A new anti-aging therapy is starting its first human trial – it costs $1M(singularityhub.com) |
A new anti-aging therapy is starting its first human trial – it costs $1M(singularityhub.com) |
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02638-w
I've been thinking about aging interventions lately. My grandfather passed this year, and my grandmother is in poor shape. She's confined to a wheel chair and she's very frail.
Recently, while I was visiting her, she asked about where I was living now, and I told her, and she then asked me if I kept up with <My name> who also lived out there. I smiled, and said that I did, since I don't know what else to say. It hurts to remember her though compared to her current state. When she's more lucid, she talks expectantly of her coming death. Her life now is mainly sleeping and eating with occasional car ride or visit.
I wonder about how ethical it would or wouldn't be to treat her with an experimental aging treatment. The linked article mentions HGH, plus DHEA, and metformin, taken together, reduced 6/6 epigenetic age markers for 9/9 participants. That seems really promising.
I know I could get the paper and find more detailed information about the dosage. I know I could talk to doctors about the safety of it. I'm confident I could convince my grandmother's nurse to administer the additional medication...
It's tough to think about, because, on the one hand, I know it's weird and strange and sounds immoral for an unqualified person to run medical experiments on his grandmother. On the other hand, I also know that her current life is bad and she will soon die. It's just hard for me to conclude that waiting for her death is a better answer than experimenting.
Stay as healthy and active as you possibly can and your odds of going senile or in a nursing home can be minimized.
- Instead of fish oil; very fresh, small, oily fish daily.
- Japanese diet.
- Metformin.
- Significant low-impact, high-extertion exercise.
- 14hr fasting.
- Keeping busy, never "retire."
Don't mean to sound insensitive, but how exactly does one starve one self to death? Did this person had no visits, no family and nobody around watching as this happened? It's not exactly a quick or painless death right?
When he was bedridden by old age he decided to stop eating and that he did.
He was cared by his family but he decided to refuse eating and drinking.
Story has it that just before passing, he asked for a glass of water, drank it all and soon after passed.
I think this should also be taken in the context of the times when death was a different kind of subject I guess.