very entertaining writing style

Now this is the kind of content I come to Hacker News for.

> Appears to not age but also to never have been young

/me snorts

Honestly, the surest sign of the existence of vampires to me would be a class of investors with extremely anomalous discount rates, suggesting that they are operating on inhumanly long time horizons, combined with a particular interest in real estate, as first documented in the field's seminal publication (Stoker, 1897).

If interested in rejuvenation, I would suggest investigating LEVF's Robust Mouse Rejuvenation.

RMR1 done and shows promise, RMR2 started recently.

This is a fun story from the early 18th century if you haven't read about it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_St._Germain

Interesting... I first went to the linked recent post What the Longevity Experts Don't Tell You. Sorry to be harsh: it was nonsense. It just lists a few weird, unscientific behaviours of John D Rockefeller and tries to draw lessons (to what end? longevity? is Rockefeller still alive?) from them despite there being no indication those behaviors even had any effect, let alone positive impact on longevity. It also doesn't bring up things "the longevity experts don't tell you," it's just summaries of topics in a single biography.

Still I gave this article a shot. I don't understand what it's doing. Like, one of the points about Thiel is that he destroyed Gawker to cover up his vampirism. He actually destroyed Gawker to cover up his relationship to Epstein, the pedophile and saboteur of US social/economic integrity. Why put a silly spin on that? I guess the entire thing is just a little joke... just doesn't feel like it belongs on the HN front page. I had higher expectations.

I hope the old vampire Dons give some fashion advice to the new guys, e.g. “A vampire doesn’t wear Arc’teryx“.

Hope the author has some garlic silverware lying around after such a revealing article

The article misses the simplest technique:

Just donate blood as often as possible. This results in a loss of cholesterol, other bad lipoproteins, excess iron in those who have it, and PFAS toxins. It is frequency-dependently associated with longevity.

Whole blood donation avoids the plastic lining of plasma donations, with the latter undesirably transferring unwanted microplastics into the body.

For those with a sufficient spare money, instead of donating blood, just get various blood tests every other week, additively comparable to a donation if the tests are substantial.

Granted, this is antithetical to being a vampire, but you will still have to make up for it by supplemental sufficient healthy nutrients to allow your body to quickly restore the lost blood.

>The public begins to associate blood transfusion with eccentric billionaires rather than with undead predators. This is a critical narrative shift.

Not much of a shift...

Why am I reading this in Freddie Mercury's signing voice?

Completely OT: In the link “what the longevity experts don’t tell you”[1] I found this:

“As a devout Baptist, he couldn’t use playing cards…”

And I’m wondering if I missed something in my Baptist upbringing. I have long since removed myself from any semblance of the Church and manage my own relationship with faith and any related higher beings, so it’s more a curiosity than pertinent.

1 - https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/

>They drink blood because their own blood accumulates factors that accelerate aging, and they need to periodically dilute it. Feeding isn’t nutrition. It’s dialysis.

This seems to be the emerging consensus. When you get older your metabolism creates all kinds of crap that circulates in the blood.

You would like to have boosted kidneys parallel to real ones that can detect and remove all the slightly wrong proteins.

Big if true :P