Bryan Johnson· Author
it used to be that in your pursuit of fitness and health, you could take some supplements and they had these very small upsides, they were very contextual, you had to be you know, like if you're not deficient in vitamin D more vitamin D doesn't help you arguably can become toxic, so on, and so forth, and then you could do the basics of actually eating well, and doing fitness, and all that stuff, but the conversation about pharmaceutical intervention and enhancement was like, you met Metformin might do some things, but it's very small effect, and most people don't need it blah, blah, blah, and then there's like anabolic steroids, and growth hormone which are like oh, they work, but the side effect profile is bigger than it's a laundry list, it's worse than the main effect