Reddit reviews Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

So, Elysium is a company that sells a nicotinamide riboside stack. They have the quickest, easiest explanation of NAD+, nicotinamide riboside as a form of vitamin B3, and sirtuins (epigenetic repair mechanism) that I've read online. I don't take their supplements, but I feel like they do a good job explaining the science and making the case for why NR supplementation is beneficial.

David Sinclair had an excellent book published last month that goes over most of his research at Harvard on NAD, resveratrol, sirtuins, and all his (kind of weird) CRISPR experiments. I found the first few chapters of his book the most interesting. He goes really in depth on the subject of sirtuins, but in a way that's not too hard for a normal person to understand.

The two researchers who have most helped me understand the body's natural repair mechanisms are Satchin Panda at the Salk Institute (studies time restricted eating) and Valter Longo at USC (studies periodic fasting). I've read both their books. They're just ok. I feel like I learned more listening to them discuss their work on Rhonda Patrick's podcast than I did reading their books.

TBH, I really don't care too much about the longevity potential or the CRISPR stuff. I really just want some hope and relief from chronic fatigue NOW. Most longevity researchers study cancer, diabetes, or autoimmune disease in order to better understand why our bodies decline with age and their work is really interesting to read. Does any of their research have direct application to recovering from a glutening, or celiac disease in general? Probably???... but only time and clinical trials will tell for sure.

Hopefully someone will find all this as interesting as I do. Sometimes I really feel that it's not fair that celiac disease doesn't get the same intense attention from researchers as Crohn's or MS, but honestly we have it way easier than people with those diseases, so we do have something to be thankful for, and eventually the breakthroughs from studying fundamental autoimmunity will have some sort of positive implication for everyone who has a form of autoimmune disease.

Agreed, the monies wasted on the war machines of this world are vast (all countries, all conflicts, all cold wars scenarios), even th worlds research and development institutions are deeply structured to produce results for the worlds war machines. Do you see any massive funding for the fields of longevity (check out www.reddir.com/r/longevity and also www.sens.org www.fightaging.org and www.mprize.org ) the exploding fields of biotechnology and nanotechnology will enable us to completely reverse all aging processes at the molecular level. Aubrey de gray said that a couple of billions (over 12 years ago) could solve the required research and development to demonstrate a reversal of aging in mice (then humans shortly thereafter), the thing is, we as a species spend a minimum of 2 billions per day on all the worlds militaries combined ( that’s 2000 x 1-million dollars per day)! That’s probably not the only costs as you have to consider all the damage of past wars (20th century wars, 21st century wars as a recent examples), Carl Sagan said that all the wars of the last 2000 odd years have really held us back so much that we should be at a level of a Star Trek society by now (hopefully minus the military aspects even though that’s what makes interesting dramas etc). War game simulations done in the 1980’s by the pentagon during the Cold War world always produce an escalation to nuclear war situation....so the current world wide Cold War environment we find ourselves in is very dangerous as we have now many players who have nukes and different conflicting agendas to consider. There is going to be a very interesting book on aging and the coming revolution of biotechnology and biotechnology breakthroughs, the book is coming out in September:

https://www.amazon.com/Lifespan-Revolutionary-Science-Age-Dont-ebook/dp/B07N4C6LGR