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215 points XzetaU8 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.21s | source
1. ck2 ◴[] No.45082705[source]
Most longevity supplements and drugs work by pulling biological processes to baseline

That's all they do

So for someone sitting around 24/7 maybe vaguely helpful

For someone active, they defeat stress adaptations, so your "gains" disappear or never happen in the first place

They also do nothing for disease, they may help avoid some disease but once the disease is in progress, they can't cure anything

There's going to have to be a "next gen" of such drugs, years if not decades away

The next-gen will probably deal with mitochondria function, enhancing and restoring/rebooting dysfunction, which actually might cure some disease

So hopefully investment will continue towards "next gen", it's a very long road