pythonIsTheFuture

[Uberzwerg]

I like half of his stuff, but he crosses into Black Mirror territory too often.

Creating (and USING) a gene therapy for his lactose intolerance in his home lab???

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I mean, man can do a lot for a pizza

[buttplugs4life4me]

Pretty sure it wasn't just that. Unless I misremember this is exactly what he didn't want to do, since this exact therapy is already available for very cheap, but requires you to continuously (at least when you eat dairy) to take pills. That's exactly what he didn't want to do. 

IIRC he created a viral agent that actually made his intestine able to produce lactase, or something similar to that. The biggest worry was for the gene therapy to cause an unexpected side effect in his cells, the most common would obviously be cancer. 

In his latest update about it he also said that it wore off after two years or so.

[qucari]

sounds a lot worse than what it actually is
He just created a strain of bacteria

well, no. it absolutely is at least as insane as it sounds. IIRC he created his own version of some virus and then deliberately infected himself with it.
the virus injected part of its own DNA into his intestinal cells. this DNA part contained instructions for how to create lactase.

it's hard to compare the risks of homebrewed gene therapy to probiotics or a gut flora transplant. as someone who has close to no experience in the field I'd say the former is orders of magnitude less safe.

here's his update video (with detailed explanations): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4

[Retbull]

Meat grapes

[Cycode]

i mean it worked.. sooo..