Speaking to an audience at the New York Times Dealbook conference, Thiel insisted that he has never injected himself with the blood of a younger person in an effort to extend his own life.
Questions have plagued Thiel about his interest in life-extension therapies for years. In 2016, the now-defunct Gawker website claimed that it had received an unverified tip that the billionaire spends $40,000 per quarter to receive an "infusion of blood from an 18-year-old based on research conducted at Stanford on extending the lives of mice."I want to publicly tell you that I'm not a vampire. On the record, I am not a vampire.
Gawker also cited a 2009 essay by Thiel in which he wrote that he didn't buy into the "the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual." In a 2012 interview with CBS, Thiel went further:
Those comments prompted Gawker to suggest that the businessman's "vision of the world is based on the idea that nothing, not even his own body, should limit the power or potential of Peter Thiel."There are all these people who say that death is natural, it's just part of life, and I think that nothing can be further from the truth.
Thiel has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the research activities of gerontologist Aubrey de Grey who is on a mission to convince the world to embrace the idea that aging in the traditional manner is not an inevitability.
Speaking at the conference on Thursday, Thiel said he believes "there's a lot that can be done" and his major concern is that science is "just not trying hard enough." He said he believes there is a "cultural problem" in that investors are biased against taking too much risk in science and opt for small rewards instead of big breakthroughs.
Thiel said a balance needed to be struck between being too pessimistic and too optimistic. "I think the healthy attitude is not a halcyon like optimism but is sort of somewhere in between and that what we need to do is resist acceptance, resist denial, we need to just fight," he said.
Why would this be necessary, when ones own blood can have regenerative properties. I suspect, it's just wishful thinking by those people that think they can live forever, by whatever means necessary.
Have I got news for them, they are living a life of delusion, nobody lives forever, if that was the case, surely with all this so called "modern science" we could have come closer to eternal life.
Why don't we have the most forward thinkers and philosophers of the ancient age living with us right now when we need them (well they are available in books, but who reads now, and not only that, they could be be banned because they are not PC).
SOTT Focus:Autohemotherapy: Re-Activating Your Body's Natural Capacity to Heal
Autohemotherapy is a concept attributed to Dr. Paul Ravaut at the beginning of the last century (1912) which involves the injection of blood withdrawn from your arm using a syringe and needle -...Who needs a vampire, when the human body that is a miracle in itself, has the ability to heal itself.