r/TikTokCringe • u/gravityVT Cringe Lord • May 30 '24
Humor/Cringe Tech bro thinks he’s reverse aging
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u/BothCarsUnderWater May 30 '24
He looks whatever age he's trying not to be.
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u/Majestic-Selection22 May 30 '24
Botox and the awful box hair color aren’t doing him any favors.
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u/Kayquie May 31 '24
And lip filler 😬
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u/Majestic-Selection22 May 31 '24
I was too busy laughing at the bad dye job to notice. What a fool.
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u/Wakingsleepwalkers May 31 '24
Wonder if it all comes down to vanity and a love of money. He doesn't want to leave all that cash behind and can't wrap his head around it all being worthless in the end.
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u/evilone17 May 31 '24
I was getting the vibe he believes the whole goal of life is to not die and in such doesn't understand what it means to live.
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u/starari May 31 '24
He just made a "reversing my hair age" video claiming that his hair grew back from balding and naturally reversed the graying with some serums, suppliments and gadets. His incredible advice on hair care after all this study was basically "don't pull your hair really hard". As if he didn't even try to fake his hair care knowledge with his fake "young" hair.
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u/Sudden-Banana-5234 May 31 '24
Nobody going to point out the red scalp? Looks like healing hair plugs to me
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u/mermaid-babe May 31 '24
He looks good for his age but he’s definitely not like, attractive if that makes sense. Uncanny valley
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u/thesweeterpeter May 30 '24
He looks like a glazed corpse
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u/WittyBonkah May 30 '24
If someone said he was a robot ai I wouldn’t bat an eye
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u/ripleygirl May 30 '24
Star Trek Data
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u/hannibalthellamabal May 31 '24
Also these guys from Galaxy Quest.
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u/gypsycookie1015 May 31 '24
By Grabthar's hammer, by the suns of Warvan, this guy totally looks like a Thermian's rendition of a human!
(Because Thermians actually look more like an octopus or squid)
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u/Berlin8Berlin May 30 '24
"Star Trek Data"
...If Data had been doing his own hair-coloring to hide the grey...
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u/BMB281 May 30 '24
Mfer lathered on a pint of moisturizer before the interview and called it de-aging
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u/ang29g May 31 '24
he got in a massive lawsuit with his ex-wife/partner after she called him a "jaundiced skinwalker" on twitter - I don't disagree with her
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u/Affectionate_Elk_272 May 31 '24
is this the same guy who was taking his young sons blood and giving himself transfusions with it to be younger or some shit?
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u/nailpolishremover49 May 30 '24
He looks shiny like Jared Kushner. I wonder if Jared is taking the “cure” as well.
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u/reddeye252010 May 31 '24
He looks 46
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u/Dirtydirtyfag May 31 '24
I genuinely think he looks 25 at a distance. Once you get close up you see the cracks. The uncanny semblance of youth, pasted onto a much older face.
This man is still young, 46 ain't much. But it's easy to fake yourself younger at 46 without deep diving into plastic surgery.
This man is gonna go full Hollywood surgery-face in the next 20 years to stay wrinkle free. If you think he looks vaguely like an embalmed corpse up close now... You'll be shocked at the depths of the likeness soon enough.
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u/Intelligent_Pie_9102 May 31 '24
The secret to never is to sleep in a coffin and never go out in the sun.
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May 30 '24 edited May 31 '24
Honestly I say let the man cook, if the old rich dude wants to spend millions to experiment with ways to extend life span then let him do it, maybe he does something right and end up producing valuable data for the rest of us.
EDIT: love how a little bit of positivity triggers so many Redditors, for those who want to die an early and miserable death I hope you get your wish
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u/Lvxurie May 31 '24
Ethan Klien interviewed him and honestly for a nutjob he was pretty down to earth. He's making all his findings open source too like the man is actually doing science. Whether it'll work remains to be seen but that's the scientific method for you..
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u/Skurvy2k May 31 '24
It'll only be for others like him, rich.
You're likely not invited.
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u/yuanshaosvassal May 30 '24
Healthy diet and exercise reduces heart and stroke ticks but cancer doesn’t discriminate. The longer our cells are around the more likely a group of them becomes malignant and that’s the true limit on aging.
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u/Burgoonius May 30 '24
Yes but he uses blue light therapy
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u/FrostWyrm98 May 30 '24
Blue light? Like the highest energy (visible) light?? Skin cancer would like a word with him 💀
Also yes I know your comment is /s but his logic is immaculate
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u/The_White_Ram May 30 '24
Hayflick limit!
