...It's likely that our hope lies mostly in CRISPR technology advances, not so much in NAD+ boostin, AGE breaking or the clearance of what few senescent cells have built up in these earlier years.
I agree with this, in part, I suppose. Genetic engineering certainly shows promise; but it has shown promise for decades. Listening to the high-flying language of George Church, for example, we wonder how many more decades it'll take to untangle the many drivers of aging in humans, and then attempt to manipulate them. More time, more money, more controversy, ethics, more academic and industry drama...
SENS shows promise: "...repair, replace, render harmless..." the many malfunctioning body processes and parts that fuck us up.
Remember that none of these researchers are claiming any of this age reversal gig is a sure thing -- it'll require decades and huge sums of money, it'll need wide popular and political support. But even with full support from many directions, the obvious often-repeated fact remains that broken human parts are hard to repair, replace and render harmless. Maybe we were all just born too soon to see it happen. At least we have fora where we can come whine about all the great biostuff we may imagine that'll make us all happy. Or maybe posting here in darkness is unhealthy since it's so frustrating that we have nothing?
I'm a single guy in his 40's which sucks, since age has a bit of an impact on your options when dating. It's a vain world that calls for youth, attractiveness and virility and we're losing both by this age due to...
Well, luckily you don't have to date the entire world -- a vain world, you say, that calls for youth, attractiveness and virility. You just need to date that one cute person for a while, see how that goes, maybe it'll be great, maybe not. She should love you because you're Nate, though, not because you're 30 Seconds To Mars ageless awesome-meh-handsome dude, you're who you are, including all of your strengths and weaknesses.
But even so, I struggle with why it's so damned important to find that perfect mate with my perfect ageless body anyway? To breed? Do imagine some perfect suburban picket fence with my beautiful, smart wife and our equally lovely children? Our golden retreiver we walk the streets to show the world how amazing our lives are. Is that why? Do you seek to perfect yourself by reversing your aging in order to become yet another person raising yet more offspring in this (simulated) world?
I don't care so much about attracting another mate. Been there done that. What I'd like is to repair my body's human defects to give super human attributes -- longevity and strength and power and resilience against space radiation and anti-gravity. Get off this planet. Get out into the dark universe to explore and settle other places, as if I'm one crew member aboard a ship flying through space.
Born too early, boo hoo
So this thread is about these primary hallmarks and what we can maybe do about it now.
What are your thoughts?
My thought is that since there is nothing, practice doing nothing.
Doing nothing sucks though. I want something. But there is nothing. Face the facts. So it gets all frustrating and emotional and pissy, and here we are: desperately swallowing pills or whatever.
So far, boring ole CR and exercise are all we have for what you appear to seek. So I'm working on those behaviors while awaiting these lab miracles that may or may not even become widely available to the 99% during our pathetic little lives. We're stuck on a beautiful blue planet, we gaze up at the stars, we wonder like many other humans seem to do: what's out there, and how do we go?