Peter Diamandis, a week away from turning 63, bounds out of a Starbucks on a recent morning with a cup of decaf, his daily medley of 70 supplement capsules in his pocket and, tucked under his left arm, a box of freshly deposited poop.
The serial entrepreneur is in the standard uniform of serial entrepreneurs: jeans, sneakers, fitted black T-shirt, Apple Watch, Oura Ring and puffer vest, the back of which says, “Life is short … until you extend it.”
“I woke up at 6. I meditated for 15 minutes. I took fecal samples — I hate to say that, unappetizing, sorry,” Diamandis says as he makes his way up Wilshire Boulevard. “Went through my dental protocol. Did push-ups and sit-ups and squats. And then came here.”
“Here” is a sixth-floor doctor’s office in Santa Monica, where the XPrize founder has been coming every few weeks to undergo therapeutic plasma exchange. The $7,500 procedure involves removing blood, running it through a machine to separate out the plasma and replace it with albumin and saline, and then returning the replenished blood to the body.
Bottles of albumin are used in a therapeutic plasma exchange treatment. Immortality seekers are experimenting with a host of therapies in their quest to live forever.
“I’m basically giving myself an oil change,” Diamandis says once he’s hooked up, a large-gauge needle poking out of each arm, deep red blood flowing in both directions. He’ll be here for the next three hours.
Therapeutic plasma exchange is typically done to treat a number of diseases, but as far as Diamandis knows — and he has gone to great lengths to know — he is in excellent health. Instead, he’s using it prophylactically as part of the $120,000 he spends every year to live as long as possible.
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“No one wants to be 150 drooling in a wheelchair,” says Diamandis, whose extensive self-testing includes sitting in front of a 4-foot red-light panel every morning in his Santa Monica home (he believes the therapy improves skin health and reduces inflammation in the body) and off-label usage of rapamycin, an immunosuppressant drug that has been shown to slow cellular aging in mice and other animals.
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KAB001
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I for one find it very reassuring that the lady at the top of the “anti-aging” leaderboard only spends about $200 a month on her protocol, including gym membership…
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Agreed, the marginal gains from large investments seem to be pretty minimal right now. Unless you have an early stage of cancer that can be detected from one of the new blood based biomarkers or full-body MRI scans done regularly.
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AnUser
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Question is does that measure aging accurately?
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Now, don’t hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won’t another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
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Of course, trying to prevent aging has been around forever.
I discussed this before in another older thread.
Back in the 50’s Gerovital was the rage of many celebrities.
It is rumored that the Gabor sisters took it.
The original version contained procaine (so it was soon outlawed in the U.S.
They looked really good for a very long time.
Joan Collins is amazing at 91.
It would be good to know if Procaine, also known as novocaine, has any life extension properties.
'Notables such as French President Charles De Gaulle, U.S. President John F. Kennedy, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong, and Vietnamese Chairman Ho Chi Minh have traveled to Romania to benefit this anti-aging therapy.[citation needed] Other well-known people, including actresses Marlene Dietrich, Lillian Gish, the Gabor sisters, actors Charlie Chaplin and Kirk Douglas, and artist Salvador Dali have also followed the same path.[[citation-needed}} They traveled to Bucharest, where Dr. Aslan did her research with Gerovital H3. Once discovered by these celebrities, Gerovital itself has become famous and is now used in over twenty countries around the world for its renowned anti-aging properties.[citation needed]"
No treatment is going to make up for bad lifestyles.
Gerovital - Wikipedia
See Joan Collins through the ages.
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The quest for immortality has been around even longer… Here’s an instance from 200 BC
The first Emperor of China poisoned himself with a longevity treatment - Mercury.
The earliest recorded death by mercury is the Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huang (260-210 BC). According to legend, the cause of death most likely was mercury poisoning , due to his immortality treatments [4] . … Environmental contamination has exposed humans to various metal agents, including mercury.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6873685_The_short-lived_Chinese_emperors
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Beth
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The comments in that Joan article were chefs kiss!
Who wants to live forever? I certainly don’t. I just want to remain independent and drop dead when the time comes. Aside from that, my personal beliefs is that we live on in other lives.
Most people do not come back with previous memories but you can cultivate it. There are plenty of documentaries online about it.
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It’s better to live forever than to stay forever dead.
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I guess it is a matter of opinion 
all the best 
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Neo
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@adriank How long do you want to live?
Until I fall dead Preferably not to the point that I start suffering or incapacitated. There are limits to our body that we will not overcome even with current understanding.
I intend to live forever or die in the attempt. 
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Neo
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How long would you like to be healthy and vibrant?
jakexb
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Always the “wealthy people” meme
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I’ll be happy with 90 years
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Neo
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Ok, thx @adriank . Take a scenario where science, technology and medicine has advanced tremendously and your health and mental capacities are back those of what you had in say 30-40s and it is now your last day of being 89, do you not think that future you would like to live more than one day?
Under the circumstances above, not talking about if you are severely sick, dement, etc, but where you again have the health of your younger self.
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