Billionaire claims aging process 'reversed'

[Skywizard]

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Can stem cells really reverse the ageing process ? Image Credit: CC BY 2.0 US Army RDECOM


Fashion mogul Peter Nygard's investment in stem cell research has allegedly resulted in a cure for aging.

The 70-year-old billionaire who lives in the Bahamas has claimed that a stem cell treatment he has been undergoing over the last four years has reversed the aging process in his own body and that he is literally getting younger by the day.

"Stem cells are being used for anti-aging and the University of Miami is doing a study about that to prove that it is true," he said. "They are looking at me, and my markers have shown exactly that I have been actually reversing my aging and getting younger."

Nygard has already invested millions in stem cell research and is looking to set up a new facility in the near future.

"I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother who I loved very much and western medicine was not able to cure her, and if I had discovered stem cells a year before, I think that she would still be here with me," he said.


Source: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/263050/billionaire-claims-aging-process-reversed


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[Ellisa]

I am not religious, but I firmly believe that there is a time for everything, and keeping yourself sensibly fit and active is one thing, but using dramatic measures to remain 'hot' is definitely quite another! Stem cells are already used to enable us to help many with disabling and disrupting conditions to live happy and productive lives--- but no one should want to live forever. Eventually our brains will fail us, and fixing that will be hard, and finite. The nursing homes of the future will be places of horror filled with people capable of running a four minute mile drooling in a daze in front of the TV, or having their frozen, unlined,beautiful faces wiped clean after an attempt to feed themselves.

So my vote is 'yes' to stem-cell research for alleviating health conditions, but no to the lonely old age that looms for those 'young' 90 year olds.

P.S. I must point out that I am contemplating this dilemma a lot closer to the fact than most of you here!

[EC1000]

I'm a firm believer in the idea that our bodies and minds were designed to last a lot longer than they currently do but "someone" altered our DNA so the aging process would be what it is today. Hmmm I wonder if the key to longevity is in some of that there "junk DNA" scientist claim we have. If this guy has found a way to reverse the process then im all for it.
This may be one of the reasons why the government was so against stem cell research not too long ago (like they werent doing it anyway behind closed doors)

[ghostrider]

again the henok prophecy , scientist will discover the gene responsible for our age , and humans will live to be 300 years old ...one day we will live like our ET family and grow to be 1,000 yrs old ...

[happyexpat]

For myself, personally, I am not really interested in this. Who wants to live too long ? My mother-in-law talks regularly how she is tired of outliving one set of friends after another. She is in her 90s.
I do think it is interesting, though, that according to various sources people lived a lot longer a few thousand years ago than they do now. Of course, people live longer now in the last century than many did for the 1,000 years before that, so who knows.

[bogeyman]

The search for immortality is always been sort out, with technological advances behind closed doors far exceeding the technology currently being used, you probably will not see it for many years to come, after all the population is growing exponentially and the resources are being mismanaged and running out.

[Zaya]

Maybe this billionaire guy should watch Aronofsky's "The Fountain"...

[seeker/reader]

Some people will never understand that they are not their bodies. They already have immorality via their eternal soul which is what they truly are and their bodies are just meat suits!

Maybe once their bodies have died and they are standing there looking at it at the death scene, they will finally clue in!

They will be thinking, "My body is there, it looks dead but I am still here. I am still thinking and BEING."

Then they will go :doh:
Then they will finally get it :whoo:

And say, "I am eternal! No body needed!"

[TargeT]

Sign me up!

more time to learn / understand at peek capability... I'm 34, I've JUST started my "down hill" slide... I'd love to be 25 again physically with 34 years of knowledge...

I hope this pans out and doesn't stay a "rich mans" treatment.


this consciousness antenna is entertaining, I don't mind staying a while longer.


after all the population is growing exponentially and the resources are being mismanaged and running out.


This is partially correct, but the outcome is not what you think, most developed countries are not growing in population (except by immigration) and a resource can be anything, the understanding of what you have and how to use it are all that is needed to turn "junk" into a resource.