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Old 07-01-2013   #4
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Not going to happen in my opinion. Not for a LONG time, anyway. And especially not unless the thousand year old subject is forced to live their entire life within laboratory settings which is beyond unethical. Can you imagine living a thousand years inside a box? You wouldn't last a week haha. You can't step outside a perfectly controlled room without the immediate effects of nature wearing your body down. Everywhere you go you subject yourself to pathogens and mutagenic agents. Fun fact: fluorescent light bulbs that you see in most households are enough to cause cancers, they're just much slower in regards to other light, such as the UV rays in sunlight.

This rather poorly written article essentially regurgitates everything we as humans already know. 'Eat healthy, stay fit; live long'. Even the nonsense about the jellyfish has long been known by humans. And even though the article makes it sound as if we are very close to being able to 'reset' our cells/body to become young again, we are in fact, very far away. There is so much work that still needs to be done. Can you imagine resetting every cell in our body at once? Can you imagine what would happen if we reset one part of the body, without resetting the other? Or what would happen if we reset something and the whole thing went wrong? Not to mention that 'resetting' isn't that simple of a task for a cell. The only reason we see it in jellyfish is because they're Cnidarians. They're simple organisms. They only have two true tissue layers, whilst we have three. We are so much more complicated than a jellyfish; you're essentially comparing how to add and subtract two digit numbers, to quantum physics.

Well anyway, that was my 2-cents. I won't rant any longer about this article unless you want me to haha. I'm curious where it came from though. If there's one thing university has taught me, it's be wary of where you collect your sources from.
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