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Would you take a cheap and effective once-a-day anti-aging pill? What if it were a suppository? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by festus@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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You can assume that for every day you take the pill you don't age that day - if you skip it for a day you age by a day.

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now we are getting into the finer details. I was only focusing on the individual level while taking into consideration what is already known regarding handling accrued trauma.

You mention a valid point when stating we are remarkably resilient. We are. Yet the truly resilient ones, like yourself, are comparatively few when considered how many break under duress.

Have you ever read this book?

It is obviously very outdated but when I first read it allowed me expand on the notion that our mind and body are more intimately connected and, by extension, infer that every single experience makes up a part of what we are, thus I defend that such a long life span would pose such a burden to handle.

[–] Blake@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I’m no more resilient than average, heck I’m definitely less resilient than average, I think you’re just underestimating just how strong humans are and how capable we are to just get on with our lives.

I haven’t read that book, sorry!

I did a quick bit of searching online and found out some interesting stuff about how people tend to report positive outcomes from trauma more often than negative outcomes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8827649/