Ben Goertzel believes an 82-year-old could take a daily pill and get back the body they had at 30.
He says this'll happen in 2-4 years.
He says getting old is just our body's cells slowly wearing out, not a fixed rule of nature.
Scientists have already discovered old cells can turn young again in a lab.
The missing piece is only a mind smart enough to plan the repair for all 37 trillion cells in the human body.
Goertzel believes a super-smart AI will do exactly that.
He even said it about his own parents, who are 82 and healthy:
"If we get super-intelligence in the next 5 years, they will probably not die."
— Ben Goertzel (.@bengoertzel), founder of SingularityNET (.@SingularityNET)
baking soda CHANGES how your immune cells behave. for $0.02/day.
no seriously. read that again.
scientists had people drink baking soda in water for two weeks. then checked what happened inside their bodies.
the cells that cause inflammation? went DOWN.
the cells that calm inflammation? went UP.
in the spleen. in the blood. in the kidneys. everywhere.
do you know what that means?
your immune system — the thing that’s supposed to PROTECT you — was attacking your own body. your joints. your gut. your skin.
baking soda told it to stop.
the researchers’ exact words? your spleen got the message: “it’s a hamburger. not an infection.”
exactly. your body thought everything was a threat. baking soda said relax. it’s just food.
(Ray et al., 2018 — Journal of Immunology)
arthritis. lupus. IBD. psoriasis. all caused by your own immune system fighting YOU.
your doctor prescribes drugs at $2,000/month. side effects? a whole page of them.
baking soda is in your kitchen right now. $0.02/day.
half a teaspoon. glass of water. empty stomach. morning.
your immune system isn’t broken. it just forgot who the enemy is.
this isn’t advice. it’s a published study. do what you want with it.
When skin age reversal alone is a $2T market, systemic age reversal will easily exceed $10T, the largest market in history.
Participants in our human trial were biologically 5.8 years younger than their chronological age, together with significant improvement int heir quality of life. We aim for 10 years by the end of 2027.
Your skin ages mostly from the bottom up. At its base are stem cells that renew it, and with age they lose a stress gene called ATF3, about 20 percent of it. Without it, they become zombie cells that stop dividing, won't die, and inflame everything around them.
@geochurch's lab gave those cells ATF3 back as mRNA. Zombie cells fell by about a quarter, the stem cells restarted, and the layer below made roughly 200 percent more collagen, because the treated cells signaled down to the fibroblasts that build it.
This is why creams struggle. A moisturizer sits on the dead surface, while all this happens two layers down, and a collagen molecule is far too big to soak in. Collagen in a jar never reaches your face.
Human skin and mice so far, no person treated, already a startup. Nobody added collagen. They switched the skin's own factory back on.
The toxin that’s making you fat literally KILLED 83% of the mice in this study.
You’re eating 1800 calories. You’re training 5 days a week. Your pants fit the same at 1800 as they did at 2400. You’ve stopped bringing it up.
You don’t have a fat problem. You have a poisoning problem.
Right now, bacteria in your gut are producing lipopolysaccharide — LPS — a toxin so lethal that when researchers injected it into mice, 83% died.
They gave another group LACTOFERRIN first. Same dose of LPS. Same exposure. 16.7% died. The rest survived. The gut lining stayed intact.
One compound. One dose. One hour before exposure. Survival flipped.
That same toxin — at lower levels — is leaking through your gut wall right now. Your body detects it and does the only thing it knows how to do. Stores fat around your organs to protect itself.
That’s visceral fat. You’re not building it. Your immune system is.
No deficit on earth can override your body’s survival protocol.
When they gave enteric-coated lactoferrin to 26 humans with abdominal obesity — 300mg, 8 weeks — the lactoferrin group lost 8x more visceral fat than placebo. Same food. Same activity.
Two roads. Keep cutting calories while your gut leaks poison into your blood. Or fix the thing that’s actually causing it.
Nobody is coming to tell you this.
PMID: 20691130
BIG ANTI-AGING BREAKTHROUGH
Scientists just reverse a key form of aging damage once thought permanent 🤯!
> Researchers engineered a novel enzyme called CMLase that repairs Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs), harmful molecular damage that builds up in tissues as we age.
> In aged human artery tissue, the enzyme removed over 70% of accumulated CML damage. In elderly human skin, it reduced CML levels to those seen in approximately 30-year old skin.
> AGEs stiffen arteries, weaken skin, and damage the extracellular matrix (ECM), the structural scaffold that supports our cells. They were long considered irreversible.
> This is the first evidence that a major AGE can be enzymatically repaired in human tissue, opening a new path toward structural rejuvenation alongside cellular anti-aging therapies.
welcome to the fastest accelerating SciTech Era ♥️ 🫡!
