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TheEncogitationer 11 months, 2 weeks ago.
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Reg,
Parents buy industrial-strength bleach tablets from their pastor because prayer does not work.
10 drops of unscented bleach per gallon preceded by filtering in sand and charcoal and followed by boiling is sufficient to make water potable, but it doesn’t do anything else. And you don’t need a pie-in-the-sky peddler to do that.
Knowing how to make water potable is much more pressing to many parts of the world and for First World Disaster Preparedness than giving money to religious con-men.
Oh, and I should add: Any amount of bleach more than 10 drops and any procedure less than filtering and boiling is dangerous. There are also commercial sterilizing and neutralizing tablets available and filtering devices like the LifeStraw, so using bleach, filtering, and boiling should be only when nothing else is available.
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This reply was modified 11 months, 2 weeks ago by TheEncogitationer. Reason: Addendum
Reg and Fellow Unbelievers,
A modern-day Sisyphus seeks the blueprint for immortality.
While Bryan Johnson and Kate Tolo both have young, buff, great bodies, I see several problems with Bryan Johnson’s approach to life extension and immortality.
One, an algorithm for life extension and immortality programmed by Johnson’s circle of Doctors is only as good as the information they have and provide (G.I.G.O. Law–“Garbage In, Garbage Out.”). And the algorithm still has to operate on The Law of Non-Contradiction.
I know this first-hand because I am presently getting contrary and possibly contradictory information from my Primary Care Provider and a Rheumatologist recommended by the Hospital.
The Rheumatologist wants to keep me on Prednisone and sounds way too enthusiastic about this dangerous drug and my Primary Care Provider is wanting me to wean off of it. The Rheumatologist also wants me to do an IVID regimen that involves 3 visits to the hospital in one month followed by one monthly visit for 6 to 12 months.
My weight has remained low, my blood sugar is in a safe range, my blood pressure hasn’t too high (when something medically-related doesn’t piss me off, of course,) and I feel stronger and better than ever. My Spidey-Sense tingles about the Rheumatologist’s prescription, so I am definitely getting a second opinion.
Speaking of second opinions, Bryan Johnson makes a mistake not allowing other Doctors outside of his circle to examine his work. They may have insights on how to do things better.
Bryan Johnson also may be selling himself short by not considering bio-hacking for optimalization.
I would think that a regimen for life extension and immortality would include making bodily systems resilient and self-maintaining, so that the pancreas is steel-plated and doesn’t treat a cookie as “an act of violence,” so that liver and brain cells regenerate even if you drink like a fish, so muscles and bones heal from damages that get deadlier with age, so the body does all the functions of sleep without all the down-time of sleep, and so libido, erections, and fertility if desired are entirely at will.
Bryan Johnson is right about bodies being different on their requirements, since I could not use the creatine in his diet. Excess creatine and ketone were what got me rhabdomyolysis and my last hospital visit.
One thing is for sure. This story can only end one of two ways: Either Bryan Johnson and Kate Tolo will live forever or they will die trying. Must wait and see…
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This reply was modified 11 months, 2 weeks ago by TheEncogitationer. Reason: Space and grammar
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