It’s not cardio that’s the issue. It’s the adrenal glands and loss of hormones. Doctors tend to ignore issues caused by hormones decreasing as you age. Helen Gurley Brown wrote about taking hormone supplements to look young. I truly dislike this notion that you can’t allow yourself to age.

If I had to guess at our glorious chemical future, I’d guess “ghetto tranqs.” Illegal drugs are already kinda the pacifier of the masses; when our inner cities go up in flames more regularly than they already do, the boys at Pfizer will get their shot at the problem. Something like how the hillbilles get their Oxy now — a “fibromyalgia” type deal. Slap a DSM 6 diagnosis on it — call it “urban disaffective disorder;” blame whitey and capitalism — make it “free” under Obamacare, and there you go.

The other question is: what will you do with all that extra time? it’s hard to find a place that will hire you if you are 50+. They can’t front load those years so that you can stay in your 20s longer. Your friends and family will still die off, leaving you with more years to be alone. I’ve never understood why living longer would be considered a bonus. Use the years you do have more effectively and deal with the idea that you aren’t immortal.

When I was in my teens, I was an avid consumer of SF: Heinlein, Asimov, van Vogt, E.E. “Doc” Smith and so many more. I couldn’t wait for the “future” where, it seemed, we would all live forever (unless we chose not to, or died through accident.) At that time I could not understand why scientists and doctors weren’t doing everything in their power to achieve immortality.Then as I grew older, and had a family- I began to understand that for every thing there is a time. My interest in living forever began to wane; I wanted a better life, not necessarily a longer one. I wanted repair of things broken/damaged, not an unending life.Now (by most reckoning) I am old. I don’t have the energy I once did, nor are my thoughts the same. I’m very fortunate in that I have no terrible diseases nor have I broken anything (yet!), though many folks I know (many much older than me) have to use all the artificial aids in order to survive. Now my desire is to live life to its fullest without wanting to climb mountains, or run marathons, or set a record in pole-vaulting; but a life without disease and with mental clarity, up to the end of my days, and hopefully without the walkers, tanks and paraphenalia that so many age-related illnesses require (but we are lucky to have them, past generations did not.)Then, if I get my druthers, I’ll pass away one night just like a light has been turned off, after I’ve said goodbye to all my family and friends.It just might be that I’ll get my wish, though I often think that Loki is in charge- if so, then all bets are off!

Predicting the future , I have hard enough time predicting the past.

