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[Ryan Collins]

...if you could stop any aspect of aging, what would it be?

 

Follow up:

 

What would this mean for you?

[sthira]

For me: depression. Although depression is not necessarily age-related since it grabbed ahold and hasn't let go since I was 14.

You reach a point in life, after decades of promises for cures that never materialize, when you wake up from sleep, face another morning, stand up to again the dim day, you hold that head up, and you think: oh, again. Here is the world again, and me, another day, all over again today it's time to face it again, just like yesterday, just like a decade ago.

And then you go through the motions of the day, holding it all up, or pushing it all down, or hiding -- the darkness-burden -- and so I wonder, earnestly, where is hope: because there are the pretty spring flowers, and migratory songbirds are singing loudly, the whales are moving in the depths, mysteriously, and I look up at beautiful clouds, those skies, the stars at night, and I see we're all so small and so full of hope.

Still, here I am with depression, and still, there they are, those journalists and researchers and scientists, see now again how they're promising cures and breakthroughs and game-changers and pivotal moments in the science of easing humanity's suffering.

I'd stop depression, and not just for me selfish me, but I'd stop depression from ever affecting anyone. No meaningless agony ever again. For anyone. No one deserves depression. No one deserves to suffer pointlessly of some stupid disease, and then die a wasted life.

What would effective cures (for depression) mean to me? Literally everything. I'd experience what it must feel like to live a day of life.

Edited by sthira, 12 April 2018 - 03:43 AM.

[Droplet]

That's sad Sthira and I hope too that science one day cures depression. I have friends who live with it and it is a horrible illness. I'm a female so apologies if I'm not welcome in this thread.

Edited by Droplet, 12 April 2018 - 06:37 AM.

[Griff]

Definitely topical and physical things for me such as sun damage and sun goddess skin. There is a lot of folks and especially caucasians with really bad dermis and skin damage from the sun. If you can solve this, you will pretty much gain overwhelming global support from the West and East asian countries for Longevity Science.

[Ryan Collins]

Griff:

 

Thanks so much for your response. As I am of a fairer complexion, this is a topic I am passionate about. I'm currently looking into iron chelation (a la user Dorian Gray's recommendations) to mitigate some of the problem. Seems this will be a lifelong pursuit, in any case!

 

sthira:

 

Since your post I've been searching desperately to find a clip from an interview I heard regarding treatment of depression. It involved a large dose of a specific supplement - one of the B vitamins I think. I'm sure you've tried nearly everything, but I'll keep searching.

[ceridwen]

Fairer people seem to age faster or is this my imagination?

[sthira]

sthira:

Since your post I've been searching desperately to find a clip from an interview I heard regarding treatment of depression. It involved a large dose of a specific supplement - one of the B vitamins I think. I'm sure you've tried nearly everything, but I'll keep searching.

Thank you, Ryan. I'll try megadosing some B vitamin. Meanwhile, according to recent comprehensive blood tests by my doctor during a routine checkup, I'm "healthier than just about all" of her thousands of patents. This is based on a 15-minute visit, some blood draws, and random questions, some offered medical jargon, and suggestions to see other specialists. But my B12 levels, despite long term calorie restricted vegan diet, are in the middle range of normal (thanks to B12 supplementation).

Depression (like hundreds and hundreds of other diseases) is currently without a cure for the majority of folks suffering from it. Cope and wait are our directives (similar to most other human diseases researchers can't solve, either). American medicine is broken. Maybe one day medical AI can solve basic questions that our rodent studies cannot.

[Granite Ghouls]

Skin-Aging

I can accept the fact that I get aged, but if I will be given to choosing what aspect of aging that I want to stop is the skin and muscle aging.

[YOLF]

Hahaha, I'd stop cellular aging. That should just about cover everything, right?

 

For those concerned with sun damage, look into such things as polypodium and anthocyanins. There are also car tints which are generally legal and stop 99% of UV rays, and since most won't be able to tint their windshields, the Chinese use sun masks which is like a hat with a tinted plastic lens in front of it. They are available on Amazon. Sun screen isn't so hard to put on the arms daily, but ime, it all makes my eyes hurt. 

 

Sithira, what have you tried for slowing and reversing brain aging? Remember it might not be your brain either, other organs produce the environment in which your brain functions, you may find that you have better results looking at some other problems which you've overlooked.