Robert Fried
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actors that you better copyright your name and your likeness and your sound because it's going to get used at some point.
It's wild.
Yeah, I mean this idea of downloading all the information that is you onto a hard drive or something, does that hard drive have rights?
Is that a human?
Is that a person?
Is it you?
I do think we're entering into an interesting phase and it certainly will have an impact on the longevity as an industry.
and an impact.
But in terms of biological interventions that we know of today, there's a lot of discussion about molecules like rapamycin or metformin or other things.
I'm skeptical that any of those are actually going to
prolong life or stall the aging process, but what NAD elevation does, if you have a molecule that can safely elevate NAD, is it makes the cell more resilient and it enables the cell to deal with the conditions that emerge.
There was one other thing that I wanted to say that I think NAD is, if you don't mind, that NAD I think is particularly valuable for, and that is fatigue, this idea of energy metabolism.
There are a number of conditions and diseases that people contract that the symptoms are fatigue, exhaustion.
There's like Lyme disease and mononucleosis and
We were approached by some researchers at Mass General Harvard about long COVID.
Long COVID is this really interesting disease because in order to be diagnosed with long COVID, you have to test negative for COVID.
So it's one of the few diseases that in order to have, you have to test negative.
But the symptoms are, and so it's very difficult to know if you actually have it.
But the predominant symptom is fatigue.
There's also this thing called brain fog, and there's depression, and there's sleep issues.