politics

that's pretty similar to what my knowledge is

Yeah as far as I am aware, thats why old people literally fall apart

over time

and things start failing

the junk strands at the end of your DNA wear away

and eventually it starts getting into the important stuff

They look and feel younger but their faces stiffens up and eventually deteriorates all the same

Exhibit A, hillary clinton

are we sure this is not a placebo effect

like oh yeah if you drink this toddlers blood you will totally feel 10 years younger

Ah yes, a placebo that works on rats

to be fair gent

health science is fake

anyways

they told the rats that they should feel younger

but thats fair

anyways, this idea contradicts my knowledge of cellular aging

yeah

I could see this working if you injected a sufficient portion of a persons cells with newer copies

that are less deteriorated

something like this

listen pika

injecting young rat blood into your veins will cause the telomeres to regenerate

Holy shit

robs rat meme

he wants to live forever

we solved the meta

also if you inject an entier loli's worth of blood

then you just get negligible senescence

however you spell it

You need to follow alchemic laws of equivalent exchange

1 loli

if you take a lolis worth of blood injected into you, you must inject her with an equal amount of semen

its only fair

gives you the rest of the loli's natural lifespan

wouldnt the actual way to reverse aging be something ethically questionable like gene editing or something

I think the easiest way would be to stop it instead of reversing it

well yeah

there are some animals that just don't age at all

since it's already a natural occurance

I think the best we will be able to do is slow it

arent those "immortal" lifeforms small though

giant tortises are not small

yeah, simple lifeforms inherently will have less cellular decay

so that fits my understanding

humans all things considered are pretty complicated

mgiht have something to do with metabloic rate

wouldn't it be difficult to do anything like slowing age when it comes to the brain though?

afaik the brain doesnt exactly regenerate lost cells, i could be wrong though

that sounds right to me

While the vast majority of our brain's cells are formed while we are in the womb, there are certain parts of the brain that continue to create new neural cells during infancy. Until recent decades, however, the brain’s limited capacity to regenerate triggered the belief that neurogenesis—the birth of new brain cells—ceased soon after this stage.

brain cells don't divide after a certain point

Yeah I think brain cells would be the big hurdle

that was bottlekneck how long we could realistically extend human life

but as far as I know

the main problem with aging is when cells stop dividing b/c the DNA gets too fucked

so brain cells are kinda unrelated

I mean eventually all your brain cells will die though

but I'm not sure that they really age

idk

doesn't the liver have the ability to completely regenerate itself even from a small portion?

just put liver genes in our brains

that does not sound right considering how many people have fucked their livers via alcohol

okay 51%

makes more sense

I think starfish can regenerate like their whole body

starfish can, yes

yeah

simple things can

worms can just become 2 worms

I assume with the liver it depends on what parts are damaged

if you cut them in half

some worms pika

I uh

tired that one time

lmao

and ended up killing a whole contrainer of worms

lmfao