The tech centimillionaire, who is known for taking droves of wellness supplements, has backtracked on one of his special pills.
  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
    104·
    11 days ago

    This will not end well for him. He’s doing a bunch of experiments, all at once, with a sample size of one.

  • Norin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    801·
    11 days ago

    I’m honestly just deeply interested in this guy every time I hear about him.

    Not because I think he’s smart, on to something, or at all worthwhile though.

    It’s just…. Kind of morbidly entertaining to watch a man spend so much time and money to deal with an obvious and incredible fear of death.

    He’s going to die some day, and probably from one of these things he’s paying for to avoid dying. It’s Qin Shi Huang shit.

    And, ya know what? There are some truly wonderful and interesting works of philosophy dealing with his exact problem, but our boy is too much of a tech bro to even consider that someone may have found a way to deal with the fear of death a few thousand years ago.

    So, fuck it, burn that cash bud.

    • Famko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      46·
      11 days ago

      At least he’s using all of the anti aging treatments on himself like a lab rat. Only he will have to suffer if something goes terribly wrong. And maybe something does work and it’ll be actually useful to everyone else.

      • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        11 days ago

        This is the same guy that’s using his teenage son as a blood donor too though right? That’s the part I’m not okay with.

        • Famko@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          11 days ago

          Yeah that one was a bit fucked up, but at least he isn’t doing it anymore after finding out it does absolutely fuck all for him.

      • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
        251·
        11 days ago

        That’s where I’m at on this. The dude is a major dork for trying to de-age himself BUT, like you said, he’s the test subject! There’s a long and storied history of self-experimentation leading to discoveries.

        I probably don’t support how he made his wealth (haven’t looked into it) but I support his freedom to do what he wants with his body.

      • dumbass@leminal.spaceEnglish
        11·
        11 days ago

        Wouldn’t it be ironic if through his “research” he finds a working anti aging cream but it doesn’t work on him because of all the other shit he took, so he becomes the only one who ages.

        • Famko@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 days ago

          If only.

          I just hope that it wouldn’t be a treatment that would be only affordable to billionaires.

          We don’t need the aristocrats to live forever.

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    11 days ago

    I can’t wait to read “Longevity-Obsessed tech millionaire dies of natural causes at 72 years old.”

    • innermeerkat@jlai.luEnglish
      331·
      11 days ago

      You mean at 60 from a cancer with all the sketchy garbage his body had to assimilate?

      I remember him taking snake venom injections ffs

      • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
        20·
        11 days ago

        Still angry about how he basically gave himself pancreatic cancer by following an all fruit diet, then somehow managed to get a transplant before a bunch of way more deserving people. Only to die a few years later anyway.

      • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        11 days ago

        Now now, I’m not trying to be too cruel. Guy hasn’t done anything to upset me.

        I just know in my heart that he will die like the rest of us.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    35·
    11 days ago

    All that money, time and effort in order for a 46 year old to look somewhere in his mid 40s.

    • Pilferjinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      11 days ago

      Yeah, he looks his age. At least he’s relatively healthy, aside from experimenting with those boutique supplements/drugs. It sucks that he pulls in other people into his cult.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    11 days ago

    I would have so much more respect for this douche if he was doing all this in a legitimately scientific way with the purpose of benefiting humanity.

    But nope, he’s just deeply insecure about aging and is fine with burning money and experimenting on himself in order to feel better about it.

    • burghler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      152·
      11 days ago

      What’s wrong with that? He’s a millionaire who’s experimenting on himself and reporting his findings? Definitely extreme but what value is there in hating the guy?

      Let him be insecure and cope how he wants, he’s small fry compared to the billionaire problem at hand

  • hmonkey@lemy.lolEnglish
    25·
    11 days ago

    He should try just getting a blood boy like Gavin Belson did in Silicon Valley

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    261·
    11 days ago

    This dude takes a ton of pills a day and uses his son’s blood, but still looks older than some Asians several years older than him.

  • RattlerSix@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    11 days ago

    It was kind of funny until he used his son’s blood and “more recently, used “shock treatments” on his genitals in an apparent effort to reverse age his penis”

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comEnglish
    121·
    11 days ago

    I hope that guy comes to terms with his mortality. I struggle with aging with every creature around me and myself.

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      11 days ago

      I don’t struggle with it at all, it happens all by itself without need of intervention

    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
      71·
      11 days ago

      I look forward to it (my own mortality) being a nice surprise.

      Hopefully a very long time from now.

      I’m the meantime, anyone want to buy my book on immortality? It has worked perfectly… So far.