Human life span can be extended

Aging can be delayed, and life can be extended. This is the consensus we must reach before discussing this project. If there is no such consensus, or if you are not very interested in extending your life, then you don't have to spend time here; it can be said with certainty that at this stage, whether you live in the United States, China or any other country in the world, if you want to make some efforts to extend your life, first, you must spend time, and second, you must spend some money; medical insurance basically only covers illness, not life; if you see a doctor for illness, medical insurance will pay for it, but if you want to do anti-aging medical treatment, most insurance companies will not pay. Specifically in different countries, different levels of medical insurance may be a little different, which you need to understand clearly in advance.

In recent years, anti-aging research has progressed rapidly, and many exciting results have emerged. However, if you delve deeper, you will find that many good results are still on nematodes, flies, mice or monkeys. How to transfer these results from mice to humans seems to be a long way off. In addition to this problem, there are some projects that have been successful, but suddenly disappeared. You can't see any trace of them in newspapers, and it's even more difficult to implement these results. What's the reason? Money. Some research institutions really ran out of money. The project was halfway through and the funds could not be transferred. They could only watch the project stranded. It was effective for mice a year ago, and it was still effective for mice a year later. It is impossible to know whether it is effective for humans. Of course, there are other situations. The project was successful and the effect on humans was confirmed, but the research institution kept it in the refrigerator and refused to share it with others in order to wait for the most favorable time for commercialization. These are all management problems and corporate system problems. We can't change them by talking about it. However, everyone knows that the frozen products can't be turned into money. At most, they will be taken out and faced to the society later.

Human aging and life span involve many issues. Different observation angles and different measurement levels will lead to almost completely different conclusions. However, there is only one correct one; this makes the anti-aging project extremely complicated and difficult. Unless you have a well-trained doctor to help you, before you implement anti-aging actions, you must spend some time to supplement some basic medical knowledge about anti-aging, especially when you decide to use a certain drug for treatment, you must carefully understand the anti-aging mechanism, dosage, bioavailability, drug conflicts and side effects of this drug. Take rapamycin as an example. When it was tested on short-lived species such as nematodes, flies, and mice, it extended their lifespan to an exciting degree. The problem lies in its side effects. Since it is mainly used in conventional medicine to prevent organ transplant rejection in patients, it suppresses the control balance of immunity, which in turn leads to an increased susceptibility to infection in patients, and even the progression of lymphoma and other malignant tumors, including diabetes. As a result, despite the high calls for rapamycin to fight aging, it has not yet taken a bright step in human experiments. It is good to be more cautious, read more, and learn more about the progress in this area.

Aging is a complex life process with multiple levels, multiple structures and multiple effects. Before 2917, many research institutions kept their eyes on "aging", hoping that one day they could find methods and drugs to stop or reverse aging. Some institutions were so excited when they occasionally made some progress that they almost called for people to live to 600 or 800 years old; but in the end they found that their research did not shake aging, at most, or only in a single aspect, there was a little progress; due to this misplaced focus, many research institutions have never been able to take steps from zero. Since then, starting from the second half of 2017, most research institutions no longer focus on the general hat of "aging", but began to shift their focus to the specific symptoms of organ aging and the treatment of related diseases. It is precisely this shift that has led to many exciting results in anti-aging research and discovery since 2018. The dawn has once again ignited people's hope, and anti-aging has gradually emerged from chaos.

Delaying aging and prolonging life are different from the treatment of common diseases such as headaches and fever. Whether the treatment of headaches and colds is effective or not can be known in three or two days. If the disease is cured, it is effective; but whether the treatment of aging and prolonging life is really effective can only be known when you "die", that is, only when you know nothing can you "know"; this ridiculous "effective" judgment tells people that anti-aging treatment must be carefully decided, otherwise, your money may really be wasted.

Self-experimentation for anti-aging; under the current circumstances, personal forced behavior may involve moral ethics and even legal issues; different countries have completely different situations, and must be carefully weighed; especially in the purchase of experimental drugs, and the responsibility for possible adverse side effects of oral administration of self-purchased drugs without the consent of doctors; there must be room for smooth explanation. Don't let other unpleasantness appear before anti-aging.

Numerous experiments have proven that the supplements that humans have discovered to extend life span can actually extend the life span of mice. If their life span can be extended, then our life span can be extended. The reason here is simple and there is no need to think or argue. As long as you have the courage and conditions to go out, you will definitely gain something.

Self-implementation of anti-aging will use some prescription drugs, some of which are very expensive in the United States, costing hundreds of dollars, and ordinary wage earners may not be able to afford them. You can look for them elsewhere, some places are cheaper, but it takes a little effort. Of course, a better way is to find alternative approximations.

（This text was translated from Chinese to English using Google Translator. Special thanks.）