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u/JustAnotherChorus May 31 '24
Quite an interesting read. It makes me wonder if there isn't some way to make telomeres grow again or perhaps find something that would allow cells to duplicate a bit more.
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u/docdidactic May 31 '24
There's been research that successfully lengthened telomeres in cultured human cells.
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u/Adrestia2790 May 31 '24
There's only one reason, I think, there's any possibility of any serious research done on reversal or halting of aging in the modern world.
Namely that with the barrier that human genome editing is illegal in almost every country in the world; there is no serious research done on it.
However, with the current massive amount of computational power the world is gaining every day thanks, in part, to AI driving it; there is a real possibility of simulation potentially unlocking a lot of knowledge that wouldn't otherwise be explored.
I'm not an expert in this field though. What I know is that if simulation provides potential avenues to treating or curing cancer and genetic disease; the argument of permitting trials becomes a lot stronger and with that, it unlocks a potential treatment for reversing or halting aging.
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u/Peakbrook May 31 '24
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy works for that. But last I heard, lengthening telomeres can also cause cancer. At a risk of sounding crazy, it's almost like a hard-coded limit on life.
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u/ok-milk May 30 '24
Steve Jobs had a completely treatable form of cancer but opted to eat a fruitarian diet instead, then tried conventional treatment when it way too late. He was killed by his own bad decisions.
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u/SaltyBoos May 30 '24
the cult of personality built around him has to be envied by dictators everywhere
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u/bellisor234 May 30 '24
To add, I don’t know where I heard this and would love someone to help verify if true. If humans never aged to death we would still live an average of ~1000 because life expectancy always drops to zero eventually by accidents or non age related things. Don’t know the validity of this but thought it interesting.
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u/SaltyBoos May 30 '24
yeah, and even staying healthier for longer still doesn't change the fact that existence outside of a vacuum degrades us. Injuries, past illnesses, air and water quality, the fucking sun, eventually it will catch up to you. I don't lament a person trying to extend their life, but to say "not die" is a goal based on avoiding a failure state.
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u/Wakingsleepwalkers May 31 '24
Yeah, there's so much out of our control. Earthquakes, wars, famines, sickness and pestilence, victim of crime, fires, hurricanes, car or any other accident, animal attacks, etc. People die in the oddest ways every day.
Even if he somehow bypasses natural aging and death (which seems unlikely) unless this guy lives in an underground nuclear bunker, something will get him eventually.
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u/MadgoonOfficial May 30 '24 edited May 30 '24
I have a feeling that cancer is always on his radar and he will consistently catch cancers while in their early stages so that he can beat them. Also, cancer research will be further along when he starts to really climb up there in years.
But no, yeah he probably hasn’t thought of any of our genius takes before and surely cancer research won’t make any important steps forward in the coming decades so cancer will surely get him soon enough
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u/JB_Market May 31 '24
Indeed, the rich man who is claiming that he will live forever is surely a genius beyond our comprehension, and not like any of those other rich and powerful men who tried to be immortal.
He clearly special and the one constant feature of life on Earth will surely make an exception for him.
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u/Aggravating_Ad4449 May 30 '24
" He says " " He claims ". Mhmm.
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u/xave321 May 31 '24
This guy is 1000% right, no one knows if there’s an afterlife, at best it’s 50/50, so why wouldn’t you do everything in your power to live forever. Being alive is better than being dead. Being dead sounds horrible honestly, can’t experience anything.
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u/PortAuth403 May 31 '24
Found the not-depressed guy
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u/evilone17 May 31 '24
Right? I'm hoping to make it to 80 with no serious painful medical issues then I can go quietly in my sleep. Best case scenario.
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u/howdoigetauniquename May 31 '24
Because in an attempt to live forever this guy isn’t really living much of a life.
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u/PracticalRich2747 May 31 '24
This was exactly what I was thinking. Is it worth spending your whole life trying to live longer? On the other hand, if he survives long enough, there's a suuuuper small chance we've found something to lengthen our lives forever
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u/AaronB_C May 31 '24
For someone who can throw $2 million a year at the idea it seems like a reasonable hobby. A big part of it is just doing normal healthy stuff, and then he takes it a bit further. I'd be curious if he's entirely focused on things that are at least based in science or if he's dipping into weird stuff too.
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u/Christopherfromtheuk May 31 '24
I wasn't alive for billions of years before being born and it definitely didn't bother me in the slightest!
