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When I look into my biohacker bubble, the answer might be: enough sleep, regular workout routine with HIIT, healthy whole foods, no alcohol, socializing
by ulf-77723 1y ago
When I look into my biohacker bubble, the answer might be: enough sleep, regular workout routine with HIIT, healthy whole foods, no alcohol, socializing
- ukuina 1y agoAt what age?
- andsoitis 1y agoThese should be lifelong behaviors
- admissionsguy 1y agoand yet none of that makes even a dent
- bboygravity 1y agoIt does. Look up Brian Johnson
- BennyH26 1y agoBryan Johnson. Brian Johnson is the “Liver King”
- 4gotunameagain 1y agoBoth dudes are equally cringe.
- dzhiurgis 1y agoYou should actually watch Bryan's videos, he's pretty funny and down to earth techie. Are his therapies are over the top and lacking a bit of experimental rigor? Probably. Does he look healthy af? Definitely.
- 4gotunameagain 1y agoI actually have. Dude did a "family blood transfusion" with his dad and son. Ew gtfo. And to me he doesn't look healthy af. His skin is good, sure.
- dzhiurgis 1y agoWell, some time ago eating potatoes was freaky too.
- 4gotunameagain 1y agoThis is the most idiotic argument I've ever encountered, bravo.
- dzhiurgis 1y agoYour argument was "ew" so there's that.
- RivieraKid 1y agoHe looks older than he actually is.
- moralestapia 1y agoHijacking this comment since there's no "messaging" on HN, lol. Check this thing out, just launched a couple days ago https://virtualcellchallenge.org/ https://virtualcellchallenge.org/
- RivieraKid 1y agoHah, I like this hack. I'll check it out, thanks. I've been exploring the current status of atom-level simulation of biological systems and it seems to be an even greater challenge than I expected. Apparently even MD is not as useful as I assumed because it doesn't model some important mechanisms such as bond formation and breaking.
- irjustin 1y agoFor you personally, maybe not, but statistically yes it does. There are populations that consistently outlive and the only other thing I would add is stress removal in the form of relatively simple life styles.
- TeMPOraL 1y agoAt some point you have to wonder about the costs. Denying yourself everything that's nice and pleasant, and exercising constant, total active control over yourself sure might prolong your life, but what's the point?
- bigfudge 1y agoThe thing is, drinking to excess, smoking, eating ‘badly’ just aren’t pleasures at all if you don’t do them all the time. It’s hard to take the perspective, but there is more to life!
- TeMPOraL 1y agoRight, but that's the other extreme. Then there's everything in the middle, and most of that, unfortunately, do not form a kind of "healthy lifestyle" that has a chance to confer longevity benefits. So when people say, "just have a good diet and exercise regularly and sleep long enough and such" - it's a bit of a lie, because to do enough of these things to matter, you might be required to sacrifice the very things you value in life the most. And I mean here both sacrifice the things you hold dear directly, or indirectly - which for us here is predominantly our careers and places of living. Exaggerating a little bit to underscore the point: I could likely add years to my QALY lifespan if I moved to countryside, picked up more manual labor that required me to move my whole body, and went hiking in between going to the gym -- but, the things I value are found in cities, the work I like is white-collar, I hate hiking, and I also have people I love to support and lifespan-friendly labor generally doesn't pay enough.
- CrossVR 1y agoUltimately as much as we love individual responsibility, the truth is only the lucky few have the ability to freely choose their lifestyle. For the rest of us we have to conform to the unhealthy lifestyle that society demands of us. To live a life that's even remotely healthy we have to dedicate a significant amount of the precious spare time we have just to undo some of that damage. I do not believe we are predisposed to adopt sedentary lifestyles. As kids most of us are very active, but we are taught to be sedentary. Both academically and professionally we are most rewarded for sedentary activities: doing extra coursework, building your resume. Is it any surprise we develop a sedentary lifestyle when such a lifestyle is most rewarded?
- lm28469 1y agoWhat are you talking about? Doing these things is the only way to increase your quality of life and healthy lifespan, no amount money nor medicine will make up for abusing your body for decades. These things are quite literally the leading causes of death and impairments in the west...
- oldpersonintx2 1y ago[dead]