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From Eliyahu:

Shalom friends,

According to Silicon Valley "the death problem" can be solved, if only they throw enough money at it, and throwing money at it, they are. Funded by Silicon Valley elites, scientists and entrepreneurs are working on a variety of techniques, from attempting to stop cells from aging, to claimed DNA hacks, to theorizing about uploading the human mind into a computer, to injecting young blood into older people. All of these claims are dubious at best. For example, earlier this year the FDA denounced the transfusion of young blood into older people as quackery that is both ineffective and dangerous. I might add to that, expensive, costing $8,000 per treatment and up. It turns out you could make a lot of money if ever you really could solve the "death problem." [see reprint article below for more]

Some people feel pretty sure that science will eventually solve "the death problem" by unlocking the secret of immortality. The worry is, science can't give them immortality right now. The solution (some think) is cryonic freezing. Gizmodo explains:

"Corpse-freezing hasn’t exactly gone mainstream, but most people are now familiar with the concept: you lay out a ton of cash, sign some papers, and spend a couple post-death decades in a cutting-edge meat locker, calmly awaiting the conditions for your eventual revival. Over 300 cold, dead Americans—or dead, cold American brains, depending on which procedure they opted for (whole-body vs. brain-only)—can currently be found in storage facilities across the country. All of them took a gamble—one that was pretty cheap, metaphysically speaking: the worse case scenario here is just continued death. For the time being, that is also the only scenario. Only time will tell whether these extremely dead optimists will once more, someday, get stuck in traffic, and/or roam an uncanny Singularity-scape with their AI-abetted computer brains."

Unfortunately for the frozen dead, the cryonic freezing process itself destroys the body it is claiming to preserve! Dr. Joao Pedro de Magalhaes, coordinator of the UK Cryonics and Cryopreservation Research Network, put's it simply; "with today’s technology, cryonics severely damages the body’s cells." In other words, your body is far more complicated than a simple human popsicle. You can't be frozen and unfrozen and remain functional, even IF you could be revived. That means the last resort of warehousing your corpse in a giant freezer until science can grant you immortality won't get you there.

To those who are used to getting whatever they want in this technologically advanced era, this situation is simply intolerable! It is time to demand immortality! Raising public awareness of the problem should do the trick! "Our purpose is to unite a critical mass of like-minded people who support radical life extension and physical immortality in order to inspire revolutionary change in how radical life extension is viewed in our world." So says The Coalition for Radical Life Extension web site [rlecoalition[dot]com]. Of course, that organization of rich old people wanting to buy eternal life looks to science, and to their money, to bring them immortality. But really, how silly is that, to think that death can be overcome by some sort of public relations campaign? Are we not all painfully aware of death already? Death cannot be overcome by a popular vote, or that would have already happened a long time ago.

The "death problem" has not been solved by humans because even the fundamentals are far beyond us to scientifically define or to control. What is consciousness? What is life? What is death? On the level of common experience, we all know what these things are. That is not true at all on a scientific level.

One thing seems pretty clear though. There is a lot more to life and consciousness than data processing. To illustrate, the fastest supercomputer in the world as of 2018, the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, can process more data faster than other computers in the world. To appreciate how fast that is you have to know what FLOPS are. FLOPS stand for floating-point operations per second (FLOPS), that is, how many operations can be performed per second. petaFLOPS are a unit of computing speed equal to one thousand million million (10¹⁵) floating-point operations per second. Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer measures in at 125 petaFLOPS (theoretical peak)—five times as fast as the supercomputer competitor just below it. Its a safe bet that supercomputer can process number calculations faster than you can. Yet, it is not alive, nor is it conscious, in any meaningful sense of those words.

By the way, the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, fast as it is, is not even close to being as smart as you are - no computer is. The human brain is estimated to operate at about 1 exaFLOP (that's 1,000 petaFLOPS) - and look at the amazing size difference, not to mention the fact that you are alive and even our biggest computer is not! If anyone were to suggest that the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer evolved on its own with no intelligent designer or builder involved, we would know that's a lie just by looking at it. The human brain is far more advanced, so shouldn't the same logic apply? If this doesn't illustrate the reality of intelligent design I can't imagine what would!

