Beyond longevity: The DIY quest to cheat death and stop aging
Individuals like Ken Scott engage in DIY biohacking for longevity, aiming to live until 500 through extreme lifestyle changes and unregulated interventions. Biohackers push aging research boundaries, bypassing FDA regulations. Despite concerns, biohackers drive innovation in longevity research.
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In the quest for longevity and to combat aging, individuals like Ken Scott engage in DIY biohacking, experimenting with untested therapies and self-experimentation. Scott, at 79, aims to live until 500 through extreme lifestyle changes and unregulated interventions like amniotic fluid injections and Dasatinib. The biohacking community, including figures like Liz Parrish, seeks to push the boundaries of aging research, often bypassing FDA regulations through medical tourism. Despite concerns from experts like Judy Campisi about potential risks and lack of critical thinking in self-experimentation, biohackers continue to pursue radical life extension. The high costs and regulatory hurdles in traditional clinical trials prompt individuals to take their health into their own hands, seeking ways to improve healthspan and potentially extend lifespan. As the field of longevity research evolves with private funding and technological advancements, biohackers play a crucial role in driving innovation and exploring uncharted territories in the pursuit of a longer and healthier life.
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2 commentsBy cancer I mean that humanity is a super-organism and humans are the cells of that organism. Cells that stop dying in large numbers (while still reproducing) is the definition of cancer. There’s no reason to think this will affect the super-organism that is humanity any different than any other organisms.
There’s two potentially terrifying outcomes. We could get the equivalent of the human immune system: those who try to stay alive too long will be hunted down and killed involuntarily. With the exception of the ultra elite of course.
The other terrifying option is that we stop having children. This would be infinitely sad. It will probably also lead to a slow decline of humanity.
This is probably one of the best explanations of the Fermi paradox: a civilisation that learns to avoid death will probably have a very small chance of adapting to that change without killing itself (war over resources and such) or slowly decaying to the point of driving itself to a slow extinction or irrelevance. Perhaps becoming so risk averse that the logical conclusion is to just live their infinite lives in a 100% safe virtual reality.
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