's a human trial on safety of some of these drugs. And it's his money after all.
Many of the substances these people try end up being valuable for people with chronic fatigue and related autoimmune diseases.
Does it really matter whether he's driven by selfishness or by the desire to help others? Are all researchers purely altruistic?
This will not end well for him. He's doing a bunch of experiments, all at once, with a sample size of one.
Shhhhh, shhhhh, let him cook.....himself.
This is how we get mutated supervillains
Finally!
I can't wait to read "Longevity-Obsessed tech millionaire dies of natural causes at 72 years old."
You mean at 60 from a cancer with all the sketchy garbage his body had to assimilate?
I remember him taking snake venom injections ffs
Something something Steve Jobs.
Still angry about how he basically gave himself pancreatic cancer by following an all fruit diet, then somehow managed to get a transplant before a bunch of way more deserving people. Only to die a few years later anyway.
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he has used his own teenage son’s blood to test whether transfusions from a younger person had any direct health benefit on someone his age (he has since discovered that they do not)
Imagine if it worked, though. This dude would have a basement full of teenagers, their blood being siphoned for his own twisted purpose.
Kinda like the book "the house of the scorpion"
This dude takes a ton of pills a day and uses his son’s blood, but still looks older than some Asians several years older than him.
He's looking like a Dollar Store Data
Dude took an immunosuppressant for five years to try and live longer.
I mean... when you say it out loud, sure that does seem misguided...
He should try just getting a blood boy like Gavin Belson did in Silicon Valley
Oh, his blood boy is his son.
Unfortunately I'm not kidding.
Oh shit... I sometimes forget how little the truth has to bend for satire. I'm glad my dad isn't into that
I’m pretty sure the Silicon Valley joke was based on this guy.
Or Peter Theil
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