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Re:Leonard Guarente's Anti-Aging Pill by aab0 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @04:57PM (#12347566)
"After a rocky start — in his memoir, Ageless Quest, Guarente cops to quitting smoking when he was in third grade — he has lived a generally healthy life. Besides Basis, he takes a low-dose statin, aspirin, and vitamin D; weighs himself every day; eats a mostly Mediterranean diet (red wine included); and does a mix of cardio (on the elliptical machine, ever since his knees wore out and he had to stop running) and strength training three days a week at a gym near his home in the Boston suburb of Newton."

This is a pretty sensible anti-aging regimen. Vitamin D and baby aspirin reduce all-cause mortality in the elderly in the meta-analyses, statins are probably helpful, daily weighing will help avoid obesity and metabolic disorder leading to all sorts of bad things like diabetes, and likewise the cardio & weight training. Such a regimen is probably good for at least 2 additional years of life expectancy. If he was going to add anything more, it would have to be metformin or low-dose rapamycin, and those are speculative enough that one might want to wait for TAME/MILES results before deciding.

Re:Leonard Guarente's Anti-Aging Pill by BatFastard on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:20PM (#12347768)
Indeed it is sensible.

Honestly at this point in my life (58), I have more of a desire to feel great everyday then I do to have 2 more years of life when I am 93.

Re:Leonard Guarente's Anti-Aging Pill by agumonkey on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @11:47PM (#12349533)
Same here. I wish I knew more about how to maintain and even improve my overal well being. Maximizing my potential on this bounded time.

I find society very lacking there. Feels even diminishing returns since our culture, driven by recent economy; optimizes for consumption of safe and regular but low grade and low diversity products. Also stressful lifestyles ..

Re:Leonard Guarente's Anti-Aging Pill by gozur88 on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @10:00PM (#12349150)
That's my feeling exactly. I'm pretty sure I have spent more than two years exercising, so I'm probably already into negative territory on time, but I'd like to be healthy enough in my 60s and early 70s that I can still walk and carry on a conversation without being winded.