Yes, we have an intelligent Creator, and He has told us that eternal life can be ours, but only through faith in His Son, Yeshua the Messiah. In fact, Yeshua proved he has power over death by raising His friend, Lazarus, from the dead - after Lazarus was already dead for four days! This is no myth, having been witnessed by onlookers and faithfully documented so that you and I can have hope. The point is, if He could raise Lazarus from the dead He can do the same for you! Want everlasting life? Look to the Source of life - look to Messiah!    

Shalom,

Eliyahu
Tsiyon.Org

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'Young blood' company Ambrosia halts patient treatments after FDA warning.

The FDA warned consumers against infusions of plasma from young donors, saying there is no evidence that they slow aging or memory loss, and can be dangerous.

Reprint from: NBCNews[dot]com, FEB. 19, 2019

A company that charged patients thousands of dollars for infusions of blood plasma from younger donors said Tuesday that it had stopped treating patients after the Food and Drug Administration warned consumers against such treatments, purported to prevent aging and memory loss.

The company, Ambrosia, said on its website that it had “ceased patient treatments.” The announcement came hours after the FDA issued a statement saying there is no proof that plasma from young donors can be used as a treatment for dementia, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease or post-traumatic stress disorder, as some companies have claimed.

The plasma infusions can also be dangerous, the agency added, because they are associated with infectious, allergic, respiratory and cardiovascular risks.

Be cautious about establishments in several states offering infusions of plasma from young donors as a treatment for a variety of conditions including normal aging and heart disease.

“We’re alerting consumers and health care providers that treatments using plasma from young donors have not gone through the rigorous testing that the FDA normally requires in order to confirm the therapeutic benefit of a product and to ensure its safety,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb, food and drug commissioner, and Dr. Peter Marks, director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in a statement.

The federal agency noted that several businesses offer infusions of plasma costing thousands of dollars per infusion for a variety of conditions. Such companies can often avoid FDA drug approval processes because plasma transfusions are a well-established procedure. Ambrosia, for example, had been charging $8,000 for one liter of blood and $12,000 for two as part of a clinical trial. The blood was donated by 16- to 25-year-olds to consumers ages 35 and older.

Ambrosia’s founder, Jesse Karmazin, 34, a Stanford Medical School graduate, launched the startup three years ago. In 2017, he began a clinical trial and touted impressive results, claiming that young plasma could prevent Alzheimer’s and lower blood cholesterol. But he never made the results of his study public.

Ambrosia isn’t the only company that aggressively marketed scientifically dubious potions to those desperate to preserve their youth.

Other medical establishments, such as the Maharaj Institute in Florida, have started expensive clinical trials and openly discussed plans to charge patients for transfusions of plasma from young donors. In fact, people considering enrolling said they had been told they would have to pay $285,000, STAT reported last March.

“Though the use of young plasma is promising and hopeful, there needs to be rigorous trials to ensure therapeutic benefits and safety standards for each indication of use,” said Dr. Sharon Sha, a neurologist at the Stanford Neuroscience Health Center in Palo Alto, California. “I also have concerns about 'for pay' sites that encourage participation by patients who are not aware of the risks and can be desperate for a cure.”

Plasma is the liquid part of blood that contains clotting factors, antibodies and other important proteins. Plasma infusions from young donors have been shown to have mildly positive results in Alzheimer's patients, according to a small Stanford University study.

Plasma transfusions are normally given to correct for blood-clotting deficiencies in patients who are bleeding. Plasma is not FDA-approved to treat other conditions, such as normal aging or memory loss.

“The administration of plasma for indications other than those recognized or approved by the FDA should be performed by a qualified investigator or sponsor who has an active investigational new drug application with the FDA,” the FDA said.

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Do you remember seeing this in our Remnant Tribes of Israel Seminar?

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