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runner_79 said:Blasphemy hahah...where is this fountain of youth you speak of? Lol
Haha. HGH and all kind of other peptides they now have... Stem cells lol. Its possible haha.
runner_79 said:Blasphemy hahah...where is this fountain of youth you speak of? Lol
Haha. HGH and all kind of other peptides they now have... Stem cells lol. Its possible haha.
bigdavid said:I think humans could easily live to mid 100s maybe even close to 200 with the rate technology is increasing. But this still might take a few hundred years from where we are now.
Most of it will likely be expensive or illegal.
bigdavid said:Not really its all about preventing chronic diseases...heart disease, cancer, etc. There are people who have lived to 120 - 130 already when before the era of modern medicine most people would be lucky to get to 50.
my girlfriend's Grandmother lives in a tiny Greek village and just turned 104 she lives by herself and gardens house cleans etc all without modern medicineYup. Prevent systematic inflation and I'm sure you'll live much longer.
truthornothin said:Oh one more thing, My anthropology professor said that before man began to propogat wheat the average life expectancy was 70+ years, after man started farming instead of living off the land it dropped to 30
my girlfriend's Grandmother lives in a tiny Greek village and just turned 104 she lives by herself and gardens house cleans etc all without modern medicine
bigdavid said:There are also people who smoke cigarettes since they were 20 and never have cancer and live a long life. Not saying modern medicine is necessary for everyone but it does help someone survive if they are suffering from a chronic disease. Not arguing just adding to your posts.
Gene expression and epi genetics. All new fields of study as well.![]()
Definitely. I am looking forward to when we all have a copy of our genome in our medical files. This may happen in the next 5 - 10 years.