of course there may be some things already available….and CHEAP….Like Metformin…..(sorry for copy and paste but I gotta run out…. hope doing so doesn’t overstep any guidelines)http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/12/worlds-first-anti-ageing-drug-could-see-humans-live-to-120/World’s first anti-ageing drug could see humans live to 120The world’s first anti-ageing drug will be tested on humans next year in trials which could see diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s consigned to distant memory.Scientists now believe that it is possible to actually stop people growing old as quickly and help them live in good health well into their 110s and 120s.Although it might seem like science fiction, researchers have already proven that the diabetes drug metformin extends the life of animals, and the Food and Drug Administration in the US has now given the go ahead for a trial to see if the same effects can be replicated in humans.“This would be the most important medical intervention in the modern era, an ability to slow ageing”Dr Jay Olshansky, University of Illinois ChicagoIf successful it will mean that a person in their 70s would be as biologically healthy as a 50 year old. It could usher in a new era of ‘geroscience’ where doctors would no longer fight individual conditions like cancer, diabetes and dementia, but instead treat the underlying mechanism – ageing.Scottish ageing expert Professor Gordon Lithgow of the Buck Institute for Research on Ageing in California, is one of the study advisors.“If you target an ageing process and you slow down ageing then you slow down all the diseases and pathology of ageing as well,” he said “That’s revolutionary. That’s never happened before.“I have been doing research into ageing for 25 years and the idea that we would be talking about a clinical trial in humans for an anti-ageing drug would have been though inconceivable.“But there is every reason to believe it’s possible. The future is taking the biology that we’ve now developed and applying it to humans. 20 years ago ageing was a biological mystery. Now we are starting to understand what is going on.”Growing older does not have to bring ill health and frailty Credit: AlamyAgeing is not an inevitable part of life because all cells contain a DNA blueprint which could keep a body functioning correctly forever. Some marine creatures do not age at all.However over our lifetime billions of cell divisions must occur to keep our bodies functioning correctly and the more times cells divide the more errors creep into the process. As cell problems grow, the body can no longer repaid damage. In the case of cancer, cells no longer have the ability to get rid of mutations, and tumours grow. In Alzheimer’s the brain stops clearing out sticky plaques, and dementia develops.Scientists think the best candidate for an anti-ageing drug is metformin, the world’s most widely used diabetes drug which costs just 10p a day. Metformin increases the number of oxygen molecules released into a cell, which appears to boost robustness and longevity.When Belgian researchers tested metformin on the tiny roundworm C.elegans the worms not only aged slower, but they also stayed healthier longer. They did not slow down or develop wrinkles. Mice treated withmetformin increased their lifespan by nearly 40 per cent and their bones were also stronger. Last year Cardiff University found that when patients with diabetes were given the drug metformin they in fact lived longer than others without the condition, even though they should have died eight years earlier on average.The new clinical trial called Targeting Aging with Metformin, or TAME, is scheduled to begin in the US next winter. Scientists from a range of institutions are currently raising funds and recruiting 3,000 70 to 80 year olds who have, or are risk of, cancer, heart disease and dementia. They are hoping to show that drug slows the ageing process and stops disease.Outlining the new study on the National Geographic documentary Breakthrough: The Age of Ageing, Dr Jay Olshansky, of the University of Illinois Chicago, said: “If we can slow ageing in humans, even by just a little bit it would be monumental. People could be older, and feel young.“Enough advancements in ageing science have been made to lead us to believe it’s plausible, it’s possible, it’s been done for other species and there is every reason to believe it could be done in us.“This would be the most important medical intervention in the modern era, an ability to slow ageing.”Metformin could hold the key to ageing wellA baby girl born today is now expected to life to an average age of 82.8 years and a boy to 78.8 years, according to the Office for National Statistics. But if the results seen in animals are reproduced in humans, lifespan could increase by nearly 50 per cent.Professor Lithgow believes that, in the future, young people may be given a type of ageing ‘vaccine’ to slow down ageing. He believes it could have a far bigger impact on extending population lifespan that finding a cure for cancer.“If we were to cure all cancers it would only raise life expectancy by around three years, because something else is coming behind the cancer, but if we could slow down the ageing process you could dramatically improve how long people can live,” he said.“We know that it is possible for handfuls of people to live to very old age and still be physically and socially active, so clearly they carry some kind of protection in their bodies. They are essentially not ageing as quickly. If we can harness that, then everyone can achieve those lifespans.”Yet scientists have faced an uphill battle to get trial approval because there are so many spurious claims of ‘anti-ageing’ technologies and therapies on the market.Stephanie Lederman, executive director of the American Federation for Aging Research in New York, who is also involved in the trial added: “The perception is that we are all looking for a fountain of youth.“We want to avoid that; what we’re trying to do is increase health span, not look for eternal life.”However if their trial performs as promised, experts say slowing ageing would be a ‘public health revolution.’Dr Robert Temple, deputy director of the FDA said: “Their hope is that a wide variety of age related problems, loss of muscle tone, dizziness, falls, dementia, loss of eyesight, all of those things.“That would be something never done before. If you really are doing something to alter ageing the population of interest is everybody. It surely would be revolutionary if they can bring it off.”Dr Simon Melov of the Buck Institute for Ageing Research added: “You’re talking about developing a therapy for a biological phenomenon which is universal and gives rise to all of these diseases. And if you’ve got a therapy for this thing, these diseases just go away.”Breakthrough: The Age of Ageing airs on Sunday 10pm on the National Geographic Channel.

Do you remember who first said ” if I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself ” ?

