exploring life extension part 3 caloric restriction

an overview of the current status and goals of the transhumanism movement.
an interesting watch!
this part deals with caloric restiction to improve your health.

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[rendek]

@666norton420 Read, "How to Eat to Live" by Elijah Muhammad

[rendek]

@666norton420 LOL, you really don't understand, when you eat one meal every 24 hours, 48 or 72 what happens is you're digestive system and all the work your body uses including enzymes are not bieng used, so you appear young, you don't age, have gray hair your growth is stunted because of the calorie restricted diet. Food is what keeps you here and takes you away. There are people living on this earth that have been here since christopher colombus dicovered america, and during slavery.

[rendek]

@666norton420

it's really this simple, the longer you can abstain from eating, the longer you live, food ages us.

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

@666norton420

The fact that people form India, have higher reproductive rates than whites an other example of human evolution (change in allele frequencies over time).

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

@666norton420

You're right about the brains shrinking. But our brains have generally been increasing in size over evolutionary time, I just meant that it could also go the other way through evolution.

Technically, evolution is the change in allele frequencies in populations over time. You aren't going to find any biologist who will agree that this is not going on with modern humans.

[666norton420]

@sdrawkcabgnipytmi our brains shrinking isn't necessarily a bad thing, if that's what you were hinting at with the "not a one way" remark. it's about how efficient it is.

and while people pass on changes through their kids, they're not becoming prevalent in our population and i see no natural way they would be able to.

just passing on changing genes isn't evolving, it's just existing. ;)

i could technically be wrong, but i don't think so.

;d

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

@666norton420

There are numerous ways in which we're evolving that are not necessarily visible.

A reduction in brain size also counts as evolution (evolution doesn't move in one direction).

Evolution is the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations. This is still going on.

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

@666norton420

Mutations are not the primary diver of evolution. For example, up until very recently for first world countries, and still going on in many third world counties, many many people have died/are dying of disease. Differences in their immune systems were/are selected for. An example would be a selective pressure for Sickle Cell Anemia in malaria prone countries (it makes you resistant to malaria). This counts as evolution.

[666norton420]

@sdrawkcabgnipytmi yes, i understand how evolution works.

the only change biologists have noticed is a slight reduction in our brains sizes, due to domestication. that's it.

without any real pressures, we are not evolving. mutations may be occurring, but there is no way to increase their numbers.

we are stagnant.

also, genetic manipulation, while it would change us, would not be considered evolving in the biological sense.

;d

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

@666norton420

Actually that's not true at all. Evolution is based on differential reproduction, which is still going on. Natural selection doesn't kill the badly adapted, rather it rewards those that breed more.

That said, symbian7's argument is mute. We would continue to evolve by modifying ourselves.

What I don't understand is why there are so many opponents to the idea of living longer.