audreyh1
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Ha! I'll dance on your graves with my 120 year old diabetic body.
Fair enough!
Ha! I'll dance on your graves with my 120 year old diabetic body.
Bring on the long life drug. I've been waiting and saving money for it. Hopefully, it's not $750 a pill kind of drug. Spending that kind of money on a pill will kill me.
I think it'll be gangs of young people hijacking the shipments so that the old people will quit hanging around.I can see it now...gangs of old people robbing heroin addicts to get money for their Metformin.
I'm guessing more like $12K per year, and once you start you can't stop or all the benefit is lost.Bring on the long life drug. I've been waiting and saving money for it. Hopefully, it's not $750 a pill kind of drug. Spending that kind of money on a pill will kill me.
Sounds good - looked up metformin and found this under side effects:
Gastrointestinal
Very common (10% or more): Diarrhea (53.2%), nausea/vomiting (25.5%), flatulence (12.1%)
Already have the flatulence thing down. Do I really need more?
I think it'll be gangs of young people hijacking the shipments so that the old people will quit hanging around.
I'm guessing more like $12K per year, and once you start you can't stop or all the benefit is lost.
Bring on the long life drug. I've been waiting and saving money for it. Hopefully, it's not $750 a pill kind of drug. Spending that kind of money on a pill will kill me.
From the article in the link:
Scientists think the best candidate for an anti-ageing drug is metformin, the world's most widely used diabetes drug which costs just 10 cents a day.
I just watched a NatGeo documentary on this and other research into anti-aging drugs. The program talked much more about better quality of life prior to the grim reaper than extremely long lives. Currently the FDA will authorize a drug to treat a particular disease but have never authorized a drug to treat a spectrum of diseases which is what anti aging drugs aim to do. i.e. Improve and extend life by delaying the onset of diseases such as diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's etc.
If we get to the stage of much healthier lives prior to death instead of a steady decline in health then healthcare costs will actually go down. The program ended with the FDA approving clinical trials for metformin as an anti aging drug, as currently it cannot be used for anything other than diabetes.
Buying drugs that have been on the market and raising the price by 20X or more is not uncommon. Examples are Daraprim and Cycloserine. Pricing in the US drug market is based on value, not cost. How much would people pay for this drug?I was curious. An article from 2010 suggested cost of Metformin (which is a generic) should run about $18 a month, and lower if bought from a discount pharmacy.
Another article about the TAME clinical study from this summer: Anti-ageing pill pushed as bona fide drug : Nature News & Comment
Buying drugs that have been on the market and raising the price by 20X or more is not uncommon.
I wonder if they'll start digging tunnels from Canada under the border to send this stuff in when our local patriotic drug companies rev up to the true value - forget about smuggling low margin drugs like cocaine or heroin like they do from the other borderBuying drugs that have been on the market and raising the price by 20X or more is not uncommon. Examples are Daraprim and Cycloserine. Pricing in the US drug market is based on value, not cost. How much would people pay for this drug?
If something prolongs your life by keeping diseases at bay, then how would you die fast?
If the effect of the pill is to slow down the biological clock then you will live longer in good health, but when old age catches up with you, it seems reasonable to me that your lingering stage will also lengthen. In other words, if an average person now lives 70 years in good health then suffers a decline for 10 years till death, the new pill will let him have a good life for, say 90 years, but the decline will also be longer at 13 years. It still seems like more than fair trade, non?
Buying drugs that have been on the market and raising the price by 20X or more is not uncommon. Examples are Daraprim and Cycloserine. Pricing in the US drug market is based on value, not cost. How much would people pay for this drug?
My dad dropped dead with a AAA...
2 years ago we visited a 92 year old uncle of DW while we were in the UK, and he was still super fit, living in his own house, sharp as a tack and very active still in his local dance club. 9 months later he dropped dead with a AAA.
My first thought was to be happy I'm not a member of Triple A, then I realized you were actually referring to abdominal aortic aneurysm...
But I'm an old mouse that doesn't want to go back on the treadmill.For example they gave the drug to old mice who were poor performers running on a treadmill and other tests, and they quickly started performing as well as much younger mice.
But I'm an old mouse that doesn't want to go back on the treadmill.
They need to do a study to see if the these old mice were suddenly able to stay out all night drinking and not feel it the next day, play scratch golf, and chase the spouse mouse around the mouse house all day. Why don't our tax dollars go toward meaningful research?
We already have a miracle drug that would could increase our lifespan to 120: Want to live to 120? Exercise more, eat healthily and take statins, say panel of experts | Daily Mail Online
I hope the computer hosting my brain thoughts will have a better OS than those in use now.We are only a few decades from being able to download your entire brain pattern into a computer, so might as well just wait for that. Unlimited lifespan as long as you pay your power bill. Probably will eventually be able to reload into a lab grown brain/body but I don't see the point if enough sensory input is provided to the digital brain.