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> Mitochondrial _inhibition_ is actually more correlated with longevity than the other way around. Longevity is overrated. The light that burns twice as brig
by catalogia 7y ago
> Mitochondrial _inhibition_ is actually more correlated with longevity than the other way around.
Longevity is overrated. The light that burns twice as bright lives half as long. I'd rather be a superhuman for 40 years than feeble for 120 years.
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y agoAs I understand it, longevity in the life-extension sense is generally taken to mean years of good health. Edit: fixed a word.
- goatinaboat 7y agoI'd rather be a superhuman for 40 years than feeble for 120 years. But that’s not a choice you can actually make, it’s out of your control. What if you could choose by taking a pill?
- rubber_duck 7y agoSteroids let you control this trade-off
- ci5er 7y agoMaybe yes, maybe no. But evolution didn't decide on the structure and behavior of our throw-away-cup bodies in order to make our puny minds sitting on top our puny brains happy. For better or for worse, in humans (we are not turtles, for example, they have their own success strategy), AVERAGE 2nd generation reproductive success is the measure of our existence. The collection of strategies to maximize that are different for human men and human women. But aligned. On average. 2nd-generation reproductive success is our "purpose" in a universe made mostly out of hydrogen. Nothing more - nothing less.
- NotSammyHagar 7y agoI'd rather be healthy for 120 years like I am now, yet could live with never being a superhuman.