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The key revolves around stem cells found within muscles. During exercise or injury, these stem cells become activated and work fervently by dividing and multiplying into new muscle fibers that help to repair the muscle. When they are no longer need, they retreat into a reservoir within the muscle and lay dormant until they are needed again.
The problem with aging muscles is that these ‘fixer’ stem cells don’t remain dormant when they’re not needed. Instead, they become activated more and more and unnecessarily divide and multiply – causing them to die at a faster rate. Since muscles
Originally posted by stirling
These fixer upper cells could be transplanted from adult corpses could they?
next thing you know there will be a black market for them....and theyll be injecting them in everything from boobs to arseholes
Originally posted by Blackmarketeer
Not grasping something here - how do some people work out and look great well into their advanced years, if, as the article states, we only have a 'finite number' of these muscle stem cells? Jack LaLane worked out daily and looked great well into his 90's. I even made a post here a couple months ago about a black female bodybuilder who looked fantastic at age 70.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by moniesisfun
I just hit 22 today, and I still see no practical use for reverse aging as an immortality-based practice, and I see no legitimate reasons to indefinitely prolong the life of any human being.
The only possible rationalization is that they make the perfect leader, and I don't see how any leader would be willing to spend 500,000 years watching the rise and fall of a dozen different empires beneath their guiding hand. If anything, I should think that in itself would be more exhausting than simply leading a natural life - say, 80 years?
There is a certain merit to being able to die. After all, when you have forever, how do you fill that time? How do you deal with the crushing agony of watching everything you love fall apart despite everything you may do to maintain it - again, and again, and again, and again? Perhaps the psychological proessures would inevitably lead to the Darth Vader mindset, where you want to destroy everything because you're detest the act of life being born only to die.
And because you see the virtue of death, and begin to believe that life is actually evil in and of itself, because only in life do we experience pain and betrayal, deception and loss, everything we despise. And in death: nothing. No pain, no sorrow, no joy, no happiness, purely nonexistence. And when you live a thousand lifetimes filled with the same agonies and frustrations, life no longer holds the same meaning. It no longer holds the same appeal. Only when you see it through new eyes and no memory of what came before, when it's new all over again, does life hold the same meaning throughout the eons.
And that's why death is a blessing. ...Strange, isn't it? So many are over the hill and around the bend before they realize this, and I've got so many years ahead of me and I've already made peace with the End. It's saddening and uplifting at the same time.
I hope that all made sense to you guys. If not, you'll make sense of it eventually. It takes time, after all - but as with all things, you must be open to truths you may not be comfortable with. And if ever I am faced with a vote of whether to legalize immortality or not...
You can bet your bottom dollar I'll hit the "NO!" button.
Kid, history goes out the window as a marker for the future with this game changer. "human nature" as we currently know it will be non-existent.
I have no clue what you're talking about here. You can die whenever you want. Just like you can live a long time if you like. You're that attached to "things" Not my deal. Darth Vader? Really?? Yea, expanding our lifespan will lead to inevitable doom....oookay.
It sounds like YOU have issues. I don't think time has any relevance to your issues.
Well, suicide is certainly an option. Good luck!
I guess you have serious ego issues. "you'll make sense of it eventually". How condescending! How about: I see the pathetic reasoning you present, and choose not to take in the foolish beliefs. Done.
Awesome. I win!
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by moniesisfun
Kid, history goes out the window as a marker for the future with this game changer. "human nature" as we currently know it will be non-existent.
That's Mr. Kid to you, although I do have a username if you decide you want to address me respectfully.
As for the human nature part - oh, I can believe it. For example, I should hope things will change when our lives are extended to the point that we can digitally memorize the last tree falling and the last smog-spewing factory put into operation, and we realize the hard way that we can't eat money - and that money doesn't buy everything, and immortality eventually takes the fun out of living. The reason I mention money is that when you have all the cash in the world, buying stuff gets old because the lack of challenge inherently decreases the glow of achievement.
Same principle applies immortality.
It's not money that is the problem, it's greed. Your principal is inapplicable. Again, the option exists to live a very long time. You can still jump off a cliff and end it, or get euthanized, or a wide variety of other options if you choose or are unfortunate.
As for the rest of your mindless assumptions, I'm just going to leave them be and enjoy my day.
Hope you get your issues worked out.
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by moniesisfun
It's not money that is the problem, it's greed. Your principal is inapplicable. Again, the option exists to live a very long time. You can still jump off a cliff and end it, or get euthanized, or a wide variety of other options if you choose or are unfortunate.
And you think giving yourself more life than allotted by our Creator isn't greedy?
I have less and less faith in the salvation of our species...