Here’s an interview with Durk Pearson in 2023. He sounds sharp at his age.
That website needs a membership to view it. If you can cut and paste that article here, it would be helpful.
No, but I’ve tried deer antler velvet(not sure if it’s what you are talking about). Was not very impressed from the price to performance aspect.
The Russian president, who turns 73 on October 7, has already been in power for almost 26 years
Russian scientists have been ordered to come up with anti-ageing remedies by an official close to President Putin.
The official is said to be obsessed with eternal life. Putin will be 73 in October and most of his top administrators are about the same age. The average life expectancy for men in Russia is 67.
The Russian health ministry has told research institutes to report as soon as possible on their efforts to tackle cognitive and sensory disorders, cellular ageing and osteoporosis, as well as boosting immune systems.
“We were asked to urgently send all our developments, and the letter arrived, let’s say, today, but everything had to be sent yesterday,” one researcher said, according to the Meduza website.
The ministry also expressed interest in 3D bioprinting, a new technology that scientists hope will one day allow doctors to “print” organs and tissue on demand.
The urgency of the anti-ageing research has been linked to the reported involvement of Mikhail Kovalchuk, one of Putin’s close friends. Kovalchuk, 77, is the head of Russia’s Kurchatov nuclear research institute and a leading member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also oversees a state-backed programme on research into genetics that involves Putin’s eldest daughter, an endocrinologist.
“Kovalchuk is crazy about eternal life … and he ran to the president [with the idea], a Kremlin source said.
Mikhail Kovalchuk, a close friend of Putin’s, is said to have come up with the idea to push scientists over anti-ageing
An employee at the national medical research centre also suggested that Kovalchuk or Putin were involved in promoting research into prolonging lifespans. “The big boss set the task and officials rushed to implement it in every possible way,” the unnamed researcher said.
Besides his apparent obsession with a cure for ageing, Kovalchuk has suggested that western countries are developing biological weapons that would only affect ethnic Russians. He has also accused the United States of creating an artificial “subspecies of service people” who have limited self-awareness.
Putin is said to share many of Kovalchuk’s beliefs in conspiracy theories. Yury Kovalchuk, Kovalchuk’s younger brother, is a media and finance tycoon who is known as Putin’s personal banker; he is also believed to have encouraged the president to invade Ukraine.
The order to develop remedies to combat ageing while hundreds of thousands of young and middle-aged Russians are dying or being seriously injured in was described as “cynicism” by one research centre employee.
There has been speculation that the president has Parkinson’s disease.
“As if we have no one to put back on their feet but these boneheads,” the researcher said, referring to Putin and his ageing inner circle. “We have to drop everything even now during wartime.”
There have been rumours for years that Putin is suffering from Parkinson’s disease or even cancer, but there are no indications that he is seriously ill.
Despite enjoying top-quality healthcare, Putin is said to take regular baths in an extract made from the blood of the severed antlers of Siberian red deer. Bathers believe that the extract has rejuvenating powers and can perform wonders for male potency. The antlers are sawn from living deer once a year.
In January of last year, one of Russia’s top researchers into longevity, Professor Vladimir Khavinson, died in St Petersburg at the age of 77. The head of Russia’s Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology, Khavinson was best known for his rejuvenating drugs, which he claimed were taken by Soviet leaders such as Leonid Brezhnev.
Valentina Matviyenko, the head of Russia’s upper house of parliament, and Alina Kabaeva, Putin’s rumoured lover, are believed to have used the drugs. It is unclear if Putin has taken them. Critics say there is no evidence that they are effective.
Khavinson, an eminent longevity expert in Russia, died at the age of 77.
You make good sense. Having said that, people and their organs age at different rates depending on variables. Not everyone in a blue zone lives to 100.
Couple things:
I’m a religious man myself (somewhat, not as much as I would like to be) yet I ignore/discount any living person that talks to God. Oh, I almost forgot, no I will not be running a marathon when I’m 80 no matter how good a shape I’m in lol
I bought three bottles of deer antler velvet extract. But before I started taking, I read about chronic wasting disease.
Bottles are still in the drawer. Been hemming and hewing for about five years. The capsules probably are already expired. Will throw them out tomorrow.
@fisher1
“I ignore/discount any living person that talks to God.”
But what about Ramanujan, the great Indian mathematician who said that a Hindu goddess sent him equations in his dreams?
“I will not be running a marathon when I’m 80.”
No, nor I. I’m a sprinter, not a marathon man.
@JuanDaw
“chronic wasting disease”
Supposedly not transmittable to people, but other prion diseases are, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob. I wouldn’t risk it either.
Felix Baumgartner passed away at 56, on July 17 20205.
It’s said he was paragliding, and had a medical episode which caused him to crash.
He was know for jumping to the earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere in 2012, sponsored by Red Bull.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner
If this is the case, he’s probably taking mostly big pharma medications. Googled the Siberian red deer antlers, and it does appear to be the deer antler velvet type product. It is said to contain low dose peptides such as IGF-1.
No where near big pharma dosing sizes in their products.
Generally peptides are not very orally bioavailable. They are often degraded in the digestive system and have difficulty crossing the intestinal barrier to enter the bloodstream.
Could not find that extract listed on the banned WADA list (world anti-doping agency).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_drugs_banned_by_the_World_Anti-Doping_Agency
Almost all athletes who get caught are using big pharma products.