JOAO PEDRO SAID: "...Perhaps not but I heard your sexual appetite suffers a
large decrease (often leading to impotence at very early ages). I think
that's a big price to pay for, presumably, a few more years..."
CYMM SAYS: Joao, lad, who have you been speaking with!!! This is what
happens when you pick up your life extension on the street!
DON'T CONFUSE CR WITH PROTEIN ENERGY MALNUTRITION...
PLEASE, PLEASE... I KNOW PEOPLE WHO DO THIS STUFF! IT'S NOT LIFE IN A
MONASTERY.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joao Pedro de Magalhaes <joao.magalhaes@fundp.ac.be>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: Thursday, June 29, 2000 9:08 AM
Subject: Re : A LIFE EXTENSION SUGGESTION TO THE GODS OF EXTROPY.COM
>Hi!
>
>>ZERO SAID: "....as for CR, well I'm too much the Epicurean to want to live
>>forever if it meant thousands of years of wheat germ and carrot juice...."
>>
>>CYMM SAYS: It doesn't work like that...you're stereotyping!
>
>Perhaps not but I heard your sexual appetite suffers a large decrease
(often
>leading to impotence at very early ages). I think that's a big price to pay
>for, presumably, a few more years.
>
>>ZERO SAID: "...But perhaps if the research were compelling enough to show
>>that one or another LE method was sufficiently likely to add a chunk of
>>years onto my life, I'd be interested in looking into it...
>>
>>CYMM SAYS: You need to familiarize your self with the research. It has
>>demonsrated those things. Across the taxonomic spectrum. Now, if you wait
>>for advanced stuff to be demonstated in humans... you have another 50
years
>>coming. Wait if you wish...
>
>As far as I know, apart from CR, all other LE therapies have hardly any
>evidences of substancially increasing lifespan.
>
>Best wishes.
>
>---
>Joao Pedro de Magalhaes
>
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