Let the Rich Try to Buy Back Their Youth

Subject: Let the Rich Try to Buy Back Their Youth Fri Mar 01, 2019 8:35 pm

So maybe the blood of the young isn’t the fountain of youth after all. The Food and Drug Administration warned last week that the growing business of selling plasma injections to fight the effects of aging “has no proven clinical benefit.” Within hours, one of the leading providers of such services, the startup Ambrosia, announced that it had “ceased patient treatments.”

Nevertheless, one wonders whether all of this is Canute commanding the tide. The business of selling youth to the aging is as old as history, and is likely never to stop. People don’t want to die.(4) They don’t even want to age. The global market for anti-aging products is expected to exceed $330 billion by 2021, according to one estimate.(2) Says Peter Diamandis, the physician and entrepreneur who founded the X Prize Foundation: “Adding 20 to 30 healthy years on a person’s life is likely to be the largest market opportunity on Earth.”

Fear of aging isn’t the same as fear of dying. Lots of people just want to avoid winding up like the struldbrug of Luggnagg, who in Jonathan Swift’s telling lived forever but continued to age. The point is to stop aging itself in its tracks, to avoid entirely the season of life so beloved by the poets, the period when the hitherto reliable body performs with decreasing efficiency all the wonderful tasks through which it once zipped without complaint.

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Let the Rich Try to Buy Back Their Youth

Let the Rich Try to Buy Back Their Youth

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