by If a lifespan expansion technology you know is not on the list, you could see the other ones in the first two parts. The first two parts explored life expansion technologies like Organ printing, Cybernetics, stem cell research, and Metformin.
You can read the first two parts of this series here:
Part 1
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Part 2
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Technologies that might extend our lifespan part 3
The Health spans too. As years go by, humans' health span and lifespan are becoming longer. Back in the days, Athletes retires in their 30s, and now we have Athletes still active in their 40s. We have no technologies that help people look and even feel younger in their 50s. Ageing is inevitable, but it might become a thing of the past.
With the new technologies, diets, and nutrition discovered, We now have 50-year-olds who look like on their 20s and are still young and strong. I know lifespan expansion has made people think the world will be screwed and overpopulated, but you are wrong. If people live longer, fewer people will have children. Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea, and Japan are examples of long lifespan countries with dropping birth rates. Mortality makes people in a hurry to breed like rabbits back then to replace the people who died because people died in their 40s. Now the average lifespan is 80, and it might even become longer. That will make more people care about having kids less.
Here are some Technologies that exist now that promise to expand humans' healthspan and lifespan.
Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy
This technology has existed for a long time. The scientists created this technology for Scuba divers and astronauts. Scuba divers are at risk of getting aneurysms, so they use this therapy. They enter this coffin-like chamber that is like an oxygen-rich chamber. The room can lessen nitrogen bubbles on their blood and tissues. Scuba divers had used this machine to keep them healthy.
People with non-healing wounds, like people with diabetes, used this machine too.
Recently an Israeli Scientist discovered that people who use this machine three times a week get longer telomerase cells on their bodies. Telomerase is what young people have, and as we age, our tissues and organs get damaged because our telomerase decreases.
A lot of the life extension technologies I featured, It's the only one that is fully legal and globally available. A treatment is around 68 USD in developing countries and 100 dollars in the US. You have to make a lot of money to afford the Treatment. They tested this on a 95-year-old who could barely walk, and he felt like can run again after a year of Treatment. This Treatment fights to age, but you must afford the Treatment every week to feel the effects.
They even tried it on Covid Patients, and their bodies recovered faster along with the medication.
Chimera pigs
For decades scientists have been trying to make Pigs Organ donors for humans. They inject human DNA into a pig embryo. Then the source will be injected into a female pig, giving birth to a piglet with human cells. The kidney or heart of the big will be harvested and be pumped with more human DNA so it will become a matching organ donor for humans. 4 days ago, the first pig-to-human heart transplant just happened. We are not sure, though, if he will survive, but we don't have reports of his death yet, so we can say he is still alive. That piglet's life just made this man live longer. The majority of older people die of organ failure, and if we can replace organs with young, healthy ones every decade, we can live longer than expected.
Two months ago, the first Porcine to human kidney transplant was operated on a Braindead patient to see its feasibility.
Growth Hormones
When we are children, our bodies are rich in Growth Hormones. As we age, it decreases, and we become wrinkly, weak, and old. This Treatment is not yet legal, nor FDA approved, but this dermatologist had been using this to herself to keep herself young.
Though this one is not yet legal, People who tried it said they felt more vigorous and younger ever since they started injecting growth hormones. I don't trust this technology yet, but the potential is there.
This older man can do bodybuilding and become physically strong, and has the stamina to stay at the gym because of growth hormones.
Pancreas transplant.
Diabetes has been considered an incurable disease for a long time. Well, not anymore. There is now a cure for diabetes, and that technology is a Pancreas transplant! If you have diabetes and replace your pancreas with a donor, Your diabetes will be gone! No more need for insulin injections! You need to take medications, though, so your body won't reject the new organs.
There are more things I want to achieve and historical events I want to witness. I want to be alive when my country reaches first world status. I am excited that the pig heart man is still alive because I want to abuse that technology someday. Elderly people dies of organ failure and I will never suffer of organ failure if I can switch organs as long as I can afford it.