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  sheekus - 13 years ago

  definition of "normal" changes. 50 years is pretty good for any medieval man, but now it's considered young.
  I am hoping for kurzweilian radical life extension, but I fear it'll only be for the rich and powerful.

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  post-post - 13 years ago

  ... sorry, diesel, not diesel gasoline.
  But we DO take better care of our cars than our bodies. It is against the law to sell harmful drugs but not harmful food.

  Our priorities are ill-considered.

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  post-post - 13 years ago

  If we all make it to 100 I will be satisfied.
  Funny, though: we take better care of our cars than ourselves. We wouldn't put diesel gasoline in a car that doesn't use diesel- but we eat food that doesn't belong in our stomachs.

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  Max Kaehn - 13 years ago

  I’m 40 and I choose to live as if I might live for centuries if I take care of myself. The retiring Baby Boom generation is going to fund a lot of research from which I hope to benefit.

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  post-post - 13 years ago

  cuts both ways... if certain optimists will tone down their hype, some of us might more readily bump up our faith.

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  {i}Pan` - 13 years ago

  Oh ye of little faith :)

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  post-post - 13 years ago

  ... those under 35 (in fact, better to start in HS/college) who consult with doctors and take the latest efficacious supplements might live longer and or healthier than any of us have ever done--
  if youth isn't wasted on young, after all.

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  post-post - 13 years ago

  There are a few supplements I'm aware of that show promise right now:
  glucosamine
  Q10
  sulforaphane gluco sinolate
  petasites hybrides extrant.
  And others.

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  Mike Treder - 13 years ago

  Bruce — I set this poll up, on behalf of the IEET. As of this minute, we have had 73 responses. The poll will be up for another 12-14 days, and I expect that by the end we will have had between 300 and 400 responses.

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  W. Bruce Johnston - 13 years ago

  Can someone (whoever set this wondrous thing up, preferably) tell us what the sample size is here? What have been the total of repsonses so far?

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  Pastor_Alex - 13 years ago

  /sarcasm I expect to be carried off into heaven in a flaming chariot. /end sarcasm

  I fully expect to die. Everybody dies. Even God died. When I talk about eternal life, I'm not talking about living forever. Living forever as I am would be horrific. I am much more interested in life with more dimensions. The great thing is that I don't have to die to catch glimpses of it in this existence.

  As for life extending therapies, what youth is going to worry about life extending regimens when they already think they are going to live forever? What we really need to recapture is the ability of children to live completely in the present moment outside the tyranny of time, at least until Mom calls them in for supper.

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  post-post - 13 years ago

  But FAR be it from me not to accentuate the positive; i.e. there are ways to protect one's DNA, though it takes a great deal of research for laymen to make the correct choices. However if youths were to actively, continually, seek the latest advice concerning health matters they might add more decades to their lives or live better lives now.
  Here's a specific example: what if youths were to begin aspirin regimen (81 mg.) at the earliest possible age? and so forth.

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  Summerspeaker - 13 years ago

  I chose the first option, but with a caveat. I don't know the future and consider a wide variety of scenarios plausible. If I had to bet, though, it'd be on dying relatively young regardless of rejuvenation therapy.

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  post-post - 13 years ago

  This is an "I don't know" poll for me.
  Predicting electronics is a helluva lot better than predicting lifespans. One could write "electric cars in 2050" and feel something like... confidence.
  Lifespans? who knows.
  Some of us at IEET might die in a few years, for all we know.

  Let Aubrey answer this poll query, not me.