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To add some context, this is a relatively common form of gastritis impacting depending on location 3-5% of the population called Autoimmune Gastritis. Now his b

To add some context, this is a relatively common form of gastritis impacting depending on location 3-5% of the population called Autoimmune Gastritis. Now his biohacking might be related it might not, the issue with the guy is that he does too many interventions at the same time so it’s hard to really tell what’s going on. He also has a core belief of equating looking younger with his interventions working, to his defence he also runs more rigorous analysis on his body. Overall he isn’t the most interesting bio hacker out there, but he is the loudest.

Waterluvian 3mo ago
Whenever I look up diseases and it reports a statistic such as "3-5%" I often feel like either I must not be interpreting it correctly, or it is so region-biased as to not be useful for how I'm consuming the data. Because it's hard to reconcile that apparently in the ballpark of 1 in 20 people have this?
- Melatonic 3mo ago
  Lot of these are a spectrum. 3 to 5% might have a mild form that's aggravated by super spicy food or something but otherwise not very noticeable. And then maybe a percentage of those people have a more debilitating version ?
- somenameforme 3mo ago
  It seems extremely common as people age. Your body just starts to break down as we get older and this is one, amongst many, ways that this manifests. A quick search suggests it shows up in about 50% of people over 70. [1] [1] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11879357/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11879357/
  - Eddy_Viscosity2 3mo ago
    Is is a case that 1 in 20 people have this, or more like 1 in 20 will eventually get this?
    - somenameforme 3mo ago
      It's not going to just affect 70 year olds. It's going to be a gradual descent downward. So just making up some numbers perhaps it's 40% or whatever of 60 year olds, 30% of 50 year olds, and so on. And then aggregated out across the population it's going to be a relatively high number, especially as fertility issues drive the average age ever higher. Eep, just looked up the exact figure and yeah the median age is now just about 40. So if something affects 10% of people over 40 then it'd affect 5% of all people. So you can bring my made up numbers above way down, and still end up with 5%.
iLoveOncall 3mo ago
> He also has a core belief of equating looking younger with his interventions working And he looks pretty much exactly his age.
rtkwe 3mo ago
He's also one of the more bizarre publicly, with him using his son as a blood bag. Not unique but the publicity of it was a bit unusual.
Hoodedcrow 3mo ago
It's funny how I haven't even clicked on the article yet, but the title and this first comment IMMEDIATELY made it clear which guy this is about

Waterluvian 3mo ago

Whenever I look up diseases and it reports a statistic such as "3-5%" I often feel like either I must not be interpreting it correctly, or it is so region-biased as to not be useful for how I'm consuming the data. Because it's hard to reconcile that apparently in the ballpark of 1 in 20 people have this?

Melatonic 3mo ago
Lot of these are a spectrum. 3 to 5% might have a mild form that's aggravated by super spicy food or something but otherwise not very noticeable. And then maybe a percentage of those people have a more debilitating version ?
somenameforme 3mo ago
It seems extremely common as people age. Your body just starts to break down as we get older and this is one, amongst many, ways that this manifests. A quick search suggests it shows up in about 50% of people over 70. [1] [1] - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11879357/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11879357/
- Eddy_Viscosity2 3mo ago
  Is is a case that 1 in 20 people have this, or more like 1 in 20 will eventually get this?
  - somenameforme 3mo ago
    It's not going to just affect 70 year olds. It's going to be a gradual descent downward. So just making up some numbers perhaps it's 40% or whatever of 60 year olds, 30% of 50 year olds, and so on. And then aggregated out across the population it's going to be a relatively high number, especially as fertility issues drive the average age ever higher. Eep, just looked up the exact figure and yeah the median age is now just about 40. So if something affects 10% of people over 40 then it'd affect 5% of all people. So you can bring my made up numbers above way down, and still end up with 5%.

iLoveOncall 3mo ago

> He also has a core belief of equating looking younger with his interventions working And he looks pretty much exactly his age.

rtkwe 3mo ago

He's also one of the more bizarre publicly, with him using his son as a blood bag. Not unique but the publicity of it was a bit unusual.

Hoodedcrow 3mo ago

It's funny how I haven't even clicked on the article yet, but the title and this first comment IMMEDIATELY made it clear which guy this is about