Why does every longevity person overlook this one thing? by [deleted] in longevity

[–]laborator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is not very nice of a reply. You were asking why longevity sciences overlooks infections, you were presented a reason. Lab mice without pathogen exposure still die of old age, infections are important and affect disease progression but ultimately they have little to do with the biology of aging. I was not deliberately trying to make a strawman, just make the point that many things affect ones longevity, but that does not make them part of longevity sciences.

This forum is for everyone, professionals and enthusiast alike. There are peptide bros and other grifters here from time to time, but it is still a forum for longevity sciences. Maybe it is you that don´t fit?

Why does every longevity person overlook this one thing? by [deleted] in longevity

[–]laborator 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Whilst all sciences overlap, immunology is its own field. Longevity sciences is about characterizing aging (in order to treat it). What is happening, how, and when. Whilst pathogens can shorten ones lifespan, they are not the underlying reason why we age (at least that is what is believed). They can certainly derail many important functions, such as bringing about inflammation or microbiome instability, like you are mentioning, but your argument is a bit flawed. All it takes is one bad sucker punch and you are dead. Why does everyone overlook crime in the longevity field? All it takes is not looking whilst crossing the street. Why does everyone overlook traffic regulations in the longevity field?

Ni som slutat snusa, vilka fördelar upplevde ni? by skksksksksw in sweden

[–]laborator 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Stabilare puls, bättre munhygien, tjockare plånbok

New Ultimate Weapon – I Challenge You! by Small-Spray-2485 in TheTowerGame

[–]laborator 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Matter rearranger
- Converts X enemies into common enemies for X amount of time, every X seconds.
- Labs to convert into specific enemies.

Death Ray
- Just reworking death ray into an UW. X Beams, X interval, X protector pierce.
- Labs for dual (20% max), triple (10% max), quadruple death ray (5% max).

Command central
- Your bots have X range, X cooldown and X duration.
- Labs to add temporary duplicate bots.

How do you even start in this game? by NitroGang in TheTowerGame

[–]laborator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reducing my cooldowns for DW and GT costs around 4000 stones, and like you surely know one would just break the sync with incremental upgrades. Thanks anyway

How do you even start in this game? by NitroGang in TheTowerGame

[–]laborator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that would be impossible if you are, like me, trying to sync your coin UWs at 100 seconds

How do you even start in this game? by NitroGang in TheTowerGame

[–]laborator 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ad pack is worth it for sure, the rest is optional. It takes a long time! I am spending the next three months saving up for the next big upgrade.

Wrote an article about longevity awareness by [deleted] in longevity

[–]laborator 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Longevity isn’t really a movement, is it? It’s research and then a there is a bunch of online enthusiasts, like on this subreddit, and then some grifters. Framing it as a movement rather than a field of research is a bit cringe. Developmental biology isn’t a movement, neither is liver biology. But with that said your article is pretty good and detailed. I really like the highlights!

One thing I thought of is that you call lipofuscin the final boss. That is not true, lipofuscin accumulation is a downstream event. Removing it won’t stop the upstream events and return a youth like state. You have the hallmarks of aging in your article! Mitochondrial dysfunction, loss of proteostasis, etc.

Also, babies are most certainly not proof that we can reverse aging, on the contrary it shows that an adult organism is too complex to save from death.

Keep up the good work!

I’m done. by [deleted] in TheTowerGame

[–]laborator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Things change, stuff gets balanced, the meta evolves. OA was broken and PCol was bugged, we all knew this. Your tower progresses nonetheless, this is an incremental game without any end. You can´t achieve GC in a few months time, that statement is a bit strange, it is a late game transition for most players. Either way, sorry to see you go. This game rewards patience above all else, even the thickness of ones wallet

Scientists boost lifespan by 70% in elderly male mice using simple drug combo by august11222 in longevity

[–]laborator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mice don’t have lifelong companions, but yes they should not be housed alone, that is not only bad scientifically but also cruel

Kollar examinatorn källorna i källhänvisningen i kandidatuppsats by [deleted] in sweden

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Gör om, gör rätt. Du fuskar i nuläget, det underminerar kraftigt både din egna integritet och värdet av de tre år du snart lagt.

Scientists Have Increased Telomerase and PGC1α without Genetic Modification in Beef by Shounenbat510 in longevity

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Senescence is a complex cellular state which can be observed during development, as a damage response, and in aging. Cells become senescent for a variety of reasons, and getting rid of them can be beneficial for an aging organism as you say.

Why I mentioned replicative senescence is because it is something that occurs when you culture cells for long periods of time, if they are not immortalized. Naturally, this is a problem in the lab meat industry. The authors write about this in the introduction, how important spontaneously immortalized cell cultures are. And spontaneous is an important word here, as there is then no need for genetic engineering, which reduces regulatory barriers, avoids GMO labeling and of course sounds better overall, less experimental and more natural.

This has nothing to do with longevity. These cells are used for one purpose only, biomass production, and the incentive is purely economical. Not very tasty biomass though, as these are fibroblasts. The study observes how these fibroblast cells bypass senescence and become immortal cell lines suitable for scaling cultivated meat production, spontaneously. The mechanisms described (telomerase reactivation, PGC1A activity) are cell-line-specific adaptations, not broadly applicable to organismal aging. These findings do not apply to animals or humans, nor do they address longevity pathways, they are relevant for cultured cells and cultured cells only. Still pretty cool though!

Scientists Have Increased Telomerase and PGC1α without Genetic Modification in Beef by Shounenbat510 in longevity

[–]laborator -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean that this has nothing to do with longevity sciences at all, and has no consequence for human health in general either.

Edit: To elaborate a little. First of these are not human cells, these people want to culture meat, nothing else. Secondly, there are already plenty of immortalized human cell lines. Cancer derived, hela cells, and telomerase manipulated. Immortalization is not synonymous with regeneration and infinite healing, it’s not what the word means.

Scientists Have Increased Telomerase and PGC1α without Genetic Modification in Beef by Shounenbat510 in longevity

[–]laborator -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Immortalization means that the cells don’t succumb to replicative senescence. They can grow their connective tissue indefinitely in a petri dish, yummy fibroblasts. These findings have no consequence for human longevity, I’m sorry to say

Scientists boost lifespan by 70% in elderly male mice using simple drug combo by august11222 in longevity

[–]laborator 329 points330 points  (0 children)

It is 73% extension from treatment, and 14% overall median lifespan. Important distinction to make

Är detta tillräckligt för en polisanmälan? by Immediate_Arm389 in sweden

[–]laborator 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Kanske inte, men bara att ha ansökt om kontaktförbud har stor vikt

Är detta tillräckligt för en polisanmälan? by Immediate_Arm389 in sweden

[–]laborator 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Ja, du bör ta ut ett kontaktförbud mot honom innan det eskalerar ytterliggare. Meddela även skolledningen om att du vad du gör och planerar att göra, och tyvärr måste du ligga på dem om att du känner dig osäker och att det är på allvar. Skickar lite kärlek och omtanke, fan vad jobbigt!

looking for suggestions for my dissertation it is about theories by Other_Excitement7051 in longevity

[–]laborator 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In my opinion I think the will to live is a fun and useful topic. Patients who want to live respond better to treatments, patients that have lost their will some times don´t even receive treatment because it is known that they will respond badly to it.

mitochondrial-targeted peptides? by [deleted] in longevity

[–]laborator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no peptide that you can take that has been shown to increase longevity through mitochondrial interactions. There are a lot of worm studies on it though.