4 ms·

> I think most people are critical of him because he's richer and/or fitter than they are > hey're missing out: his self-experimentation is fascinating. Sorry

• strken 3y ago
  This specific case seems like there's not a strong enough need and too high a potential for coercion, but would you really complain about how my father was "HARVESTING HIS OWN SON" if his kidneys failed and I donated one of mine? Anyway, the blood plasma stuff isn't the only thing that's fascinating, everything else is too. Go read his website. It's unhinged: as noted by you, he harvests his son for himself, and himself for his father; he writes shit like "My mind is demoted, Self is elevated"; he pays $11/serve for what's basically broccoli, cauliflower, and lentils; he pays for pretty much every single measurement it's possible to take. It's interesting: all the hard-to-fake biomarkers for performance look good, from heart rate to VO2 to bench; he was having so much blood drawn that he got an ultrasound of his veins to see what damage he'd done; he posts gifs of a capsule camera going down his gastrointestinal tract. He's an insane person who posts his life on the internet and I find him fascinating. The HARVESTING of HIS OWN SON is really, genuinely interesting, and it doesn't stop being interesting just because it's weird and unlikely to do much.