Comments on: Stay cool and live longer?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:08:30 +0000

I was not aware that nematodes (or any common ancestors we might share with them) hibernated.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:01:10 +0000

Wonder why you can get the excellent books by Kurzweil in thrift shops, but not for free on the web.

By: John Grant

John Grant — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:11:19 +0000

Synchronisity? I walked into a thrift shop today and was browsing through old books.I discovered three books there by Ray Kurzweil,singularity being one of them.I did not buy them but found them very interesting.Now just this afternoon I discover he is the featured guest on Coast to Coast tonight.I had never heard of him before and now twice in one day.I think there might be something to this.I will definately be listening tonight.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 03:32:03 +0000

I would rather live longer starving and shivering. I would rather recieve the worst of all possible tortures than die.
Death is the darkest of all possibilities. Why die if you can avoid it?

By: XLife

XLife — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 02:32:25 +0000

Starving and shivering just to live longer… 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 100s isn’t all that appealing. Now if my body can be returned to 25-35yr range and then I could live longer (while remaining 25-35) it may be more appealing to me.

By: Dirk Bruere

Dirk Bruere — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:26:22 +0000

Well, shivering and starving can certainly make your life seem MUCH longer

By: seeker

seeker — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:40:39 +0000

mayby it’s some residual effect from genes involved with hibernation in other species ?

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:55:56 +0000

“… we should participate (at least those who have spare time) in the “BioPunk”…”
Should be “… we should participate In Radical Movements like the “BioPunk”…”

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:32:57 +0000

Just like all other Transhumanist actions, we should participate (at least those who have spare time) in the “BioPunk” movement, perform Bio-Experiments from a Home-Lab.
Futurists/Transhumanists are always radical. It is the Radical People who will survive the Singularity and Control the Universe.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:29:26 +0000

It is sad that many people rely on Academia/Government/Pharma company etc to tell them What/when to eat.
“Self-Reliance” is a Most Important Virtue of Transhumanists.

I personally am not a expert on nutrition and drugs, but I know Golden Rules: “To Lengthen Thy Life, Lessen Thy Food” and “Maximize your Waking/Lucid Hours, So that You Can Learn And Be Useful (and Avoid Accidents happening when you sleep)”

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:24:38 +0000

” … a low-stress lifestyle.” Not for modern, working Japanese people.

By: Dr. Richard

Dr. Richard — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:27:05 +0000

I was thinking the same thing….here come the wasabi pills!! Just when people got used to putting curry on their food without gagging, to help their brains.

By: Dr. Richard

Dr. Richard — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:24:48 +0000

Every time someone brings up a number, people start bragging…”My temp is only 26 degrees, and I look really young too!” Why do people think that is going to be written in the Akashic records and all will bow down ?? scientists can turn right around tomorrow and find some worm that lives in volcanic vents with a body temp of 110 F, that lives for 200 years. Then we will hear people comming on here saying they have a hot set of guts. Mothers out there are failing to give complements, these poor babies want to be noticed. This temperature thing is just a matter of adaptation, like everything else with cells.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:03:43 +0000

So not only can we starve ourselves, we also can choose to shiver to have a slightly increased probability to stay in the game a little longer.

By: Bri

Bri — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:11:59 +0000

Let’s see. Red wine, green tea and wasabi. That should add about sixty years to my life. Although I like all of these I think I’ll wait till they learn how to reset the genetic clock. L don’t know about this cooling thing. An Eskimo igloo gets to about forty degrees inside. I don’t think it’s done them much good. The body wants to regulate the core temp for some good reason. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be cooler than what’s natural now. Unless they can make me not feel the cold. I’d love to know how they got thOSS mice cooler! I’m getting some nasty visual images. Interesting research though. I guess we will be seeing wasabi pills in vitamin stores soon.

By: Aaron Wright

Aaron Wright — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:29:13 +0000

I don’t think the long life span of Japanese people can be completeley explained by wasabi. Based on this reasearch, it might play some role, but Japanese also drink a lot of green tea, eat a lot of uncooked vegetables, and life a low-stress lifestyle.

By: hakan1997

hakan1997 — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:25:04 +0000

Fascinating stuff. Would this explain the relative abundance of old japanese citizens?
Eat more wasabi…

By: beatriz valdes

beatriz valdes — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:45:27 +0000

What about having a lower body temperature all the time? That´s my case. I always mark 36 on the thermometer, while 37 is supposed to be the normal temperature. I do happen to look -really- much younger, Might that be helping?

By: melajara

melajara — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:35:18 +0000

Indeed, I rested on the assumption that this correlation could be just a general application of van ‘t Hoff equation relating chemical reactions equilibrium with temperature. Cooling down is slowing down every chemical reaction, obviously this has a sparing effect at the macroscopic level, i.e. organs and organisms.
But wait, active mechanisms have also a sparing effect, just take hibernation as an example. Fine tuning hibernation could be an interim solution before finding the ultimate cryoprotectant for safe cryonics.