Tech billionaires used performance drugs in secret. Now they're selling a revolution.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

LAS VEGAS - This past week, in a city built on risk and reward, billionaire biohacker Christian Angermayer went about his wellness routine.

He injected himself with weight loss drugs, testosterone, and legal-but-off-label growth hormones, designed to reduce deep layers of fat and regenerate his cells. To feel more outgoing, he added the peptide oxytocin, typically used by doctors to stimulate labor. For focus, he popped a pill of his usual stimulant, normally prescribed for sleep apnea. He logged tens of thousands of steps, sprinting to meetings at his hotel and doing circles around a large swimming pool.

Angermayer was getting ready to show the world that the experimental health protocols embraced by longevity-obsessed business elites like himself can work for top athletes - and, ultimately, the entire world.

Angermayer, who at 48 looks a decade younger, is the co-founder and funder of the Enhanced Games, a Silicon Valley-backed athletic tournament that breaks a cardinal rule of sports by encouraging athletes to take steroids, hormones, peptides and any legal performance-enhancing drug.

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/tech-billionaires-used-performance-drugs-114724926.html

[wcmagumba]

1. That seems really crazy and weird to me...I don't believe in billionaires...

They want to live forever...ugh...

[hlthe2b]

2. Three words: Long Term Effects... None of the drugs used are meant to be 1. combined;

2. used long term continuously; and 3. not monitored--even over the (relatively) short term.

We know high dose testosterone supplementation can predispose to testicular cancer. We don't know the potential for GLP-1 drugs to have any carcinogenic effects over the long term, as we only have fairly short term safety studies (and even those are continuing to show BOTH benefits and serious side effects). Oxytocin is naturally occurring, of course, but it was never meant to be used in this manner, so...?

But, hey, Mr. Billionaire. Be your own guinea pig as you wish. Just don't be pushing this on anyone else sans rigorous studies.

[Arthur_Frain]

4. Late night class action lawsuits are already starting to show up for wegovy

Seems early to me, but time is passing faster I swear.

I have no doubt there are unmonitored drug interactions and long term effects.

On the other hand, everything can be cured with beef tallow and cane sugar.

Living in a Chinese cursed world mashed with Barnum $ Bailey capitalist philosophy on its own set of steroids.

Definitely an interesting time to be alive.

[RussBLib]

6. Some wegovy takers having "eye strokes"

…causing blindness. Oh, damn, I just wanted to lose some weight.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[Arthur_Frain]

7. I can't be too critical.

I mean I had LASIK in 1999 to correct appalling blindness, so I understand the concept of “there’s a proven medical procedure to fix what’s wrong with me, and why shouldn’t I do it?”

Slightly different take on it now that I’m much older, but I remember the frustration of feeling cheated because I got a “bum deal”. I also remember being in my 20’s, everything was more urgent.

We’re a species looking for a “quick fix” to what ails us. There’s a long list of stuff we’ve bought into that frankly, we should have known better.

[multigraincracker]

3. Drugs and money.

More is never enough.

[orthoclad]

10. richest, most powerful men in the world

dabbling in strong behavior-altering drugs: what could go wrong?

[RussBLib]

5. I was kinda hoping that....

…that 48-year-old fanatic had dropped dead of something or other. It could happen.

I prefer “everything in moderation” but we’ll all be dead anyhow.

https://russblib.blogspot.com/?m=1

[highplainsdem]

8. Silicon Valley-backed. The tech lords expect AI to make them immortal someday, and they're

desperate to stay as youthful and healthy as possible until then.

[The Madcap]

9. When you keep the pedal to the floor,

even with the best maintenance, eventually you'll burn out the engine. Mixing pills like that and driving hard is a very bad idea.

[GenThePerservering]

11. "Angermayer, who at 48 looks a decade younger"

actually, he really doesn't. He dyes his hair and has a skin routine, and that's about it. All that crap he's chugging into his system isn't doing him any good.

[GreatGazoo]

12. Thanks for this - Writing a ripped-from-the-headlines film

Logline: After being targeted for organ harvesting by an unscrupulous billionaire, a squeaky clean athlete tries to self-pollute his way to freedom.

I need to show various extreme ways that the billionaire is trying to biohack his way to eternal life so I am gathering true stories and anecdotes. The more dubious but true the better.

Related: when I worked for a company that had a major biopharmaceutical company as a client, some international sports entities were trying to pressure them to put testable markers in one of their products that boosts red blood cell production. The drug had become popular in endurance sports and was undetectable in their blood tests. So, due to this off label illegal use, they wanted the pharma company to add junk to it. The company flatly declined to do so. The legit use of the drug most frequently involves people who are immune compromised and/or have liver impairments so the drug was designed to avoid any further stress on the patients' filtering systems.

[Vinca]

13. When he suddenly drops dead, how will they spin it? Bound to happen.