Right now, the sugar in your blood is sticking to your proteins. Not the sugar from food, but the glucose every cell runs on. Your HbA1c test measures this: sugar attached to a blood protein. Blood renews every few months, so that clears out. But your collagen, eye lenses, and artery walls last for decades, and there the sugar builds up into deposits called AGEs that stiffen the tissue. For 40 years, this was considered permanent, and no diet could reverse it.
Today, a paper reversed that view. Revel Pharmaceuticals, spun out of @DASpiegel256's Yale lab, engineered an enzyme that finds one of these tags, CML, and rebuilds the original protein. In tissue from elderly donors, it cleared over 70% from aged arteries and brought 75-year-old skin below a 31-year-old's level. The brown staining in the image is that damage. The pale panel is the same-aged tissue after the enzyme.
There are several caveats. It's in a dish, not a living body. It clears CML, not glucosepane, the crosslink that stiffens tissue most and is still beyond reach. Whether it works in a living person, nobody knows yet.
But "irreversible" just cracked. Revel is an @aubreydegrey spinout, the repair thesis he's pushed for 25 years, finally on the board.
A new study found eating 2 kiwis a day increased skin density by 48% and epidermal cell regeneration by 30% in just 8 weeks.
Vitamin C levels significantly increased in the blood, skin fluid, and epidermal tissue—improving overall skin structure from the inside out.
This is great news.
As you age, sugar binding to your proteins creates stiff, sticky chemical scars that affect skin, arteries, eyes and more. It was considered irreversible and now may be reversible, restoring to a healthy state.
Researches did this by using AlphaFold to search 45,000 oxidases, then screened more than 500 million engineered variants through directed evolution.
The work is still ex vivo in a lab setting. Delivering a large bacterial enzyme safely into living tissues, with sufficient penetration and bioavailability, remains a major challenge.
In 1940, a pair of identical twin boys were born in Ohio and placed for adoption just weeks after birth. They were sent to different families who had no contact with each other. Neither family knew much about the other. Each set of parents, independently, chose to name their new son James.
The two boys grew up in separate homes, in separate towns, living what appeared to be entirely separate lives. But as researchers would later discover, the parallels running through those lives were almost impossible to believe.
Both boys went by the nickname Jim. Both married a woman named Linda, then divorced her. Both then remarried a woman named Betty. Both had a son and named him James Alan. Both owned a dog at some point in their childhood and gave it the same name: Toy. Both had worked in law enforcement. Both drove the same model of Chevrolet. Both had built a white bench around a tree in their backyard.
Neither Jim knew the other existed until 1979, when they were 39 years old and finally reunited.
The case of James Springer and James Lewis, known ever since as the Jim Twins, became one of the most studied examples in the history of twin research. University of Minnesota researchers used their reunion as a landmark moment in understanding how much of human personality, preference, and behavior is shaped by genetics rather than environment.
Two men raised by strangers in different towns. Same name. Same marriages. Same dog. Same sons. Same bench in the backyard.
Some things, it turns out, run deeper than circumstance.
Joe Rogan fell into stunned silence as Dr. Casey Means rattled off one disturbing health stat after another.
“We are getting destroyed, and it’s very recent, and it’s accelerating,” she warned.
• “74% of Americans are overweight or obese.”
• “Young adult cancers are going up 79% in the last 10 years.”
• “25% of men now under 40 have erectile dysfunction.”
• “50%, now, of American adults have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes. These were diseases where there was 1% of Americans in 1950 had type 2 diabetes. Now it’s 50% of Americans have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.”
• “Alzheimer’s, dementia are going through the roof.”
• “Young adult dementias have increased, like, three times since 2012. So early onset dementias.”
• “One in two Americans are expected to have cancer in their lifetime now, one in two.”
• “One in [31] children has autism now, in the United States. That was one in 150 in the year 2000.”
• “In California, where I live, [Autism rates are] one in 22. One in 22 with a lifetime neurodevelopmental disorder.”
• “Infertility going up 1% per year.”
• “77% of young Americans can’t serve in the military because of obesity or drug abuse.”
• “Autoimmune diseases. Some studies are saying they’re going up 13% per year.”
• “Heart disease, which is almost totally preventable, is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 800,000 people per year.”
“It’s basically like all of us are a little bit dead while we’re alive,” Dr. Means said.
These aren’t unrelated crises. They share the same biological pattern — a body stuck in survival mode.
And once you understand what’s keeping your body there, the path to real healing finally makes sense. 🧵
@joerogan@Spotify This guy NEEDS to be heard on bigger platforms. Established Top Scientists have backed his research and is looking for funding.
https://t.co/6eESlzRLBS