I was listening to the radio about a year ago and they were doing a story on longevity, how to make your life longer. One thing they came up with was ‘spectacle’ or just being busy. The more new, creative, weird and fun things you do the more memories you make, the more memories you make the longer your sense of time is. That’s why so many people feel like we lost time in Covid, without doing new things and making new memories we can’t really judge that passage of time.
The second topic was more literal, investigating why we break down. All our lives we are constantly regenerating and replicating new cells as older cells die off. Following the photocopy rule, inevitably as our cells are replicating something will go wrong and a cell will be made ‘badly’. When that cell replicates it also replicates it’s flaws making more ‘bad’ cells, which will in turn create their own flaws that will eventually get replicated until we are more bad cells than good which can cause everything from your skin losing it’s healthy elasticity to kidney failure.
Bad cells are made by mutation and mutation is made by absorbing radiation and sunlight is literally radiation. Standing outside will bombard you with this radiation and speed up your ageing process. So what if you live in a cave, take vitamins and supplements? Nope, even the act of digestion is a chemical reaction so powerful it can cause similar side effects, not to mention the radiation in our food, water, and yes, the air.
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Surprise, air actually is poisonous.
I mean, it actually is.
Almost like oxidation
I’m not really appreciating the question. Which poison and and how would it take that long? Sounds like a bad movie
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
Oxidation directly is poisonous, sooo…
I’m glad others already knew this.
It is oxidation. Oxygen is bad
It is actually… Oxidation is a major cause of aging
life itself is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% fatality rate.
Well… if you stop breathing for long enough, you’ll never get sick again.
It is.
BRO
Look up “oxidation” and how it relates to the life cycle of cells and get back to me
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I’d be dead before the poison even actiavtes
“Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.”
It does. The oxygen in air very slowly oxidises your insides like rust on a car..
Put down the pipe.
You joke, but this is actually real. Oxygen causes a small amount of tissue damage over time, which is one of the elements of aging.
Then submarines wouldn’t work
You are actually correct. Oxygen is the molecule that keeps you alive but also the molecule that ages and kills you.
What if water is deadly but it takes about 80 years to kill you? I mean, 100% of people who drink water, DIE
I was listening to the radio about a year ago and they were doing a story on longevity, how to make your life longer. One thing they came up with was ‘spectacle’ or just being busy. The more new, creative, weird and fun things you do the more memories you make, the more memories you make the longer your sense of time is. That’s why so many people feel like we lost time in Covid, without doing new things and making new memories we can’t really judge that passage of time.
The second topic was more literal, investigating why we break down. All our lives we are constantly regenerating and replicating new cells as older cells die off. Following the photocopy rule, inevitably as our cells are replicating something will go wrong and a cell will be made ‘badly’. When that cell replicates it also replicates it’s flaws making more ‘bad’ cells, which will in turn create their own flaws that will eventually get replicated until we are more bad cells than good which can cause everything from your skin losing it’s healthy elasticity to kidney failure.
Bad cells are made by mutation and mutation is made by absorbing radiation and sunlight is literally radiation. Standing outside will bombard you with this radiation and speed up your ageing process. So what if you live in a cave, take vitamins and supplements? Nope, even the act of digestion is a chemical reaction so powerful it can cause similar side effects, not to mention the radiation in our food, water, and yes, the air.
Sorry I even stopped here
Whoa, mind-blown.
Nvm
They are already talking about immortal humans being born now
Imagine an eternity of living
Just endless… living
I wonder how the mind could cope or remember stuff even after a few centuries?
Switch to breathing pure nitrogen and you shouldn’t have to worry
What are all the other creatures dying of?
Blood contains iron – you rust.