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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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[–] 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/