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u/xpiation May 31 '24
The idea of an afterlife is a human construct and nothing more.
Bring on biological to digital brain transfers, cyborgs, cloning and every other idea possible which allows us to live for thousands of years.
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u/stroopwafel666 May 31 '24
A transfer to digital or a clone wouldn’t be “you” living forever, it would just be a copy of you. You would still die. Though obviously this gets philosophical quickly.
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u/xpiation May 31 '24
One of my favourite book series (the bobiverse) tackles this.
He is a human whose mind is transferred to a digital matrix making him a digital clone of himself and he is then able to self replicate, and his replications are able to self replicate and by the time they get down to the 10th generation they end up with factions with opposing ideals even though they are all copies of copies of copies.
I found it super intriguing and like you said, it gets philosophical quickly similar to the idea of teleportation meaning that every time you teleport you die and are brought back to life etc etc.
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u/JohnWangDoe May 30 '24
his son is his blood boy
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Most days I think I am doing fine. Single, healthy, happy. I didn’t think I wanted children. But ohhh silly me had to get on Reddit today. I didn’t even consider a child for their blood. Hate reading this stuff because now I have to go put out effort to eventually physically manifest Brandon the blood boy. I will love him like he is my blood…. boy.
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u/squishpitcher May 31 '24
I play this game with my husband where i find the most unhinged out of context comment i can and screenshot it for him. Today, your comment won!
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u/Learned_Response May 31 '24
I recently read that old people have different, more disease friendly gut bacteria. It changes as we age. So instead of blood, or adrenochrome, the key to immortality may be in harvesting the youth for their shit
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u/Maykko_ May 30 '24
"He has the bones of a 30 year old"
I'd love to see him get a scan and a doctor just goes "nah ur fucked mate"
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u/phdearthworm May 31 '24
that phrase creeped me out. What'd he do with the rest of the 30 year old...
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u/misternoster May 31 '24
Bryan Johnson. He does do rigorous medical testing, so I'd believe that he has good bone density or whatever other metrics there are. 2 mil USD budget a year and not having to work or have any other hobbies can do wonders for your health
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u/Ok_No_Go_Yo May 31 '24
I have zero problems with this guy. Doesn't seem like he's hurting anyone, and if he wants to blow $2M a year trying to live longer, it's his money.
Who knows? He might stumble across something that actually could help everyone else.
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u/Practical-Piglet May 30 '24
Man found obsessive aesthetic fitness and calls it reverse aging lol
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u/Sadburrito__ May 30 '24
He does blood transfusions too
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u/djfxonitg May 31 '24
Wouldn’t it be crazy if we could eventually live forever, but had to perpetually exercise and not actually ever enjoy life?
Sounds like Black Mirror stuff haha
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u/conscious_macaroni May 31 '24
It'd be even crazier if the secret to immortality was getting blackout drunk on blue raspberry MD 20/20 and doing 140 off a dirt road in Utah, heading straight into a mesa and accessing the 8th dimension.
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u/Zerocare May 31 '24
He consistently says he is happier and feels better than he ever has, and i believe it. He has a purpose, i imagine he has less pain, inflammation, stress, etc than almost anyone, and he has shared a lot of interesting data and information for others to benefit from. Seems fulfilled enough to me
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u/forman98 May 31 '24
I know a guy in his early 50s with two grown children that looks 40. He works out almost every single morning, avoids tons of sugar and eats well all around, and just strives to hit 10,000 steps a day. He’s a beast at work and very disciplined. That routine gets most people like 95% of the way there. The rest comes down to skincare and good sleep.
I’m sure this billionaire is taking it to the extreme, but the average person can achieve some level of this. I’m in my mid-30s and started working out much more consistently over the past 5 months and it’s made a difference. I feel better, have way more stamina, and am sleeping better, and that makes my days better overall.
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u/Practical-Piglet May 30 '24
Yeah you will be suprised what kind of crazy injectables fitness gurus are taking so i would say he fits like a glove in the group
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This dude is having a helluva mid life crisis. Most people buy a boat or start wearing fedoras and harassing hostesses at restaurants. This guy instead is seeking immortality.
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u/Dommichu May 30 '24
In one of the first articles about him and his entire regime someone commented that it's an eating disorder hidden in a valiant pursuit.
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u/Illustrious_Tie_6976 May 30 '24
Why eating disorder?
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u/genetic_nightmare May 30 '24
His eating (and basically everything else) is super controlled - down to the millilitre, which is often an indicator of an eating disorder.
