It comes out of a modern immortality mythology. This myth is that by manipulating our genome we will be able to become super healthy, healing all diseases, while reaching maximum happy and healthy life span.
But wait, does this also mean we can continue eating junk foods and drinking booze, and still be super healthy? Big pharma drugs on TV seem to be pushing that idea...
So continue putting toxins in our bodies, get a few super cool genetic modifications, and become super men and women?
The fountain of youth mythology appears in various guises as long ago as the 5th century BC Greece.
We modern technological humans tend to think mythology belonged only to the ancients. And the fact we have science proves it! The end of mythology!
Yeah, not so fast Oglethorpe, mythology abounds in the age of science, and the two exist side by side, in fact getting along together very nicely.
But science works and mythology doesn't, right?
Absolutely, the problem being mythology is frequently called science well before being proven. Or worse, called proven when that is not the case, or half-assed "proven", as is so often the case with all those drugs on TV.
All drugs have side effects, and is frequently the case they are six of one, half dozen the other. Meanwhile the cause of health (it's a real thing) has only benefits and no drawbacks. A perceived drawback, the one stopping most people from becoming healthy, is having to give up delicious foods.
What? No sugar or salt?
Guess what? Give them up and taste buds go back to being sensitive the way they are in new people. And then something wonderful happens, sensitive buds taste more variety.
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