I was reading an article this morning about a bloke who is setting out to live longer. His plan involves eating better, having a strict workout regime, monitoring the performance of his vital organs and so on. I wonder if it's worth it. His breakfast, for example, was a 'murky concoction involving olive oil, cocoa flavanols and something derived from algae,' For lunch, he might have a 'blended green slurry of lentils, broccoli and mushrooms.'
The article asks, who wants to live forever? Not me, certainly, and a poll in Britain revealed that only a third want to live to 100. The older the respondent was, the less enthusiastic they were about getting very much older. Of course, those of us of a certain age can see old age up close and it's not attractive.
Maybe Americans are different because there is a huge amount of money in the US being poured into companies working on extending human lifespan. There are books being written about it, like The Bulletproof Plan to Age Backwards and Maybe Even Live Longer. With a catchy title like that, it's sure to be a bestseller. The author plans to live to be 180. Good luck with that!
One school of thought is that we might be able to engineer our way to longer life with replacement bits and pieces designed to keep us going. Where will it all end?
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