There’s a better paper about it somewhere else. You can Google it and post your findings here. Or you can disregard it altogether and just do what you feel like.
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As you may have noticed from my posts: I don’t care much for “regular” guys.
Why? It is built in just like you have a favorite color. You can’t really explain why.
In my childhood and as an adult I have always liked risk-takers and adventurers.
Overly cautious people are anathema to me. My best friends in life have always been risk-takers and adventurers. The most successful people I have worked with were not cautious people.
So, I have nothing against Matt Kaeberlein personally, he just feels way too blah for my taste.
Yes, I would like much better to have a beer with the likes of John Hemming, Bryan Johnson, Elon Musk, Eric Weinstein, William Shatner, Joe Rogan, Andrew Huberman etc. Even Peter Attia is a bigger risk-taker than Matt Kaeberlien.
So, you see I can’t help it. IMO: It is wired in just like many genetic traits.
Members of the forum will know whether or not I would like to have a beer with them.
If you are an experimenter, risk-taker, or adventurer, if you test the boundaries, I would love to have a beer with you.
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@desertshores Got it! My admiration of Kaeberlein is in part based on my natural lack of caution and his amazing resistance to being sucked into stupid beliefs that are not well founded.
I have done many adventures and lived close to death too often (sometime poor decisions; sometimes bad luck). I climbed all 58 14ers (and 75 other peaks) in Colorado, the Matterhorn (Switzerland), Mt Blanc (France), Cotopoxi (Ecuador), Illimani and Huayna Potosi (Bolivia); I tree skied too fast with a smile on my face, I raced crits and on the velodrome with more bravery than sense (and visited the hospital after several times). Scuba dived to 100 feet in Cozumel with nitrogen narcosis. Went outside my house during Hurricane Andrew in Miami Florida (really stupid). Rappelled off a dead bush outside of Las Vegas to save leaving behind a $50 piece of gear (so so stupid).
I’d have a beer with both of you if I could. I’m in the Smokey Mountains.
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That is an impressive list of accomplishments!
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Thanks. Now I need to figure out how to keep adding to the list. That list is somewhat old.
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PBJ
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What risks did Shatner take besides taking on the Klingons?
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Well, I would say he took a risk by daring to fly on Jeff Bezos’s spaceship.
“Aged 90 years, 205 days, he became the oldest person to fly into space, surpassing Wally Funk, who had flown on Blue Origin’s first crewed spaceflight at the age of 82 in July 2021”
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He did a great cover of Pulp’s “common people” but that’s hardly a substitute.
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Great example. And his adventurous spirit and enthusiasm for life is on full display in this fantastic show.
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Same here. I would love to test it for curiosity’s sake, but it’s too costly to throw money at. This is specially considering that there is little value in taking one or two tests since even if you get a low epigenetic pace of aging, that mainly just gives you an ego boost or some confirmation that maybe what you’re doing is working pretty well. It doesn’t help you figure out what among the things you’re doing is causing that. To find causal effects you would need to test a lot more often.
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Beth
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I’ve jumped out a plane, does that give me street cred?
In my old age, I am much less adventurous… I’ve been known to say, ‘if I do that, I’ll fall and break a hip and will be dead within a year’ :), so I don’t think I’d impress you these days, but I could make you laugh, so there’s that!
I think I’d be compatible with Johnson!
The only other one on your list who I would enjoy is John Hemming!
I’d happily run my non-tesla over Musk, but that is a whole new thread 
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It is the cost at USD 400 that puts me off further tests. I spend a lot on testing, but getting a better result on the leaderboard is not a key priority. I expect to drop out of the top 100 by the end of the year.
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I am sitting in a gig drinking a beer at the moment. I will dedicate it to you.
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From your posts, I would say you have plenty of “cred” with me. You are more adventurous than most.
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ng0rge
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Socializing has a huge longevity benefit. I think neighborhood pubs/brewpubs that often function as gathering spots/community centers in small towns are great for longevity. Cafes in the morning and pubs at night.
Why your friends make you live longer
Music is good, too.
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Short benefits of the effects of taurine on T2D and CVD.
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Kaeberlein has been on the record for years as a critic of epigenetic aging clocks, and recently demonstrated their lack of accuracy or precision by sending off separate samples from the same blood draw to several different companies. The results: wildly different estimates of his biological age both within and across clocks. Granted that, entering the Rejuvenation Olympics is a bit like entering the coin-toss Olympics.
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