Russian scientists have been tasked with developing anti-aging treatments.
The Moscow Times reports that Russia’s Ministry of Health has pressed research institutes to provide immediate updates on their efforts to combat aging, cognitive decline, and osteoporosis, as well as to strengthen the immune system.
"We were asked to urgently send all of our developments, and the letter arrived, let’s say, today, but everything had to be sent yesterday," one researcher told Meduza.
The urgency is reportedly driven by Mikhail Kovalchuk, a 77-year-old scientist and close friend of Putin. Kovalchuk, who heads the Kurchatov Nuclear Research Institute and has ties to a state-funded genetics program that includes Putin’s eldest daughter, endocrinologist Maria Vorontsova, is said to be leading the push for life-extension research.
"The big boss set the task, and officials rushed to implement it in every possible way," according to a Kremlin insider.
Kovalchuk is described as being "obsessed with eternal life."
Stalin may have lived longer. He had a heart attack that may have been able to be survived, but no doctor in the room would treat him. It's debated if it was due to fear of punishment if they failed, or due to everybody wanting that asshole to die.
Either way, he may have lived 20 more years if doctors did something besides nothing.
That being said, maybe todays russian doctors will be equally helpful. That is to say, they do nothing if something goes wrong.
I propose that the ruzzians come up with volunteer doctors for putin. And sure, let's try anything and everything these guys come up with...on putin! You know, to extend his life! I heard lemons are good for life injection!
Yeah I think that one is still pretty far away. The degradation of the DNA in all the various cells of your body over time is a pretty formidable challenge.
Aging is a lot more complex than one molecule breaking down (we have built-in DNA repair equipment), and most of the mechanisms are still unknown, so it's hard to say.
Ancient Chinese medicine always works, trust me bro, just take a bunch of mercury every day. The Chinese did it before and that dude has an amazing tomb now so it's all cool. Just do it.
I am wondering whether any analysts at the CIA or similar agencies picked up on this years ago in his psychological profile (i.e., the narcissism, paranoia, germophobia, lack of a succession plan, and such) and started making plans. Perhaps there’s a biotech startup in, say, Serbia or somewhere, funded in 2007 with opaquely sourced seed money, “researching” “cellular de-aging” or something, with convincingly faked tests giving just enough promise. The research is fake, of course, and the business is meant as bait to be acquired by a Kremlin entity or one of Putin’s human-wallet oligarchs, at which point Putin’s fate is in the hands of whatever spooks are controlling it.