Optimizing the human healthspan

Hey guys so I'm sure you all remember Dr. David Sinclair on Joe Rogan's podcast last year (which he has now been on twice). He's the guy that spoke about all the ways in which scientists are working towards optimizing the human healthspan  (as one ages) so as to effectively square/increase the lifespan and maybe even reverse one's aging- one of the ways, towards this latter goal, which was administering a set of genes into a patient that effectively "turn back the clock" on the affected cells.

Needless to say, I became extremely motivated to study these mechanisms of molecular biology and genetic engineering so as to be able to apply the knowledge myself, for myself, without having to wait for, what I thought would be, a technology which would only be available to the everyday person some 10+ years down the line. Since then, however, I have learned that there have already been dozens of gene therapies out there which have been getting approved by the FDA to treat various diseases since the 1990's- the cheapest one, to date, being $375,000.

The genetic sequences for these treatments is publically available knowledge because they don't expect the average person to be able, nor have the balls, to duplicate it. Some of the sequences are patented but, with some minor tweeks, all of a sudden you have a "novel gene sequence" which you can then patent and sell to Big Pharma (if you have the ~100k) or, simply, sell "for research purposes only- not intended for human consumption" to the general public so that the general public may apply it to their lab rat at a much much lower rate.

Athletes can inject their lab rats with genes (testosterone, follistatin, EPO, etc) to make them bigger, better, faster, stronger and it is completely undetectable by WADA/USADA because, unlike synthetic hormones, there is no added chemical group (called a functional group) floating around in the bloodstream for them to detect. Therefore, even if an athlete's lab rat were to test positive for elevated levels of testosterone or EPO (like Olympic cross country skier Eero Mäntyranta's lab rat did in 2005) they can't tell you that it isn't because your lab rat was just simply born that way.


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