The first-ever reverse-aging drug was just injected into a human

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Business Insider

A first-of-its-kind shot that promises to reverse aging was just injected into a human body.

It's a pivotal moment for longevity science, the first opportunity for researchers to prove that epigenetic reprogramming — a technique that trains aging cells to act young again — can actually improve how people age in the real world.

On Tuesday, Boston-based biotech startup Life Biosciences announced that its first patient has been dosed with a cellular reprogramming injection, designed to reverse age-related diseases.

Billionaires, including Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman, as well as pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Merck, have been increasingly investing in this idea, which, until now, had been relegated to mouse and monkey research.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/first-ever-reverse-aging-drug-100002558.html

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Just what we need in a time of over population.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. No need to worry about overpopulation

Think billionaires will allow the hoi polloi access to a drug like that? Meanwhile, they’ll depopulate the planet while keeping the goodies to themselves.

[thesquanderer]

2. Exactly. It will cost a million dollars per dose so the wealthiest can live forever...

...while the rest of us will be turned into soylent green.

[Doodley]

4. And AI and robotics will make most humans disposable.

[Wicked Blue]

3. Just what we need: people like T-rump and M*sk who never die

[mdbl]

5. Shudder

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Life sentences are the cure for that.

That's an old horror story trope -- someone is magically made immortal, then imprisoned for life. Or tortured.

[CousinIT]

6. Overpopulation and idiots hanging around in public office until they're

goddamned 100 years old.

Ugh.

EDIT: Also, only the rich sociopaths would be able to afford this drug. No way will insurance companies cover it. So we'll be overrun with old, white, rich sociopaths who refuse to give up their power and influence.

Greaaaat.

[dickthegrouch]

7. Is it made from the blood of virgins?

Hopefully, like all the movies that depict similar scenarios, it works for a short while and then the people that take it die painfully when it's no longer available.

[fantase56]

9. Compound "V" anyone??

who gets to be Homelander I wonder

[LogDog75]

10. Major problems with reverse-aging drugs

As some have pointed out, the rich and the powerful will limit the drugs to mainly themselves and their followers. Insurance companies won't cover the drug cost because Big Pharma would keep the price high to make money. Big Pharma would make some of the drugs available to the public at lower costs to give hope to the millions who would never receive it.

Among the other problems, a reverse-aging drug could/would lead to longer lives and that will affect the economies of the world. If the general population were to have easy access to the drugs Social Security and Medicare would go broke because you would have millions of people living to 100 or longer collecting benefits decades longer than they normally would. To counteract that happening, the retirement age for Social Security and Medicare would be raised requiring people to work into their 80s. the alternative to this is for the government to take control of the drugs and limiting it's distribution to only a few, mainly the people in power.

Another problem would be food production. With increased lifespans the world's population would increase putting pressure on the ability of countries to feed their citizens, provide clean water, sanitation, etc... Resources to support the increased populations would strain the ability of countries to meet their needs. This would result in the rise of authoritarian regimes that would be lead by those who have no hesitation to go to war with their neighbors to obtain those resources which, IMO, would lead to multiple war and or global wars that would set humanity back a hundred years or more.

Now if the drugs were to simply make specific organs like new without increasing life expectancy, then it would be a major development provided it's available to the average citizen.

[BubbaJoe]

11. So do they age in reverse

Like that Benjamin Button movie?

Also see Father Guido Sarducci's "Coming and Going Planet"

[LudwigPastorius]

12. "Billionaires, including Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman - have been increasingly investing in this idea..."

Great.

Get ready for "Benjamin Butthole", eternally 20-year-old broligarchs ruining our lives forever.