OT: Posting in response to Phil's, but as a stand alone post..
Let me qualify whatever follows as "just my opinion" although I do have a degree, blah, blah...
First of all-you have a very interesting observation regarding hair changing color from gray back to brown and overall feeling fresher/younger.
It seems that, according to what you wrote before, you had high A1C and now you have normal or close to normal A1c.
This, together with perhaps exercising and changes in diet caused some physiological changes which may be quite unique (as you feels so much better at 69 vs 55).
And here is something interesting:
Scientists are learning how to reverse aging-I kid you not.
Yamanaka factors are four genes that, when applied/expressed constantly, are able to revert cells to their young /primordial/totipotent state (like Benjamin Button transformation on a cellular level).
However, when you express all four constantly, mice get cancers-no surprise there.
Recently, in a very seminal and ongoing work, some clever scientists applied three or all four factors in a pulse-like fashion, instead. Google "Pulse of Yamanaka factors and aging".
The results were incredible: mice literally rejuvenated (including changing grey hair to brown/aguti) so much that techs working in the lab thought that the animals had been replaced.
Some calculation showed that mice got at least doubling or more of the expected "remaining" average life.
There are several well capitalized startups working on this (
https://wewillcure.com/insights/company-profiles/anti-aging-and-longevity-startups-to-watch) and they hired the best in academia, paying them 5-10X of the "academic" salary. Altos labs (Bezos is a key investor) and Calico labs (funded by Google) are the best capitalized, Retro labs was invested in by Sam Altman.
My prediction:
1. Some or a few of those startups would have some aging treatment in 5-10 years-no betting, though.
2. It would NOT be called aging treatment because FDA does not consider aging to be a disease. Instead, it would be advertised as something else, but the word of the mouth would say: yeah, it is an aging treatment at the core.
3. Watch for the tell signs-info about Altos/Calico and/or a simple sign: a color of Jeff Bezos' beard-now completely silvery, but when it turns a darker color-it would mean that they've got something working and "sampling" it from the top.
4. I expect the price per treatment to be at least $1 mil without insurance-to limit exposure, initially.
5. Imagine what would happen if the "rumor" would have it as "working". We have 50-60 milllion millionaires, each one of whom would cry: take my $ 1 million, please!
50milX1mil=50 tril TAM at the minimum. Those would be the BIGGEST companies by far, at least initially, until it becomes more wildly available/cheaper.
A take home message: try not to die in the next 10 years.
A side note: perhaps Phil should have a checkup to see what is actually his 'phenotypic' age (Phenoage-AgelessRX or Generation lab-no connection to either).
My bet is that it would be lower to much lower than 69.
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