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- lhbaker, on 03/13/2008, -0/+9Great. I applaud them. Now I wish they'd get back to work before I die.
- elliotys, on 03/13/2008, -0/+4Im blind, please type in brail.
- RhodesSkolar, on 03/13/2008, -0/+3Senior author, 127 year old Matt Kaeberlein was quoted as saying, "Most people don't want to cut their diet that drastically, just so they may live a little longer. But someday in the future, we may be able to accomplish the same thing with a pill."
- NanoStuff, on 03/14/2008, -0/+3Age interrupts proper function of the organism, therefore it is pathology. Given that aging is a collection of a substantial sum of underlying pathologies, it is therefore a disease. Contrary to your argument, it is as a result of these pathologies, the ultimate disease.
-Even if scientists found every single cause of aging-
The causes of aging are not that many and at this point in time they are pretty well known. What is not well known are the metabolic processes that result in the associated damage, but this is no more important than knowing what kind of bird damaged your plane's propeller. The issue still remains intervention, and that's progressing better than you'd believe simply because aging intervention science is directly associated with that of intervention against more immediate diseases.
The problem is the accumulation of defects in the root function of biology cause a branching of possible diseases. Restore initial function, all conceivable diseases that could result from these complications get eliminated as a result.
I'm also willing to argue that you're incorrect about the risk of mortality of a particularly healthy 72 year old person. There's no supernatural force that cuts your life when all biological functions are operating well. - Eallan, on 03/14/2008, -0/+3You mean saying the same thing that someone always says in these threads for easy diggs? I swear every digg article has the same ***** comments.
- Frost9999, on 03/13/2008, -4/+6Buried as lame, world is only 10k years max.
- GuruM, on 03/14/2008, -1/+3embrace your mortality? puh-lease, old age IS a disease.
- RobotBuddha, on 03/14/2008, -1/+3Old age isn't a disease, but there's a host of diseases that are associated with it. Even if you have some existential meaning attached to your death, surely you'd prefer it to happen in a body not undergoing constant pain and a mind rendered crippled by progressive neuronal damage.
Even if scientists found every single cause of aging and managed by some miracle to implement them in humans, that's just the aging process. You'd still die of accident at some point, or simply choose the date of your own death. But that's probably not the way it's going to go down at this early stage. If the state of the art in aging research could be applied to humans by magic wand, you'd still die of old age not 'that' long after the current maximum human lifespan. The difference is just that it'd be in a body far more healthy than it would have been if you'd died at a natural 72 years old. - carpespasm, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1I'd say it's at least more likely, though still a long shot.
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1"..they soon after ate them".
- inactive, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1I've tried it and can only conclude that you have to be overweight to begin with.
If you are of normal weight (BMI less than or equal to 25) on a 2,000 - 2,500 calorie diet, a 1,000 calorie diet is not a good idea for you.
Next I will try 1 day/week with 1 meal and see if I can maintain weight and energy on that. - SydneyHopper, on 03/14/2008, -1/+2The next great promise of 'science will let us live forever' replaces the lie of 'God will save all our souls'
- mr.gates, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1Well I have longevity in my pants.
- oep4, on 03/13/2008, -0/+1i hate news about genes. it's usually so misleading
- RobotBuddha, on 03/14/2008, -0/+1I always cringe when pieces are done on people doing CR. They almost always focus on the people who look like walking skeletons, and ignore the people who just look like they're in good shape. It's the difference between giving an audience an understanding of the lifestyle of CR practitioners, and putting on a carny freakshow to grab viewers.
- Frost9999, on 03/13/2008, -1/+2Yeah I was just being silly.
- elliotys, on 03/13/2008, -0/+160 minutes did a story on the "restricted diet''several years ago. It showed a couple, husband and wife, that were doing it. This is no exaggeration, they seriously looked like skin and bones (ie starving to death). It is a severely calorie restricted diet (below a 1000 calories a day), but they said they had plenty of energy and strength(relative, they were by no means bodybuilders). I think at this point it's too early to apply to humans on a large scale but it would be interesting to see how that specific couple is doing.
- NightcrawlerX, on 03/13/2008, -2/+3"separated by about 1.5 billion years in evolutionary change" !!!
- TrendyIdeology, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1I already have longevity in my jeans.
See what I did there? - Craga89, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1I see what you did there.
- inactive, on 03/13/2008, -1/+1good, now my girl won't complain about me being to fast. right? o who am i kidding. this will probably satisfy my hand
- Versh, on 03/13/2008, -2/+2That's sarcasm right? It's so hard to tell.... because you should know, many geologists consider the age of the Earth to be around 4.54 billion years-- by radiometric age dating of meteorite material, carbon dating, astronomy, etc.
10,000 years ago, (8,000 B.C.) humans were complex enough to have had formed small civilizations for hundreds of years. Mesopotamia was quite developed. - rectagon, on 03/14/2008, -1/+1Drat. You mean the Bible is right again.. that people did live to be 800 years old just by having these genes turn on/off?
Scratch that one... ARGH - chikkychappy, on 03/15/2008, -0/+0death by accident? Ha. someday, there'd be such thing as downloadable consciousness.
- viraltoad, on 03/14/2008, -2/+1since when was old age treated like a disease? embrace your mortality. thats what makes life so precious.
- quarby, on 03/13/2008, -1/+0whispers
- icycowpoop, on 03/13/2008, -1/+0http://youtube.com/watch?v=0md6Flcrd0s&feature=rel ... in video
- keithjinternet, on 03/13/2008, -3/+0>:O *they :(
- keithjinternet, on 03/13/2008, -6/+0So are the Levi's genes? ... Get it??
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