It doesn’t mean you don’t still enjoy those things, but they no longer define who you are.
I talk about this all the time. When I was younger, having the ‘right’ pair of shoes was everything… young women often go into crazy debt to make sure they are seen with the ‘right’ handbag….
When you are older, you might still love those things, but most will eventually learn they are still valuable human beings without them. Having said that, I’m not sure there is hope for this new generation who has these images thrown at them on social media 2/47… perhaps they will always feel less than?
Fun fact: I was at a dinner when I was in my late 20’s. My friend’s friend, a substitute teacher, shared she went to Hermes that day to be put on a waiting list for a Birkin bag. She said by the time my name comes up, I’ll be married and will be able to afford it.
(I threw up a little in my mouth)
But, truly feeling a reversal of age with rapamycin, TRT and HGH. Really physically feeling great and physiology top form, like in my 40’s… will be 68 years in a month… certainly not like being in 80’s.
Truly a cognitive difference and like much younger people… old age is something that I will get to… someday.
I understand what you’re saying. When I was young, I lived with my wife and three daughters. Even the youngest ones were aware of how they looked. Teenage girls are under a lot of peer pressure from their friends, and they really care about what they wear. It was so bad that it mattered not only what brand the jeans were but also where they were bought. My wife was “low maintenance” when I was young, so she didn’t start buying expensive purses and other things. until my daughters moved out and we had the money to do it.
Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy nice things; I just don’t have to have them. I have the nicest electric car in the neighborhood, not because I needed one, but because I don’t like all of the hassle of an ICE car. No gas stations, no oil changes, just no bother in general compared to my previous car, which was a Mercedes (which was my wife’s choice).
The main point is, somewhere along the line a switch was flipped. For a long time I have not cared what other people think about me, especially strangers. This has been comforting to me and reduces a lot of daily stress. This sometimes bothers my daughters because I will send food back in a restaurant if it is not as described or there is something wrong with it. I am absolutely sure that old people are more likely to send food back at a restaurant or question the price of an item at checkout; it does not bother us. Young people seem to be embarrassed to do this.
$14.5 per gallon? It’s insane. How are ordinary people expected to survive? We talk about life extension and pushing longevity, yet in many places people are struggling to afford the most fundamental necessities and are squeezed from every direction.
You have to have money to own a combustion car in Hong Kong. Or you just buy an EV. Before the Iran War, gas was $8.5 USD a gallon. It’s still a big jump though.
The math gets complicated and somewhat contested in detail but $14 per gallon would likely cover the costs of the externalities for which fossil fuel has been an economic freerider. It looks like Hong Kong has good economic sense.
re Peter Attia – I remember a podcast he did a long while back – he was describing a patient who came into the ER, a young woman who was obese and diabetic and now was looking at having to have part of her leg amputated. Attia said in the podcast, that he looked at her and felt disdain and disgust (did not say anything or do anything to convey his feelings.) He said he wondered how anyone could possibly let that happen. But then, a few years later, during his “not thin” awakening, he recognized how people can slip, gradually or suddenly, into bad habits that lead to catastrophe, like this female patient. He felt genuinely horrible about his disdain of her, his lack of compassion. Listening and watching him in the video, I felt respect for him in sharing. And also for sharing his experience with having to learn to tame his anger and other mental issues (described in Outlive) So: he is not a flawless person but he is capable of feeling disgrace and retribution, owning it, and behaving differently going forward. I never forgot that podcast and was thinking about it now as he is enduring this shitstorm. Yeah, he is not perfect, but he has done much good. And his poor judgement re Epstein has cost him a great deal. At this point, I feel he is more sinned against than sinning.
I watched the Bill Maher podcast with Andrew Huberman
(Fwiw Huberman was quite likable and worth noting he shared that funding was not cut for finding cancer treatments with MRNA)
I know he and Attia are fellow podcast bros/friends, so I found it surprising, in a good way, that he was not cutting any slack to anyone who was willing to socialize with a known pedophile. He did not name Attia but it appears he is not excusing him… again, my mind was blown… and my respect for Huberman just grew a little bit… like the Grinch’s heart :).
I am not connected with the funding but if Huberman said funding was not cut for mRNA research he is in conflict with the evidence I have seen. I put this simple prompt to an LLM and received three pages of detail about the cuts. I’ll paste a summary table in but you might see how one of the LLMs you use answers this question.
