Biohacking and the Quest to Live to 180

We have all thought about what it feels like to become immortal or at least, to live to be over 100 years old. Though the thing about being human is that we age and decay so even if we do live until the ripe old age of 100, we won't necessarily be able to enjoy life.

However, there is one man who longs to live beyond 100 and he is doing everything he can to achieve that: Dave Asprey.

As he’s fond of saying, he has no interest in being average. Asprey, who is 45, has made the widely publicized claim that he expects to live to 180. To that end, he plans to get his own stem cells injected into him every six months, take 100 supplements a day, follow a strict diet, bathe in infrared light, hang out in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, and wear goofy yellow-lensed glasses every time he gets on an airplane.
Currently, Asprey is best known as the founder of Bulletproof Coffee; he’s the reason everyone started slipping a pat of butter into their coffee a few years back. At least one of the Kardashians is a fan, and Jimmy Fallon has extolled the virtues of the high-fat beverage on The Tonight Show: “It’s the most delicious thing ever. But it’s actually good for you. It’s good for your brain.”

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I've known people who had medical conditions catch up to them at any age from teens to 70s, although it definitely gets worse with age. I also know many coworkers well into their 70s, and a few into the 80s, doing the exact same work they did decades ago with way more than enough money than they would need to retire at any point. I've seen friends and relatives start to go senile from 50s-70s, while I have and had relatives be active physically and mentally into their 90s, happily helping the family.

A lot of people reach the point that feels like they lived too long, although it is rather difficult to predict when that will come, especially as some quality of life improvements are being made in medicine. Although if you reach that point in your 30s and don't have an obvious physical condition making you tired all the time, it could be more of along the lines of lifestyle and/or depression (or some common but less obvious physical issues) instead of age. That stuff can change, while getting older can't.
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In her final years my grandmother, who lived to 95, told me time and again "I'm ready to go!" (Once she scared the personnel at the assisted living facility because they thought she was suicidal!)
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All these pseudo-intellectuals talking about people living longer and uploading your consciousness into the cloud..
Have you ever been around someone older than 50? I turn 39 next month and I feel like i'm tired of just about everyone and everything at this point. And when I wake up, everything hurts (I've been working physical jobs since i was about 14). The idea that any one person will not only want to live that much longer - but also science will miraculously be able to keep blood/bones/skin/organs perfectly healthy to live a happy life - is pure sociopathy. Not to mention they won't be able to work, so they'll be a drain on everyone and everything around them. I know people in their 70s who work at one of my jobs. Great people - lots of wisdom. But if you look deep into their eyes, you get this look like "I've lived a long, good life and I'm kinda over everything".
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