BS: A new blue pill

Subject: BS: A new blue pill
From: Donuel
Date: 05 May 16 - 09:11 AM

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/534636/the-anti-aging-pill/

Available this week.
a life extension nutraceutical

It works with worms and mice but with us it is still debatable.

Subject: RE: BS: A new blue pill
From: Jack Campin
Date: 05 May 16 - 10:08 AM

Next question:

what do you do about a plague of immortal mice?

Subject: RE: BS: A new blue pill
From: frogprince
Date: 05 May 16 - 10:18 AM

And please, God, if it keeps bodies alive longer, let it also keep the brain functional.

Subject: RE: BS: A new blue pill
From: Senoufou
Date: 05 May 16 - 12:32 PM

Jack, you create lots of immortal cats!

This is all about BIG money and vulnerable people who are terrified of growing old and even (gasp!) dying. I bet there are serious drawbacks with these tablets, or else they're completely useless.

Subject: RE: BS: A new blue pill
From: Donuel
Date: 05 May 16 - 01:11 PM

Jack, that is a funny butimportant question.

In one of my old essays I wrote of the tendency to price for the wealthy market. What do we do with a hundred immortal Bill Gates.
Of course immortality is not the reality here.

I am suspicious of anything that begins with niconoid but I know the research is about 10 years old now and has the support of Nobel Prize winners.

The early attempts to extend life involved removing the code that normally told a cell to stop dividing or renewing itself. That age defying technique did work but occasionally resulted in cancer.

If we lived 500 years
I hope there'd be less misery
there may not be fewer tears
but we might learn from history

Subject: RE: BS: A new blue pill
From: Mr Red
Date: 05 May 16 - 02:16 PM

we never learn from history, we learn from experience. As the old saying goes:
History repeats itself, it has to, no-one is listening.