limits of lifespan

[Karl Anderson]

Brian Atkins <brian@posthuman.com> writes:

> P.S. You can also already increase your max lifespan through caloric
> restriction.

Yeah, by eating something like 50% of your usual intake.  With big
drawbacks, too.  The animals that this experiment is being tried on
all have personal trainers, effectively - I presume that malnutrition
is pretty close.  Would suck to have a doubled lifespan with
Korsakoff's syndrome.

I saw a guy actually trying this on the news or PBS or something.  He
was amazingly weak.  I doubt he could ride a bike.

Short answer, most of us could probably increase my lifespan more
easily by quitting smoking and drinking, getting PMA from a shrink,
and trading my IT profession for an active one.  Not as futuristic an
idea to sell, though.

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Karl Anderson      kra@monkey.org           http://www.monkey.org/~kra/