Demolocke’s Agenda Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)
In the article, see below link, it has come under discussion, and heated arguments, that we have a limit in the aging department. Duh (picture Homer Simpson slapping his forehead in a moment of stupidity), everyone knows that humans die at some point in their life spans, span as in born one year and die in, hopefully, a later year.
The moment a human is born they are subjected to any number and variety of stressors beginning with those imposed on them during pregnancy. Then there is the stressors of birth itself. Now, for our entire lives we are subjected to all sorts of stressors, both good and bad, that affect our bodies and minds and with the bad side all the stressors have effects on our age and our aging processes.
In a nutshell, I believe, most of those stressors are the one’s we allow to be bad but then again there are more that we have absolutely no control over such as those imposed from our environment both as to nature and to man-made.
How long we live also deals with genetics and DNA that can be extended, to a point, but often control many of our aging processes so that we have a small amount of control such as how we live, what we eat and consume and how well we work toward things like fitness and health.
Then I read the following:
Vijg’s opinion, “the real important thing is we need to put more money into drugs and interventions that really work against aging—no longer [just] against individual diseases.”
Here is where I kind of feel divided with both sides pulling me whichever way in any moment. First, I feel that drugs are beneficial in the right circumstances. Example being some drugs promote faster healing time and that means the body can take over and heel faster when if no drugs the healing process itself lengthened adds to the stress. Some drugs mean life over death so they get the beneficial mark as well.
Now, drugs for the sake of ego’s or other cosmetic, etc., types of improvements, etc., not so much because, to me, such things are artificial and although in the moment they provide what one thinks they want over time they to are stressors and detrimental to health, fitness and most of all - longevity.
In short, all this is complicated but the more natural way of health, fitness and longevity come from nature itself and the closer we can get to nature the longer our lives, natural lives. If our genes and all the stressors over the years means we die at a certain time and year - so be it and if we can naturally lengthen that - so be it and congrats to us.
Many are going to say, well then drugs and other artificial means are then ok because it has been reported they will lengthen our lives. But, I say, do they and will they? I say this because there is absolutely no proof any of it actually lengthens one’s life. There is no way to prove adequately or beyond any doubt both scientific and not that anything lengthens a life through artificial means.
As a layperson the only way I can conceive to prove it is to monitor a group of humans lives from birth to death without any artificial means or interference. Then, bring them all back to life, go back in time to when they were born to be reborn again and then expose them to the same exact things with artificial means such as drugs to see if they live longer. Add in the chaos theory because even under these circumstances things will not be exact.
What all this reminds me of is the compliance and influence disciplines where we tend to fool ourselves and fool others for self-soothing, feel good and ego building efforts to manipulate us into believing what we are predisposed to need beliefs explained through things like human bias, human dissonance and human belief-confirmation.
If I am dying and they tell me a drug or procedure will help me live, well, I am going to go for it because like all humans survival, along with procreation, is top on my list of things I wish and want and hope for in my life. If I can live just one moment longer, one minute longer, one day longer then I am all for it unless I feel, and can validate, the procedure, etc., would mean immediate death earlier than I believe my life could achieve.
Whoa, ain’t all that a mouthful!
Caveat: Yes, the source of this article is in question; yes, it needs to be fact checked and validated as far as humanly possible and all my mindless meanderings are subject to many, many things including my expertise, etc.