Go watch “2001 A Space Odyssey” now, and see what Arthur Clarke and the best minds from NASA thought the future would look like in 2001….. it’s also amazing how well the original 70mm holds up in a widescreen blu ray HD….

Hey! Don’t give Big Pharma and bright ideas, ok? Between them, gummint depts like the FDA, the wealge pwofession, and people self-medicating (hey, just one or two extra won’t hurt!”), what could go wrong?Not that I am a shining physical example myself, but people should just take better care of themselves, slow down and enjoy life a bit more. All the stuff about looks is mostly contrived by mass media anyway. Just look at Europeans with their reduced work weeks, lengthy vacations and socialist paradisio’s … don’t they all just look fabuloso at age 50 plus? Better than most of us, by their accounting anyway. he heGetting old, it’s just part of the gig. Deal with it.

There is good reason to expect a soln for gray hair. An article said our hair retains its natural color but is bleached by peroxide in the follicles as the hair grows out, and there is a chemical that can stop that. It is the same chemical now used to aid a skin condition where patches of very light or pink skin appear on people with very dark skin perhaps most often seen on some black people (don’t recall the name of the condition). I don’t recall the article predicting a time line.

Actually, some of the clothing outfits predicted in 1910 are tame compared to what we have now.

Lot of VC money flowing into start ups focused on nootropics. You can divide the market into physical and cognitive segments. Virtually everyone I see out in Silicon Valley is running some combo of bio hacks on the cognitive side.

For what it’s worth, old people use walkers either because their legs have quit working normally and/or because of balance problems. Not usually because of low energy.

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I got just a little gray in my hair too. It’s hard to see. It’s hidden by the white stuff. And there used to be a whole lot more of it.I think we’re entering a long period of technological stagnation. There comes a point in the refinement of technologies where the cost of incremental improvements becomes prohibitive. We are at that point with the internal combustion engine and materials. Electrical efficiency, motor and generators and such, are at the point where further improvements are straining the availability of the rare earths that are responsible for all the recent gains. Battery technology continues to improve but nothing seems to approach the efficiency of those based on lithium. The known reserves of lithium are small such that a ten fold increase in their use looks like a practical limit. A lot of the new technologies that are being hyped are just that, hype. An engineer, the guy who has to make it work, takes a look and says “rots a ruck with that one, Charlie”.In the medical field, costs are soaring. When the cost of extending someone’s life, in reasonable comfort, for a year approaches some multiple of the average annual income of the working population it becomes unsustainable.The potential of computers has seen the most hype of all. Ever since the seminal work of John McCarthy et. al. in the early 1960s enthusiasts were predicting the singularity, the fruition of an artificial intelligence in about 20 years. Guess what. The predictions 50 years later are still in about 20 years. Practical fusion power has always been about 25 years away.Anyway, that’s about all old Gloomy Gus has to say. Time for another beer.

Considering the pure sciences stalled out in the early 70’s I wouldn’t count on anything major coming down the pike, anytime soon…

There is good reason to expect a soln for gray hair. An article said our hair retains its natural color but is bleached by peroxide in the follicles as the hair grows out, and there is a chemical that can stop that. It is the same chemical now used to aid a skin condition where patches of very pink or white skin appear on people with very dark skin perhaps most often seen on some black people (don’t recall the name of the condition). I don’t recall the article predicting a time line.

If you Google “oldest person in history” you will find quite a few listed in Wiki that made it past the 100-year mark. The oldest on record is Jeanne Calment of France who made it to 122. But even those who made it to the 100-year mark weren’t exactly out playing tennis twice a week.If you go back to the Bible, you will find a number of people who were almost a thousand years old! Genesis records that Methuselah died at 969, Adam died at 930, and Seth died at 912. But we find later in Deuteronomy 34:7, Moses only made it to 120. After Moses, it seems the age cap was pretty well set.Whether or not modern chemistry can keep us going past 120-years is anyone guess. I think the real question is, when you look around at the world today, would you really want to?Proverbs 20:29 “The glory of the young is their strength; the gray hair of experience is the splendor of the old.”

— ‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.’