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How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years
HughPickens.com writes Bloomberg News reports that venture capitalist and paypal co-founder Peter Thiel has a plan to reach 120 years of age. His secret — taking human growth hormone (HGH) every day, a special Paleo diet, and a cure for cancer within ten years. "[HGH] helps maintain muscle mass, so you're much less likely to get bone injuries, arthritis," says Thiel. "There's always a worry that it increases your cancer risk but — I'm hopeful that we'll get cancer cured in the next decade." Human growth hormone also known as somatotropin or somatropin, is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals. Thiel says he also follows a Paleo diet, doesn't eat sugar, drinks red wine and runs regularly. The Paleolithic diet, also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a modern nutritional diet designed to emulate, insofar as possible using modern foods, the diet of wild plants and animals eaten by humans during the Paleolithic era. Thiel's Founders Fund is also investing in a number of biotechnology companies to extend human lifespans, including Stem CentRx Inc., which uses stem cell technology for cancer therapy. With the 70 plus years remaining him and inspired by "Atlas Shrugged," Thiel also plans to launch a floating sovereign nation in international waters, freeing him and like-minded thinkers to live by libertarian ideals with no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.
They'll dump it overboard and let the market incentivize cleanup.
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The paleo diet might end up being silly, but just once I'd like to see this discussion without the kneejerk "20-30 year life expectancy".
If you made it to 15 years of age or so in a hunter-gatherer society, you might reasonably expect to survive to 60. As an infant, you are highly likely to fall prey to disease or poor care, pushing the life expectancy at birth way down on average even though those deaths usually had nothing to do with the diet of a mature adult in the community. Adults didn't usually drop dead at 30 from poor nutrition.
You know what get's me about people who dream of building these Atlas-Shrugged inspired libertarian paradises? Such places already exist. They tend to be shit holes because that's what you get with no civic cooperation.
I've been to a few of them. Guatemala is, surprisingly, a true a libertarian paradise. There is, theoretically, a limited government, but in practice it does... nothing. Everybody has to provide for their own security, which leads to some interesting sights. Like AK-toting private guards at MacDonalds. I shit you not, this exists. People die pretty regularly when shoddy buildings collapse. It's not because Guatemalan engineers are too stupid to build sturdy buildings, it's just they don't have to... so why bother? Communities terrified by judicial impunity have banded together to form self-protection rings, and the result is regular lynchings. Clean water? forget it. Oh, and now flooding is an annual issue because there is no land management and the forests were all cut down (arg! evil environmentalism!).
He can build his floating libertarian paradise. It will suck, just like every other libertarian paradise. Then these dumbass Randians will simply forget it, and their new dream will be to build... A LIBERTARIAN PARADISE IN SPACE! Yeah, that'll work. A system of government that's been an abysmal failure everywhere it's been tried on earth will definitely work out IN SPACE!
Yes, the #1 killer of Paleolithic people over 30 was failing to outrun the velociraptors.
On the other hand, if I only had 6 months to live, the first thing I'd do is to get back together with my ex-wife.
That would be the longest 6 months ever.
Have gnu, will travel.