Diabetes drug Metformin To Let Humans Live to 120? (1 Viewer)

[(HULK)]

I would only want to live to 120 if I could feel/look like 30 the entire time. I saw an old guy trip once walking down a city sidewalk; I thought he died right in front of me - ambulance came and everything. No idea how he turned out.

Yeah not looking forward to that.

Thats the goal man.

No one is trying to extend the old and decrepit years.

Well

a lot of old a decrepit people are trying to extend those years

Sure. But I think they'd prefer to have those years in their 25 year old body versus their current and future aged body.

 

[Fennis]

I would only want to live to 120 if I could feel/look like 30 the entire time. I saw an old guy trip once walking down a city sidewalk; I thought he died right in front of me - ambulance came and everything. No idea how he turned out.

Yeah not looking forward to that.

Thats the goal man.

No one is trying to extend the old and decrepit years.

Well

a lot of old a decrepit people are trying to extend those years

Sure. But I think they'd prefer to have those years in their 25 year old body versus their current and future aged body.

do you think when this comes out you will Benjamin Button yourself to 25 or freeze time?

 

[(HULK)]

I would only want to live to 120 if I could feel/look like 30 the entire time. I saw an old guy trip once walking down a city sidewalk; I thought he died right in front of me - ambulance came and everything. No idea how he turned out.

Yeah not looking forward to that.

Thats the goal man.

No one is trying to extend the old and decrepit years.

Well

a lot of old a decrepit people are trying to extend those years

Sure. But I think they'd prefer to have those years in their 25 year old body versus their current and future aged body.

do you think when this comes out you will Benjamin Button yourself to 25 or freeze time?

I'm only 38, but I'd roll it back to 25ish in a heartbeat.

Other cool stuff will be available by the time this happens. Look into gene therapy that inhibits myostatin. Basically promotes muscle growth like crazy, making it very hard to have an epic beer gut like I do currently. Pretty sure I'll be signing up for that one as well.

 

[lod01]

1st law: Jobless, lazy, losers cannot be allowed to take this potential life extending drug.

Professor Lithgow believes that, in the future, young people may be given a type of ageing ‘vaccine’ to slow down ageing. He believes it could have a far bigger impact on extending population lifespan that finding a cure for cancer.

Definitely need to screen the population.

I'd like to have Calvin Johnson, LeVeon Bell and Devonta Freeman enrolled in the trials.

 

[Seatown Mofos]

So what's the ideal dosage amount on this? Is it different than the amount to regulate a person's diabetes? Is it like two pills a day to treat diabetes, but ten pills a day to ward of aging? And what's the cost? Cause if I could go out and pick some of this up for a reasonable amount, who wouldn't do this?

 

[heckmanm]

One of the side effects of the drug is increased flatulence. Not sure if that's the kind of world I want to spend 80 more years in.

Yea, my wife isn't so pleased with me on this side effect.

To say nothing of the increased risk of a dislocated finger.

 

[culdeus]

So what's the ideal dosage amount on this? Is it different than the amount to regulate a person's diabetes? Is it like two pills a day to treat diabetes, but ten pills a day to ward of aging? And what's the cost? Cause if I could go out and pick some of this up for a reasonable amount, who wouldn't do this?

standard dose is 500mg at meals. It's cheap as hell. Like pennies a day.

 

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Looks like a 1 year supply (500mg 2x daily) is about $36

Disclaimer: no idea if that site is legit... first option that came up.

 

[heckmanm]

So, basically at whatever age you'd start taking it, the aging process slows down from there? I'm guessing to get to 120, you'd need to start taking it while fairly young and healthy - you don't wait until you're 80 and then BOOM! get another 40 years.

I wonder if it's more a matter of extending the time you have left by 50% or so (120 being a 50% increase over the current expectancy of ~80). So if you start taking it when you're 50, maybe you live to 95-100 instead of 80?

If it really works, and usage became widespread, it would have enormous impacts on the economy. Do you have to work longer to save more $ for a long retirement? And if more people keep working until they're 75 or 80, what does that do to the job market for people entering the workforce? What happens to SS and Medicare (or even private insurance/annuities) if people start living significantly longer than the life expectancy values that were used to calculate their premiums?

 

[Sand]

I hear cold fusion is right around the corner too.

I'm not a believer in this. I'd love to see it happen, but from what I understand it violates what we know about physics.

It's real. Energy parity has already been achieved (note that's energy produced, not energy extracted). Many teams are going about this in innovative ways. If anything our political system has chosen the wrong horse - I don't think ITER is the answer. It will be one of the others.

 

[AnonymousBob]

We'll be able to rehash the same arguments in this forum for another 70+ years.

 

[NCCommish]

Actually like Hulk I find the genetics work a lot more promising than this. Although if this is legit it will be way cheaper initially.

 

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New SS age: 120

 

[James Daulton]

In our lifetime, I'd wager we won't see cold fusion or regular lifespans of 120. Maybe for someone who's just born, but not us. We'll probably see continued improvement in our lifespan into the early 90's I'd guess.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Metformin is great. Wife has been on it for awhile. It's not really a drug, unless if you consider something like rosemary extract a drug.

I take 1500mg a day - I don't feel healthier.

 

[(HULK)]

Actually like Hulk I find the genetics work a lot more promising than this. Although if this is legit it will be way cheaper initially.

Way cheaper. Gene therapy runs like 300k for just the tailored virus. This is less than a dollar a day.