Just join the American senate like the rest of the eternals
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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All that money, time and effort in order for a 46 year old to look somewhere in his mid 40s.
Yeah, he looks his age. At least he's relatively healthy, aside from experimenting with those boutique supplements/drugs. It sucks that he pulls in other people into his cult.
I just hope that he's got nice decent medical advisors working with actual doctors and medical staff, so that all that money he's throwing at this at least trickles down to people that deserve it.
No, his body just did that naturally.
Ok, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it was probably just time that aged him.
Drugs aside, that time thing is hard to avoid.
Dude, get a normal fucking hobby.
IMMORTALITY!
If you're immortal, your can play through ALL normal hobbies - twice!
Check mate, mortal!
This just in, drugs have side effects and aging is very complex.
I would have so much more respect for this douche if he was doing all this in a legitimately scientific way with the purpose of benefiting humanity.
But nope, he's just deeply insecure about aging and is fine with burning money and experimenting on himself in order to feel better about it.
What's wrong with that? He's a millionaire who's experimenting on himself and reporting his findings? Definitely extreme but what value is there in hating the guy?
Let him be insecure and cope how he wants, he's small fry compared to the billionaire problem at hand
yeah exactly, maybe he'll find something useful along the way. At least the rich have (hopefully) stopped their usual "youth restoring" rituals like bathing in infant blood
He injected himself with his sons blood....
ah, nevermind
Don’t forget stealing his child’s blood.
Hey! They consented! Supposedly.
I'll take "Coerced" for $500, Alex.
I’m honestly just deeply interested in this guy every time I hear about him.
Not because I think he’s smart, on to something, or at all worthwhile though.
It’s just…. Kind of morbidly entertaining to watch a man spend so much time and money to deal with an obvious and incredible fear of death.
He’s going to die some day, and probably from one of these things he’s paying for to avoid dying. It’s Qin Shi Huang shit.
And, ya know what? There are some truly wonderful and interesting works of philosophy dealing with his exact problem, but our boy is too much of a tech bro to even consider that someone may have found a way to deal with the fear of death a few thousand years ago.
So, fuck it, burn that cash bud.
At least he's using all of the anti aging treatments on himself like a lab rat. Only he will have to suffer if something goes terribly wrong. And maybe something does work and it'll be actually useful to everyone else.
This is the same guy that's using his teenage son as a blood donor too though right? That's the part I'm not okay with.
Yeah that one was a bit fucked up, but at least he isn't doing it anymore after finding out it does absolutely fuck all for him.
That's where I'm at on this. The dude is a major dork for trying to de-age himself BUT, like you said, he's the test subject! There's a long and storied history of self-experimentation leading to discoveries.
I probably don't support how he made his wealth (haven't looked into it) but I support his freedom to do what he wants with his body.
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Honestly he should just put his soul in a painting
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This will not end well for him. He's doing a bunch of experiments, all at once, with a sample size of one.
Shhhhh, shhhhh, let him cook.....himself.
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Bet you anything he has not tried plutonium. He should try plutonium. Harry Daghlian will live forever. In our hearts and textbooks.
I can't wait to read "Longevity-Obsessed tech millionaire dies of natural causes at 72 years old."
You mean at 60 from a cancer with all the sketchy garbage his body had to assimilate?
I remember him taking snake venom injections ffs
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he has used his own teenage son’s blood to test whether transfusions from a younger person had any direct health benefit on someone his age (he has since discovered that they do not)
Imagine if it worked, though. This dude would have a basement full of teenagers, their blood being siphoned for his own twisted purpose.
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He could be spending this fortune on real medical research. What an asshole.
He's "only" a centimillionaire, a single clinical trial can cost >$20m.
Why? He's publishing his results, it's a good data point. He's a human trial on safety of some of these drugs. And it's his money after all.
Many of the substances these people try end up being valuable for people with chronic fatigue and related autoimmune diseases.
Does it really matter whether he's driven by selfishness or by the desire to help others? Are all researchers purely altruistic?
This dude takes a ton of pills a day and uses his son’s blood, but still looks older than some Asians several years older than him.
Or Paul Rudd, who is nearly 10 years older. Some people just age better than others.
It might be more science-y if he had an identical twin and only one of them was getting the supplements.
He's looking like a Dollar Store Data
Dude took an immunosuppressant for five years to try and live longer.
I mean... when you say it out loud, sure that does seem misguided...
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