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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Taking that many pills alone is enough to sap my will to live!
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".