Longevity labs, "immortality islands" and grapeseed pills are part of China's national project to conquer aging, despite sometimes shaky science and extravagant claims. When a Chinese state television microphone recently caught China supremo Xi Jinping and Russia President Vladimir Putin musing about the possibility of living to 150 and perhaps even forever, many eyebrows were raised. But there has been no tut-tutting in the laboratory of Lonvi Biosciences, a longevity medicine start-up in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. "Living to 150 is definitely realistic," said Lyu Qinghua, whose company has developed anti-aging pills based on a compound found in grapeseed extract. "In a few years, this will be the reality." He is skeptical about modern medicine defeating death entirely, something Mr. Putin said was possible with organ transplants, but he thinks that longevity science is advancing so fast even the seemingly impossible might come to pass.

"In five to 10 years, nobody will get cancer," Lyu Qinghua predicted. The search for the elixir of life, embraced with gusto in recent years by American tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison, has been underway in China for more than two millenniums. It started with the first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, who ordered a nationwide hunt for death-defying potions. Centuries ago Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) was much more advanced than Western medicine which practiced blood-letting or thought evil spirits caused ailments. TCM considered blood transfusions as a treatment for psoriasis. In the modern era, China has been nefariously harvesting organs from executed prisoners. Source: Organ Harvesting in China. Organ prices in China: Anatomical Chart.

Globally, billionaires and oligarchs can easily acquire needed organs from unfortunate and involuntary donors to extend their lives.

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