When a piece of our modern technology breaks down we're not necessarily in a hurry to buy a replacement as it's often enough to just replace the worn out part that is causing the problems greatly stemming the life of say a coffee maker a microwave oven or even a car but what if in the same way we could prolong the life of a person replacing sick worn out organs with new ones after all according to whatever healthy way of life we didn't lead there's always some trader inside of us who first refuses to function properly thereby undermining the activity of the whole organism patients who need a transplant are forced to wait for years in line to get the desired organ when using official donor programs but what if you resort to the services of clandestine organ traders How much should you spend to achieve the maximum possible upgrade for your body a new shoulder and stomach can be acquired by laying out a measly five hundred bucks a skull with teeth or a gold bladder cost in the range of twelve hundred dollars if you have an extra fifteen hundred bucks you can pick out a nice pair of eyeballs or coronary artery whichever you prefer the costs of covering your body with new skin can be calculated by multiplying your body surface area in square inches by ten dollars the most expensive at the moment are those organs without which continued life easy impossible heart and liver can be bought from between one hundred nineteen and one hundred fifty seven thousand dollars and the price of a kidney may exceed the cost of an pass to Martin D.B.S. in layman's terms that means over two hundred fifty thousand dollars Alas I must dash your dreams of trading in one of your super flu is kidneys for a luxury car the indicated prices are for buyers donors of kidneys on average receive just about ten thousand dollars for their organ
One must agree such is very little compensation for. A possible reduction in lifespan so buying yourself new organs you need to fork out a minimum of say a half a million bucks and the black market by its very nature doesn't guarantee the highest quality of goods so you could easily end up back where you started but if you turn to official legal medicine then the numbers will be even more extreme a single heart can cost more than a million dollars And that's just the organ if we add to the cost of the organs the payment required for transplant services then the list of people who can afford such procedures will very quickly begin to resemble the list of Forbes richest one of the former participants on that list David Rockefeller had seven heart transplants and two kidney transplants during the last forty years of his life which helped him live to a quite link the one hundred in one years it was finally his eighth heart ceasing to function which caused the death of this long live billionaire but isn't it hard to limit on average transplanted kidneys and livers live or survive for about twenty years the longest lived continued life for a recipient after a heart transplant is thirty years so let's suppose you've managed to keep your organs healthy up to the age of seventy but now you need them replaced if you don't take into account all the other organs and processes of aging then in order to live to one thousand you would need thirty one heart transplants and forty seven liver and kidney transplants What do you think is it realistic to be able to earn so much money please leave your thoughts in the comments I'm really interested in hearing what you have to say.
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Unfortunately this makes them vulnerable to a whole different sorts of infections that swarm our planet and kidneys simply cannot withstand this treatment for long that's why Rockefeller needed to replace his kidneys twice if the well known billionaire had had every new heart survive to the maximum possible he might well have lived until the ripe old age of two hundred seventy two true he would have needed just two kidneys to survive this long he would have needed eleven provided that they also worked at their fixed maximum but what about other vital organs the brain according to scientists is able to live for up to two hundred years that is if we manage to keep the other organs in good running order possibility of an operation for a head transplant still remains only the object of scientific disputes in farfetched assumptions but what if the operation were successful would this result in a boom among the powerful of this world who want to prolong their lives in acquiring new bodies is it possible then that the world would be divided into two parts one of which would
simply be the raw material for extending the life of the second richer and stronger half of humanity after all for organ transplantation a large number of people need an equal number of donors of course you can use donors who become recently deceased but it's not every day that a person dies who's organs are ideally suited specifically to us it's much easier to find such organs among the far more numerous living human beings this problem could be solved by some of our smaller brethren specifically pigs in addition to being succulent and tasty bacon can give their organs for the extension of human lives a dying baboons who received a transplanted pig's heart was able to live happily for three additional years Chinese scientists whose. Which to using these genetically modified experimental pigs due to a ban on transplant research involving prisoners suggests that in the near future it will be possible to transplant pig organs into humans one might assume that first such purposes apes would be genetically closer and their organs more adaptable to humans but it turns out that pigs in addition to having excellent compatibility with humans differ in their cost of breeding In other words they're cheap and they lack the ability to evoke sympathy from animal rights activists although it should be noted that pig organs still suffer from the problem of rejection by the human immune system but what if we look at the problem deeper at the level of cells and not organs recipients who've received stem cells in addition to donor organs have managed to survive for a time without the usual kind of plea of drugs that suppress the immune system in such patients thanks to the stem cells of the donor a crime Eric immune system is formed in biology the kind there is not a mythical monster but an organism that consists of the carotid to really different cells Amazingly the donor immunity begins to work in tandem with that of the recipient organism which
Harvard's DONALD INGBER has developed devices that are populated with cells of variety of different organs such ships do not look like real organs obviously but they perform the same functions kidneys liver lungs and even intestines on chips have already been created it's possible that in the near future we may well transform over time into bio robots with silicon chips in place of our organs but what if all of these attempts to prolong life by all these different proposed methods are essentially meaningless What if everything is already pretty determined in my episode on maximum life expectancy I mention that under ideal conditions a person can live up to three hundred years many researchers believe that our aging and life expectancy are programmed at the genetic level but if this is so does that mean it might be possible to modify the D.N.A. thereby creating genetic mutants they can live longer researcher Michael Rose using specialized breathing techniques managed to fool the aging gene and make fruit flies survive to one hundred twenty days instead of their usual sixty by human standards this equals an increase in life of about two hundred years so our genes to blame for everything perhaps but the main reason that we age is believe it or not our breathing. Ross says oxidizes our cells thereby causing them to eventually wither and die does this mean we need to find an alternative to oxygen must we learn how to live without it in order to increase our span of years even if this is so I don't recommend chasing after this if I'm wrong dreaming just yet rather one should focus on one's quality of life and that of their loved ones psychologist Victor Frankl who survived a Nazi concentration camp claimed that only those people who felt they had something to live for survived.
Therefore if your life is fully realized and filled with meaning your body will find the strength necessary to fight off all challenges and will live as long as it takes to achieve your ultimate goals.