I am seeing conflicting information on whether federal funding for mNRA research was cut under the current administration’s department of health or its DOGE efforts. Unpack this issue.
Summary Table: Source of Funding Shifts
Feature
HHS Action (Departmental)
DOGE/Administrative Action
Primary Mechanism
Contract cancellations & de-scoping.
Indirect cost caps & personnel RIFs.
Direct mRNA Impact
$1.1B+ in specific mRNA contracts cut.
General budgetary pressure on NIH/NSF.
Stated Goal
Moving away from mRNA toward “natural immunity.”
Reducing government waste and overhead.
Legal Status
Multiple lawsuits from states and universities.
Ongoing litigation regarding “Schedule F” and RIFs.
In short: The specific cancellation of contracts was a policy-driven move by HHS, while the reduction in overall research capacity and administrative support was a product of the DOGE-led restructuring of the federal workforce.
I had heard similar which is why I found it interesting.
He said he talked to Jay Bhattacharya who said cancer MRNA research is still going forward, but they pulled funding for MRNA research related to upper respiratory disease (which still angers me!)
I would want to know more but from the titles of the projects defunded, this looks like a false flag being planted by Kennedy et al. mRNA research findings are fungible and virtually all of the cancer research funding was on vaccinations. Some were very close to trials. More political games. From the public knowledge it looks like anything with the word mRNA in the proposals was killed or slashed to a non-functional level. Some of the research has been picked up and funded, along with the scientists who moved with it. A loss for the US so we can focus on policy that brings back measles epidemics, etc.
I haven’t listened to the recent podcasts, but the newsletters are still good. There was one about cataracts removals and reducing dementia, and another about intensity cholesterol lowering and CVD (55mg/dl is better than 70mg/dl, shown yet again). Every newsletter has come with a cute disclaimer at the beginning about him taking time to reflect, continuing the mission of education etc.
Attia definitely changed my life, and I’ll always credit him for that. I will still follow, but I have chosen not to continue to support him financially for now.
I’ve gotten those emails but said can’t be confirmed by sender so thought it some scam. My biggest issue with Attia is of course his involvement at all, but that email he put out……had he simply said this all took place during the time he was so emotionally messed up, and that,as he said in his book, he’s had a lot of therapy which continues, even spending significant time in various residential facilities and is now not the person he was then and leave it at that I could have some respect for that, but the way he tried to spin things and for instance say “To be clear…….” and continue that he’d never been on the island, when it was reported he had tickets to go but something came up, I’m just so turned off by all that. Even if reports he had tickets are untrue, given his emails to Epstein, I’d be shocked had he turned down a chance to go to the island.
People have said that he’s a narcissist but according to HG Tudor who imo has an excellent channel on narcissism, a narcissist would not go to therapy to figure out his issues, self reflect, accept blame, be sorrowful…….I really respected him for that but sure wish he’d have been totally authentic in his email.
For better or worse, I read the actual emails that he had airline tickets to go to his ranch in Nevada… and then another email from JE’s assistant saying JE has to cancel on you.
And yes, anything he has said has turned me off far more than had he said nothing at all.
A simple, ‘yes, what I did was gross, but I was young and broke and JE could help me become rich and powerful, so I was selfish and turned a blind eye to the fact he was a pedophile. I’m am deeply embarrassed and ashamed” would have nicely sufficed
Maybe even throw in ‘to try to atone, I’m going to donate 10M to shelters for trafficked girls.
In other news, I was quite pleased to see that one of my idols, Warren Buffet, is not currently talking Bill Gates… Warren has never been hotter
I have looked at this thread many times and thought about commenting. I have zero use for Atila. I knew something was off when I saw his first Stoned Rogan appearance, when Rogan was still somewhat whatchabe. Attia has pioneered nothing and only parroted others for personnel gain. Grifter, influencer, pedo supporter, possibly pedo himself, forgivable because he parroted abo-b, not in my world.
An important role is fulfilled by those who unpack and synthesize research findings, making them accessible to non-scientists and educating a wider audience as to their importance. Carl Sagan, Bill Nye, and Neil deGrasse Tyson come to mind in this regard. Those who do this well in geroprotection are few in number. Attia is a demonstrable leader among those few. His importance is not diminished when he presents information already understood by enthusiasts like us.
