PayPal co founder Peter Thiel and early inverstor in Facebook is Trump’s biggest “tech” supporter.
Most of the tech community is opposed to Donald Trump. Trumps outspoken opponents even include Meg Whitman, foundng CEO of PayPal, and former GOP candidate for governor of California. So Thiel’s endorsement is an interesting choice. Mr. Thiel was a delegate for Donald Trump spoke at the 2016 Republican National Convention. He was also the only openly gay speaker the convention.
Unfortunately Thiel is obsessed with defying death and extending the human lifespan. He has injected funds into startups that are experimenting with ways to forestall the body’s inevitable decline and death.In an interview with Inc.com’s Jeff Bercovici, Thiel said that the practice — known as parabiosis — is the closest modern science has come to creating an anti-aging panacea.
A California company called Ambrosia is conducting human trials in which healthy people aged 35 or older receive transfusions of blood plasma from people under 25. Participants pay $8,000 to take part and their health is closely monitored for the two years they receive the transfusions. Participants must live in or have the means to travel to Monterey, CA.
Ambrosia preparing for the first test procedure to rejuvenate people with the help of blood plasma. The founder of the company,Jesse Karmazin will infuse plasma from volunteers under 25 years years old. 600 people will pay eight thousand dollars to receive 1.5 liters of plasma for two days. the participants must pay to cover the costs of obtaining plasma from the blood Bank, laboratory tests, insurance and the approval of the bioethics Commission. The experiment, however, has been criticized because there is no clinical evidence that the tests may be successful in humans. In addition, Tony Wyss-Koray is the author of the study of infusion into mice, 2014, which had shown a beneficial effect of the blood of young mice . He has said that companies are abusing the trust of the people and create unnecessary social unrest.
Ambrosia’s founder Jesse Karmazin told Bercovici that participants experience a reversal of aging systems across every major organ system. Furthermore, the results appear to be long-lasting, he said, if not permanent.
“The effects seem to be almost permanent,” Karmazin said. “It’s almost like there’s a resetting of gene expression.”
There are rumors that some wealthy individuals in Silicon Valley are doing courses of parabiosis, but Thiel said last year that he hadn’t “quite, quite, quite started yet.” A spokesman for Thiel capital said that nothing has changed since then.
Gawker reported that it received a tip claiming Thiel “spends $40,000 per quarter to get an infusion of blood from an 18-year-old based on research conducted at Stanford on extending the lives of mice.”
Thiel is locked in a grudge match with Gawker after the website outed him as gay in 2007. Resenting the intrusion into his private life, Thiel quietly funded a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the website by pro wrestler Hulk Hogan.
The lawsuit was successful and Gawker is now struggling against bankruptcy and is due to go up for auction later this summer. On Monday, Gawker editor in chief Nick Denton filed for personal bankruptcy after a Florida court refused to grant him an emergency stay on the verdict.