Cool now you can not only be an economic vampire, but a real one too! Still can't garuntee surviving getting run over tho
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Well I sure as hell wouldn't mind living forever, so I'm very glad these rich assholes are volunteering themselves as lab rats.
AI CONCISE SUMMARY: The article explores the growing trend of "de-aging" among wealthy individuals, who use unconventional methods such as blood transfusions and extreme diets to reverse the aging process. This trend is fueled by Silicon Valley's obsession with life extension and celebrities like Jennifer Lopez. The article also examines ethical concerns surrounding these practices, the growing popularity of epigenetic age testing, and the potential for home DNA tests to promote healthy lifestyle changes.
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Whether it’s taking a shuttle to the edge of space, buying the biggest yacht, or challenging one another to a cage fight, with great wealth and power seems to come a voracious desire to engage in games of one-upmanship.
A few players of this peculiar game stand out: Steve Aoki, the DJ and heir to the Benihana restaurant chain, appears toward the bottom of the site’s “absolute” ranking, which reflects the 25 competitors with the lowest rate of aging.
Tally Health, a new biotech company co-founded by Harvard scientist David Sinclair — who is something of a celebrity in the longevity community — boasts some Hollywood A-list investors: John Legend, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashton Kutcher, Pedro Pascal, and Zac Efron.
“Somebody’s got to blaze the trail,” but there are also plenty of companies offering snake oil, says Michael Lustgarten, a Rejuvenation Olympics competitor who has a PhD in physiology and is a scientist at Tufts University’s Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging.
Life extension does sound like pseudoscience at first blush, but epigenetics, which is concerned with how our genes are expressed depending on environment and lifestyle, is one field that’s widely considered promising, making immense strides over the past decade in unlocking the secrets of how we age.
Johnson, who made his hundreds of millions after selling a payments platform he developed to eBay in 2013, has become renowned not for what he’s invented, sold, or designed, as is the case for many other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, but for the unimaginably strict lifestyle he leads.
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