Is There Any Evidence for Certain Supplements?

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Raker's wiles formula may be ten years ago now, so i don't know how up dated that is to day. Tha, lot of it has just been cherry picked. The people in the immortis crowd that really big up these supplements, eh, they're the ones selling the supplements,. So it's in their interests for themto big up the next big supplement. Andit's not to say that none work. Obviously some of them might work, but there's just no proof that they do work.

Shermer and Ward discuss: religious immortality • Church of Perpetual Life in Florida • what it means to live forever • why lives have doubled in length the past century • Stein’s Law: things that can’t go on forever won’t • Why do we age and die? • how to live to 100, 1000, 10,000 years • escape velocity to reach immortality • Aubrey de Grey’s program • tech billionaires programs • transhumanists/extropians • diet, exercise, supplements, stem cells, telomeres, and other aging hacks • Ray Kurzweil • cryonics • nanotechnology • brain preservation • mind uploading and digital immortality • Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory

Peter Ward is a British business and technology reporter whose reporting has taken him across the globe. Reporting from Dubai, he covered the energy sector in the Middle East before earning a degree in business journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His writing has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Economist, GQ, BBC Science Focus, and Newsweek.