Is she based?

As much as aging is a big thorn in our side, it is also a major force of innovation and ultimately makes our society (more or less) sustainable.

I cannot even start to imagine the social and economic implications of a noticeably longer lifespan. I'm all for the research, but making it affordable for everyone would be a fucking desaster.

>I cannot even start to imagine the social and economic implications of a noticeably longer lifespan.

what about not having to spend trillions on old people healthcare because everyone is young

>it is also a major force of innovation and ultimately makes our society (more or less) sustainable.

nah.

Seriously? She "performed experiment" on herself in some 3rd world country, came back and claimed "big success". And she'll open a clinic in a fucking Fiji, outside of any regulation, to perform therapies on other people for big $. If this doesn't trigger bullshit alert for you, maybe you're on a wrong board.

She would never be allowed to do it in the US or a country with similarly strict regulations.

She's 45 and looks pretty youthful for it desu. Could pass for 35

> tfw no genetically engineered gf

A best what?

She could pass for having had botox.

> implying she doesn't look natural as fuck

she's pretty based brah

>outside of any regulation
stop licking those regulatory boots
and get up off your knees

Not to forget, thousands of people die or suffer negative side-effects every year from complications caused by medication which has FDA approval, and most FDA-approved drugs (97% or so) don't actually *cure* any ailments; they're only palliative or ameliorative. Very few drugs actually cure people.

Not to mention the fact that it costs several billion dollars to get a single drug through the FDA, for a single indication. The level of regulation is now so high that it takes years and costs billions of dollars to get one mediocre treatment for a single disease to market. Thousands of people are dying every day waiting for cures which aren't available - gene therapy can provide those cures. The genes code for the proteins, and the proteins make us - the cure is in the code. Fix the code and you fix the person.

I though she used her drugs just recently, so we wont know until some time pass.

She took the gene therapies in September 2015. First results were announced in April 2016, and 1-year results are expected in September/October.

eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/brf-fgt042116.php

Here is an image from her Google+ profile, dated 2013 (aged ~42, two years before she took the gene therapy)

Here is an image from early 2016, aged 45, ~6 months after she took the gene therapy.

This picture is from the last few weeks, I believe.

So far, results indicate that her telomeres have been elongated by a few hundred base pairs, from 6.71 kilobases to 7.33 kilobases.

> bioviva-science.com/2016/04/21/first-gene-therapy-successful-against-human-aging/

> Elizabeth Parrish, CEO of Bioviva USA Inc. has become the first human being to be successfully rejuvenated by gene therapy, after her own company’s experimental therapies reversed 20 years of normal telomere shortening.

> Telomere score is calculated according to telomere length of white blood cells (T-lymphocytes). This result is based on the average T-lymphocyte telomere length compared to the American population at the same age range. The higher the telomere score, the “younger” the cells.

> In September 2015, then 44 year-old CEO of BioViva USA Inc. Elizabeth Parrish received two of her own company’s experimental gene therapies: one to protect against loss of muscle mass with age, another to battle stem cell depletion responsible for diverse age-related diseases and infirmities.

> In September 2015, telomere data taken from Parrish’s white blood cells by SpectraCell‘s specialised clinical testing laboratory in Houston, Texas, immediately before therapies were administered, revealed that Parrish’s telomeres were unusually short for her age, leaving her vulnerable to age-associated diseases earlier in life.

> In March 2016, the same tests were taken again by SpectraCell revealed that her telomeres had lengthened by approximately 20 years, from 6.71kb to 7.33kb. This implies that Parrish’s white blood cells (leukocytes) have become biologically younger. These findings were independently verified by the Brussels-based non-profit HEALES (HEalthy Life Extension Company), and the Biogerontology Research Foundation, a UK-based charity committed to combating age-related diseases.

But telomeres could not be the only reason of aging, am i right?

Indeed - there are a number of other problems, including the accumulation of cellular damage, cellular senescence, the building up of misfolded proteins, accumulation of atherosclerotic plaque etc. Telomere attrition is one aspect of biological ageing, which this first telomerase induction gene therapy is designed to address - the company is planning to develop and offer further gene therapy products in the near future.

As well as a telomerase induction gene therapy, she also took a myostatin inhibitor gene therapy to combat the effects of age-related sarcopenia. I believe formal results from this are still forthcoming, though she has personally expressed that her muscle mass is increased.

This is probably the best interview with her; just under an hour long, it includes discussion of her motivation for taking such a large risk with her own health (involving an emotional discussion of her young son's illness - her voice breaks and she is visibly emotional at 19:45 and 21:25 - you can tell that this is a personal mission, not just a money-making thing for her), what the treatment involved, and what her plans are for the future.

> youtube.com/watch?v=toNjsvbX0f0

Watch 21:00 - 25:00 of this video and tell me she's not sincere.

> youtube.com/watch?v=toNjsvbX0f0

Whether she's right or wrong is not conclusively known at this point - but I do not believe that she is insincere. I don't think she's out to scam anyone.

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I mean, she can either save us all, or doom our society. i mean, of course gene therapy for a long time will be only aviable for rich people, and so on. Imagine if someone powerfull, someone scary somehow took only for himself this secret of eternal (or longer) life time.

He can rule the world with his immortality. Now all dictators at least can die someday, so there is a possibility for good changes, but what if one dictator can become immortal.

Scary shit.

> of course gene therapy for a long time will be only available for rich people

Just like genome sequencing?

$3.4bn for the first genome, $100,000 a few years later, $10,000 a few years after that, and now $1,000.

By 2020, it'll cost $100.

I doubt she's that good an actress. And her back-story checks out - she has been involved in stem cell advocacy and so on for a number of years.

>assuming assumptions
>predicting predictions
kek'd

>Not to mention the fact that it costs several billion dollars to get a single drug through the FDA, for a single indication. The level of regulation is now so high that it takes years and costs billions of dollars to get one mediocre treatment for a single disease to market.
True.

And that is why in some countries they takle some rather scary shortcuts. Also US companies have been caught pants down.

Since these things are happening outside the US very few are even talking about it. Not that it is a secret, there have been court cases.

>>what about not having to spend trillions on old people healthcare because everyone is young
>young
>health

you are some stupid fat twat

> now all dictators at least can die someday, so there is a possibility for good changes, but what if one dictator can become immortal

Dictators generally don't die of old age - it's a pretty risky job.