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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 9 months ago
    I think the link provided is an advertisement for a product that does not exist. IMO, Its a con, offerring a tiny bit of truth to suck people in to buying snake oil.
    Here is a quote from Stanford about the study:
    "“This study is a first step toward the development of telomere extension to improve cell therapies and to possibly treat disorders of accelerated aging in humans,” said John Cooke, MD, PhD. Cooke, a co-author of the study, formerly was a professor of cardiovascular medicine at Stanford. He is now chair of cardiovascular sciences at the Houston Methodist Research Institute.

    “We’re working to understand more about the differences among cell types, and how we can overcome those differences to allow this approach to be more universally useful,” said Blau, who also is a member of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

    “One day it may be possible to target muscle stem cells in a patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, for example, to extend their telomeres. There are also implications for treating conditions of aging, such as diabetes and heart disease. This has really opened the doors to consider all types of potential uses of this therapy.”"

    Here is the Stanford link:
    https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2...

    I would love for it to be true, and so would most people. That's why the con is so appealing.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 8 years, 9 months ago
    Life being a process of "self-sustained and self-
    generated action" (Ayn Rand), if there were some
    way that it were guaranteed to continue forever,
    the very guarantee would mean that it would no
    longer be self-sustaine and self-generating, and
    then it would no longer be life.
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  • Posted by woodlema 8 years, 9 months ago
    First what is a Nobel Laureate?

    Well ANYONE who is part of the European Union, IPCC, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, International Atomic Energy Agency; Al Gore, Barack Obama, United Nations; International Campaign to Ban Landmines;, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, or roughly 2 billion other people. So being a Nobel Laureate is pretty much a worthless thing anymore to claim to be one of.

    Having said that... If these two did discover something this significant then they would be ACTUAL Nobel Prize Winners.which would include dinner with the King of Sweden.
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  • Posted by $ johnrobert2 8 years, 9 months ago
    I would really like to see the next 500 years. As I am nearer 70 than 60 and am frequently mistaken for much less, the availability to age back 25 years is appealing, especially if the treatment can be taken serially PRN. Granted, at a certain point, you reach a point of negative value (with the current program) but who is to say a more efficacious treatment will not be available by then. Read the Honor Harrington series by David Weber for a generational upgrade to a prolong program.
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 8 years, 9 months ago
    I would suggest reading "After many a summer dies the swan" by Huxley. This story explores the consequences of immortality and narcissism and growing old with no hope of death.
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  • Posted by $ 8 years, 9 months ago
    I can see this as an eco-alarmists wet dream if distributed to everyone (straight from the last 40 years of their propaganda):
    overpopulation, food shortages. water shortages. Deliberate genocide.

    If kept from the general population and only given to those who can afford the treatment, I can see this as the foundation for a ruling elite who in time becomes ordained by god to lead. All that would be needed is for common folk to grow ignorant of the treatment.

    I don't want to live forever. I've seen enough. In fact I'm more than a little curious since, to me anyway, the possibilities are endless.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 9 months ago
    All depend on the quality of living. If I got be ina diaper or on some kind of hook up unable to function at all hell no. Keeping people alive like that is both cruel but sadly not unusual punishment without benefit of trial or legal council. Kinda like flying as a form of transportation. Cruel but not unusual. I have about 20-25 to go at best. After watching or hearing about my fathers last year I hope it's 15-20. But it will be productive and useful by my standards.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 8 years, 9 months ago
    I would take the treatment so I could live longer to where Nanotechnology can inject nannites into my body to repair my lumbar and cervical spine ravage by severe arthritus. Then repair my brain chemistry so I wouldn't have to take expensive meds to take care of that but causes weight gain. But most of all is to experience being free of pain from what I mentioned above.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 9 months ago
    This is genuine but it's only the start of a long chain of discoveries needed before they can deliver.

    The cryonics community has been watching these folks for some time now.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 9 months ago
    Aside from whether this discovery is real or not, I would say that; Yes, I would like to live a very long time, [Conscious human kind was not meant to live and die like the animal kingdom. We became conscious.] Reason?; There are no certainties that any meaningful after life exists, maybe energy doesn't die; just changes...but that's not the issue. The issue is...is it a meaningful, value creating existence? Will it build upon the knowledge, accomplishments and memories of this life?. Or...is there just nothing, no memory, no consciousness or just another form of slavery. As bad as things have gotten here in this life, on earth, in these times...we have choices, hope, relationships and endless dreams of creating value and physically experiencing new things. I do not want to give all that up...not willingly...I'll fight to the last!
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  • Posted by LarryHeart 8 years, 9 months ago
    The important fact, from the actual Stanford Report, overlooked in the marketing video, is that the new procedure DOES NOT CAUSE CANCER. So the whole RNA whatever that the Stock Fund marketer went on about is incorrect.

    "The transient effect is somewhat like tapping the gas pedal in one of a fleet of cars coasting slowly to a stop. The car with the extra surge of energy will go farther than its peers, but it will still come to an eventual halt when its forward momentum is spent. On a biological level, this means the treated cells don’t go on to divide indefinitely, which would make them too dangerous to use as a potential therapy in humans because of the risk of cancer."
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  • Posted by philosophercat 8 years, 9 months ago
    The simple fact is all cells die by necessity. The body regulates the production of cells as the means of maintaining homeostasis and the corollary is called "apoptosis" or the process by which cells terminate themselves. This allows the new cells to grow. But the video is a sham as it uses false science to sell a report to get you hooked on buying future stock growth.
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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years, 9 months ago
    these guys should think about levi genes they live forever.
    seems to me they are like politicians who never do anything but talk talk talk without saying anything. they are going to die and they will go to the grave thinking that there is an immortality gene unless they talk to me. I will then advise them that there is none so they can die in peace knowing they did work for naught. its all bs
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