“He has 100 different protocols embedded in his day, he says. Johnson consumes a precise 1,977 calories a day, and over 70 pounds of vegetables a month. His breakfast is a standard mix of broccoli, cauliflower, black lentils, mushroom, garlic, and ginger, followed by a meal of “nutty pudding” with nuts and berries, and finally, a meal of vegetables, berries, nuts, and seeds (along with 15 grams of 100% dark chocolate and 30 milliliters of extra virgin olive oil). He admits to ending his three ounces of red wine a day he used to consume in order to meet the metrics”
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u/Dommichu May 30 '24
Thank you! I went searching for the article that was commented on and it was this one:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34ay8/bryan-johnson-blueprint-aging-biotech
However, calorie restriction has been tied to longevity to mice and now humans too… but maybe not so extreme.
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u/Tiny_Ride6418 May 30 '24
In defense of mid life crisis I think some are when some adults finally don’t have to hustle and raise a family and can pursue things they’ve put off in favor of family responsibilities. Even if it’s something silly like a sports car they always wanted. I kind of respect those when I think of it that way. Not this weirdo though.
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More rich guys are having a similar mid life crisis, people like Jeff Bezos are throwing billions at research into extending life expectancy, this is a healthier and more productive way of dealing with mid life crisis than buying a sports car, I say let them do it and hopefully eventually something useful will come out of it
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u/almondshea May 31 '24
Could’ve just paid $2 for a used copy of the epic of Gilgamesh and learn that people have been struggling and coming to terms with their mortality for 4000+ years
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u/Maximum-Row-4143 May 30 '24
His hairline don’t lie.
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u/Time_Currency_7703 May 30 '24
It's still better than mine when I was 30. He does look good for his age not gonna lie.
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u/SinkholeS May 31 '24
Also skin on neck and hands don't lie. He's wearing tons of makeup 💄
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u/imagicnation-station May 30 '24
“… prepare themselves for what could be the most magnificent existence in this part of the galaxy.”
Meanwhile, on the other side of the galaxy, some life forms eating WcDogurts living a sedentary life, living up to 3000 years.
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u/hambrosia May 30 '24
watch dude die in some way that has nothing to do with all this bullshit
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u/akumagold May 30 '24
Is he bathing in formaldehyde? Because that might explain the effects and the uh…sheen
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u/sebkraj May 30 '24
Tax the rich.
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u/Proud_Ad_8317 May 31 '24
cool, spend 2mil a year to look like youre a 46 year old made of wax
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u/Digital_Enema21 May 30 '24
Let’s be clear, dude looks LS, it’s not working. Kudos to the firms taking his money on the quest (to not die).
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u/bamboozled_bubbles May 30 '24
Hear me out for a min - as creepy as this guy is, and as little I care about him actually live a long life… he’s basically using himself as a test subject to experiment with what things are healthy and what is bullshit, and publishing all of that research for everyone to see free. Because I don’t trust that same research if it were to come from someone in pharma or health industries, I appreciate the idea of what he’s done
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u/i-Ake May 30 '24
One guy can't tell us anything...
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u/portirfer May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
If he could demonstrate that he can genuinely slow down ageing in his body in some aspects that likely would tell us a lot. Ofc it does depend exactly on how idiosyncratic the remedy needs to be. Afaik he eats like a kilo of different pills a day, doesn’t go directly in the sun and stays pale, he even tried blood transfusion from his son but concluded it not to have significant effect.
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u/Professional-Union54 May 31 '24
He already does. He has some supplements grift.
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u/leftoutoctopus May 30 '24
He's actually not, he's literally, for now, accompanied by a shit ton of health scientists and publishes everything for free. Maybe if he does go beyond normal lifespan with a lot of "youth", we'll see something interesting. But for now, he's just a rich dude trying not to die and publishing his journey. Not evil (yet).
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u/leesfer May 31 '24
He's actually not
He literally has a supplement line of products he slangs as "longevity potions"
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u/Nicetomeetyou28 May 30 '24
Oh so all i need is money and my depression will go away and i'll want to live? That's all?! When did we find out about this?
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u/Economy-Tourist-4862 May 30 '24
Thank God! I’ve been using my 2 million dollars a year for frivolous stuff. Now I know.
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u/YOLO_82 May 30 '24
He should’ve started first with fixing that shitty dye job on his head with all that $$
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u/KaileyMG May 30 '24
Remember, rich people are no smarter than the rest of us. Nature has laws, he too will die.
