Bezos, Musk and other superbillionaires in the world, in addition to investing their huge wealth in space shuttles, alien colonization, and technology, they also have another investment to seek to extend their life. Method (at least to live longer than us ordinary people).
What are the secret recipes for immortality invested by these super-rich billionaires and Silicon Valley tech tycoons?
The rich injected young people’s blood to prevent aging
At the beginning of the 17th century, Countess Elizabeth was superstitious about witchcraft , using the girl’s blood to bathe in order to permanently maintain her youthful beauty. More than 600 girls were killed in a castle in , , Hungary. After people found out, she was imprisoned in her room for life and eventually died of old age.
Bloody Mary
Nowadays, rich people delay aging by injecting young people's blood to rejuvenate their body organs.
A startup in San Francisco is conducting an experiment. They are studying the blood transfusion of young and healthy people (especially those between 16 and 25 years old) to the elderly, not just the elderly (anyone over 35 years old). People) can enjoy this service.
Their experiments on mice showed that young blood can rejuvenate old subjects.
Since the launch of this project, more than 100 people have participated in clinical trials to provide blood transfusions for the elderly. The average age of the elderly patients receiving blood is about 60 years old, and the treatment cost is about 50,000 yuan.
The results show that this method can help improve appearance, diabetes , heart function or memory problems.
However,The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a statement stating that the process "has no proven clinical benefit and potentially harmful." However, the frenzied purchasing power of the wealthy cannot be held up. So far, more companies have provided this kind of service to users.
Digital consciousness
Immortality in digital form-true immortality. This is a project invested by Russian multi-millionaire media tycoon Itskov.
Scientists put forward a theory that the human body will eventually die out, but if our consciousness can be preserved, then in theory, humans can live forever in an immortal way. How does
operate specifically? They plan to use high-tech antiseptic technology to preserve the human brain after death, so that future scientists can "scan the original organic brain of a person and simulate the entire structure on a supercomputer."
The human body can be regarded as a dispensable accessory, and the program that realizes the human can be transferred to any sufficiently powerful computer.
connects our thoughts with the machine world very well, allowing us to live in the cloud.
This crazy idea has received a $1 million investment and more than $915,000 in research funding from the National Institute of Mental Health.
- brain-computer interface
billionaire Elon Musk’s company Neuralink is already working hard to implement a brain-computer interface.
Musk believes that this technology can eventually allow humans to develop a copy of themselves-even after their bodies die, they can survive.
He said: "If your organism dies on its own,You can upload to a new unit. "That is, after your physical body dies, you can copy and paste it into your new body to find a new home for your consciousness.
Frozen human body
Billionaires have also invested in frozen human body and cryopreservation technology.
Preserving organisms (complete specimens or brains only) in a low-temperature environment where metabolism and decay are almost completely stopped, and hope is still placed on future scientists, hoping that future technological advances can revive the body
For those who wish to prolong their lives, it is equivalent to pressing a "pause" button.
There are many companies that provide this kind of service. You can choose to freeze the brain or freeze the whole body. At the same time, They also provide frozen pet services. It costs about 40,000 yuan to freeze pet cats and dogs, and only 7,000 yuan to freeze pet birds. It is probably hoped that you will not feel too lonely when you wake up in a few years.
can be described as " One person gains power, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven".
Laboratory cultured organs
Replace important body organs with new parts
There are many scientists all over the world who are working on the laboratory or by using loaded with living cells. 3D printer to make human organs.
No one likes to get old. Although we use many methods to delay the aging process, aging is an inevitable part of life. At the cellular level, it means The cells stop dividing and eventually die.
Although scientists and super-rich people spend a lot of thought and money racing against time.
But in the animal world, there are miraculous animals that escape aging
- the undead jellyfish
So far,Only one species can be called "biological immortality": lighthouse jellyfish . These small, transparent animals roam the oceans around the world, and they can reverse time by returning to the early stages of their life cycle.
The life cycle diagram of jellyfish
Of course, they are not really "immortal". They can still be eaten by predators or killed by other means.
- The immortal lobster
The lobster will not undergo senescence. Their longevity is due to their ability to repair their DNA endlessly.
Normally, in the process of DNA replication and cell division, the protective telomeres on the chromosomes will gradually become shorter and shorter. When they are too short, a cell will enter the senescence phase and cannot continue. Split.
lobster does not have this problem. When the lobster matures, all its cells will produce a large amount of telomerase , this enzyme can continuously regenerate telomere , so that the lobster can keep young DNA indefinitely.
In principle, lobsters can grow bigger and bigger. However, they face the problem of constantly molting their shells. The bigger the shells are changed, they may eventually become exhausted due to insufficient energy. Of course, the greater risk is going to our table.
Human aging is caused by many factors, many of which are still not fully understood. Perhaps these examples from other species can bring more inspiration to these processes.
Summary
Human life span has been continuously extended, from 30 to 40 years old to the current average age of about 80 years. Although people live longer, senile diseases also follow.
No one wants to live forever at 95,But if you can rejuvenate your body to 29 or 30, you might want to do the same.
Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel is one of the main supporters of research to extend human life. He made a public statement in 2012:
."Money does not buy happiness, but it may buy immortality-or at least, longer than most people's life."
