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Pass the bong.

Or a bunch of morons who have completely lost touch with reality on account of having unchallenged absolute power for far too long.

Yeah although these guys have access to an unlimited supply of freshly harvested organs which puts a different spin on it.

Even better, you know these guys love their Scotch. Lets see how long they can go without indulging after they get that new liver

You never know. Friend of mine had a liver transplant and was completely off the immunosuppressants in 18 months, never took 'em again.

There are current studies about growing entire organs in a lab environment using 3D printed scaffolding and stem cells harvested from the patient, so the final product is 100% compatible and eliminates the need for immunosuppressants.

Still a few decades out for human testing imo but they'd be the first in line.

If we figure that out, artificial blood (which is already making good progress) and finally a way to regenerate brain cells without causing massive brain tumors we can extend life considerably, probably closer to 200 years on extreme cases.

Or, at least, making it to 110 while still having a good quality of life, basically making 100 the new 60.

I think if ALL, literally ALL of your other organs were functioning great, then it is unlikely your brain will deterioriate by itself randomly. Your body is constantly repairing itself, that's why we are able to live so long.

But like, are they REALLY going to transplant things like the thymus? Can they even do that? Adrenal glands, parathyroid glands, thyroid, kidneys, livers, pancreas - idk man, I do not see these people getting all these organs replaced. That is an INSANE bodily experiment that has never truly been tested, let alone with lab grown organs (as Xi or Putin suggested), let alone in elderly and delicate subjects. We can't even pull off natural looking facelifts in most subjects.

Adding in organs with different ages and donors also means they also may have increased loads on their remaining old aged organs too. Everything works together and donor organs can have a different circadian rhythm, let alone different genes which means different reactions to stimuli. Not to mention currently the most likely situation for organ transplant would be gene editing animal organs - again, experimental and never done on multiple organs. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/first-genetically-edited-pig-kidney-transplanted-human

Like managing multiple organ rejections in a 90yr old seeking immortality sounds like a joke of a case for any health care provider.

But please, someone convince both those men to get multiple organs transplanted ASAP

You want to go to the Island.

Ever read House of the Scorpion? It predicted this exact situation yeaaaaars ago, good read too

You know, its crazy how many times I've heard this rumor floated relative to the very real organ harvesting business that's been happening in Israel since the 1990s

Death Cab for Putie.

Intelligence isn't required of these people and I doubt anyone in that room could explain telomere shortening and aging at a molecular level.

You cant do a brain transplant from a clone and be the same person even. Just megalomaniacs who care nothing for anyone but themselves.

It's weird because Xi is a chemical engineer. Putin and Kim I understand being gullible and clueless about scientific matters but I don't expect the same from Xi.

I would expect nothing or much more than 150. You only live as long as the weakest links in your body. Solving one isn't going to get ypu to 150. And if you solve enpugh to get to 150, you should live a lot longer.

I honestly believe people could live to 150 within the next century

It's a fun and easy thing to believe. Significantly harder to accomplish.

I don’t expect those advances to be soon enough to help either of these guys

They've already benefited substantively from the last 70 years of health technology. And I wouldn't be surprised of Xi, in particular, is enjoying some knock-on effects of being the head of state in a nation that's on the cutting edge of medical research.

But there's a huge difference between "living to 100" and "being a functional adult at age 100". Xi's already pushing the line in his 70s and should have been queuing up a successor two terms ago. Putin's in it even worse, having trotted out Medeved and watched him flop in front of Parliament back in... what? 2008? Now he's got the tiger by the tail as he coasts into his own golden years.

The fact that the US is floundering amidst its own techno-fascist gerentocracy should be a giant alarm bell for every other national government. You can't just stack the fate of your country on whether Chucks Grassley and Schumer can maintain a pulse indefinitely. But I guess when its your turn in the big chair, its easy to think you'll live forever.

I don’t see why they can’t live 150 years with that.

The reason is typically measured in caliber.