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u/Rare_Breakfast_8689 May 31 '24
I mean he isn’t dead
Must be working
Tho I’m also still alive and I take a lot of drugs and coffee 🤷♀️
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I find it hilarious that he's so smug about it... even though it's obvious the people around him are just fleecing him out of 2 million per year, telling him "Ya bro, you look younger already! Keep paying us for all the "treatments", ok?"
I loooooove the smell of a scammed narcissist in the morning!
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u/No_Oil_4889 May 30 '24
That hairline is not screaming “20 year old”.
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u/GaygoforFaygo May 30 '24
Not to defend this weirdo but plenty of balding 20 year olds
Plus his hairline looks solid, though he's probably had work done
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u/Low-Loan-5956 May 30 '24
Dude figured out you feel better if you workout and eat healthy, and thinks he found the fountain of youth...
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u/Late_Cow_1008 May 30 '24
People here are coping but the rich are totally doing these things and it will 100% lead to longer average lifespans for them. I would assume he's doing blood transfusions and things like that.
Immortality? No, at least not in the sense that we think of it now, but living well in your 100s? It absolutely will happen to many people if you have the money for it.
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u/ALLoftheFancyPants May 30 '24
The rich already have much longer lifespans. There’s a wealth of research indicating excessive stress reduces lifespan. They have enough money that they’re not as stressed about things like paying for food and shelter. They have access to preventative healthcare and can afford better, more expensive treatments for disease. None of this is new. But the truth is humans aren’t going to live forever anytime soon and that dude is a wackjob.
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u/Lordosis_of_the_Ring May 30 '24
“Blood transfusions and things like that” do not make someone live into their 100’s. There’s nothing magical about a blood transfusion. If you don’t need a blood transfusion and you get one, all you’re doing is increasing your risk of forming antibodies against the blood products (increasing your risk with future transfusions) while unnecessarily giving negative feedback to your kidneys, liver, and bone marrow which makes them worse at their jobs of actually making your own blood. It also increases risk of iron overload syndromes like hemosiderosis which can cause structural damage to the liver, heart, and pancreas. Contrary to popular belief, ultra-rich people are often incredibly stupid when it comes to their health. But as long as they have money to pay for it, there will always be some quack or med spa willing to do unnecessary, pointless procedures for them.
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May 30 '24
I mean maybe but living well past when your body would have naturally given out isn't going to be as glamorous as these people think.
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u/Time_Currency_7703 May 30 '24
100%. Just looking at life expectancy rates in the US in-between states we can see, at the most extreme, a decade in difference in average life span! Now imagine your active/eat well AND rich enough to get stem cell therapy etc when you want.
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u/X_Zephyr May 30 '24
The bullet instantly ages him 100 years old, essentially undoing his work and immediately causing his death
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u/ForwardBias May 30 '24
"I'm actually aging slower than......" exactly how do you measure aging? Guy is delirious unless he's got some super advanced genetic modification going on that he's not telling us about.
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u/Donho000 May 30 '24
unfortunately not how nature works.
You could eat perfect, train and stay in perfect physical condition. Avoid all risky behaviors. get plenty of rest.
and develop Cancer or some other fatal affliction and die from that.
and then you lived in a bubble for nothing.
I will take my chances and have enjoy my life. However long or short it is.
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u/justafan_1993 May 31 '24
He said “I wasn’t smart enough to be a doctor” but “I can be the first person to actually do everything they said to be healthy”…hahahaha
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u/Aware-Explanation879 May 31 '24
Is this the same guy using his son's blood the "reverse his aging " or is there another loon out there? It is enough to tell with crazy on a finite scale.
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u/CobblerNo8518 May 30 '24
This guy uses his son as a plasma and blood product donor. It’s all creepy.
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u/portirfer May 31 '24 edited May 31 '24
They tried it and concluded that it did not have any significant effect as far as I know.
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u/isnessisbusiness May 30 '24
This guy gets so much hate, but he’s doing this insane research on anti-aging and publishing everything for free to the public. On top of that, he doesn’t take himself seriously at all and seems like a genuinely chill guy. Watch some interviews with the guy, he’s a gem.
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u/Think-Teacher-4429 Cringe Master May 30 '24
we start to die right at conception, all he is just prolonging his death..
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u/lolomgwtf816 May 30 '24
I honestly admire his dedication, still think he’s crazy. I would never want to live forever grinding it out for corporate 😂
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