Interleukins have important role in fighting off diseases. If you block them you’ll probably have to live in isolation just like those lab mice, otherwise you’d die of the common cold.
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Wait, you don’t suppose Elon Musk got the treatment and has been experiencing the side effects for some time now?
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They are bred to be more susceptible to cancer (and other things), so that we can test our medicines on them. Purpose built lab subjects.
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How can we ensure this kind of treatment is only available to the extremely wealthy?
“Our policy doesn’t cover that.”
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Lab mice are just weird. They age faster and die sooner than they should for mammals their size. Practically anything you do to them make them live longer.
Shorter version: Some grifter has a new scam.
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I am going to be that guy who says - do we need to extend lifespans by 25%? Who is actually asking for that? If people don’t eventually die we are left with a planet bursting at the seams, further accelerating environmental catastrophe and degrading the quality of life that most would experience.
We could probably increase average lifespans by more than 25% just by stopping the rich from hoarding food and shelter and forcing the rest of us to live with the consequences of their excess. We could end the systemically racist practices that stick pollution next to minorities and force them into hazardous occupations.
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Have you ever seen a stressed out jellyfish? No! They’ve got it figured out, just floating around where the current takes them.
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Their survivability data pools natural deaths and animals that were euthanized and doesn’t indicate how many there were of each. Thats a red flag for me. How could the reviewers not have insisted on data to show the control animals weren’t just euthanized earlier?
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Current affairs may be stressful?
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Ray Kurzweil for one intends to extend his lifespan indefinitely and has all kinds of wacky charts trying to convince himself and others that he’s on the cusp of doing it.
Personally I don’t think Kurzweil has much better odds in his quest for immortality than Gilgamesh did, but if that’s how he wants to spend his finite time on this planet then I guess that’s his decision to make.
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I know there are some tech bros and self-styled futurists pursuing this, but that is a miniscule percentage of the global population. Especially in the US, Canada and Europe we have a very fraught relationship with aging and death, in that we are so frightened of these things that we completely ignore actually living our lives (or at least ignore the low hanging fruit that would help extend the lives of the general population). It doesn’t help that people like Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis are busy trying to convince everyone that rapamycin and interleukin blockers are the way to go, and sell the dream that indefinite life is attainable for everyone. They seem to want our adulation for what they are doing, fuck that noise.
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