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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 44 minutes ago

All that money, time and effort in order for a 46 year old to look somewhere in his mid 40s.

[–] lipilee@feddit.nl 5 points 2 hours ago

I just hope that he's got nice decent medical advisors working with actual doctors and medical staff, so that all that money he's throwing at this at least trickles down to people that deserve it.

[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 9 points 4 hours ago

No, his body just did that naturally.

[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Here's how you can do what he wants to do:

  1. Eat whatever your body tells you, but keep to not eating 1 hr before bed, and make sure to keep protein, nutrients, and minerals you need thru pills/smoothies.
  2. 5 days a week minimum 1 hr walk.
  3. Poop daily. There's exercises to help, but a 1 hr walk should get you moving.
  4. That's really it, you will reduce your biological age because the weak old cells die during exercise. -get to it chubby.
[–] mcz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

My body tells me to devour six packs of sour gummi bears every afternoon.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago

This just in, drugs have side effects and aging is very complex.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Dude, get a normal fucking hobby.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

If you're immortal, your can play through ALL normal hobbies - twice!

Check mate, mortal!

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

yeah exactly, maybe he'll find something useful along the way. At least the rich have (hopefully) stopped their usual "youth restoring" rituals like bathing in infant blood

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t forget stealing his child’s blood.

[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Hey! They consented! Supposedly.

[–] Norin@lemmy.world 48 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Famko@lemmy.world 32 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Famko@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 18 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Famko@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 hours ago

Therapy is for poor people, inject me with cobra venom

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 points 12 hours ago

Honestly he should just put his soul in a painting

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[–] sepi@piefed.social 9 points 9 hours ago

Bet you anything he has not tried plutonium. He should try plutonium. Harry Daghlian will live forever. In our hearts and textbooks.

[–] bri@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] T156@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Those hormones affect fat distribution, which can make someone appear younger.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 80 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

This will not end well for him. He's doing a bunch of experiments, all at once, with a sample size of one.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 47 points 14 hours ago

Shhhhh, shhhhh, let him cook.....himself.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 39 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

I can't wait to read "Longevity-Obsessed tech millionaire dies of natural causes at 72 years old."

[–] innermeerkat@jlai.lu 26 points 13 hours ago

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

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[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

He could be spending this fortune on real medical research. What an asshole.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

He's "only" a centimillionaire, a single clinical trial can cost >$20m.

[–] oldfart@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

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?

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 23 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 37 minutes ago

Or Paul Rudd, who is nearly 10 years older. Some people just age better than others.

It might be more science-y if he had an identical twin and only one of them was getting the supplements.

He's looking like a Dollar Store Data

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Dude took an immunosuppressant for five years to try and live longer.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I mean... when you say it out loud, sure that does seem misguided...

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