FDA Approves Human Trial to Reverse Aging?

In today's newsletter:

• FDA approves human trial to reverse aging?
• This sounds fake, but it’s true: water isn’t wet
• Rich-people toy or a control system for your health, focus, and money?

Scientists just crossed a line we’ve never crossed before. The FDA just approved a human test for something that sounds like sci-fi: reversing aging. A biotech company called Life Biosciences got the green light to start testing a cellular rejuvenation treatment on real people.

Not slowing aging, not managing symptoms: actually trying to turn old cells young again. And the first patients are being enrolled right now.

Scientists use three specific genes to basically hit a factory reset on cells. Your DNA stays the same, but the cells behave like they’re younger. This already worked in animals. Old mice that were going blind got their vision back in about four weeks. In another study, treated mice lived 109% longer than untreated ones.

Human trials are starting with eye diseases like glaucoma and optic nerve damage, because the eyes are easy to measure and aging shows up fast there. Results are expected as early as the end of this year.

Between you and I, do you think we're seeing a breakthrough, or just very good marketing?

This Sounds Fake, But It’s True: Water Isn’t Wet

Scientists say something most of us were taught our whole lives is technically wrong: water itself isn’t wet. According to chemists, wet only happens when a liquid sticks to a solid surface, like water on glass, clothes, or your skin.

Water can make other things wet, but it can’t make itself wet because water molecules mostly stick to each other, not to solids. That sticking-together force is why water forms droplets or beads up on waxed cars.

It gets stranger: The body doesn’t actually feel wet because we have no wet sensor in our skin. What you feel when you jump in a pool is your brain reacting to cold, pressure, and movement at the same time.

Your nervous system mixes those signals and labels them wet. When you dry off with a towel, you’re not magically removing wetness, you're just moving water away and letting it evaporate, which cools your skin and tricks your brain into thinking you’re dry.

So if water isn’t wet, what else do we feel that isn’t actually real?

Rich-People Toy Or a Control System for Your Health, Focus, and Money?

Most people think smart blinds are a rich-people toy, that’s wrong. This is about control, light controls your sleep. Sleep controls your health, and health controls your money and work performance.

If your blinds blast sunlight at 6 am, your sleep is cooked. If your place turns into an oven at noon, your AC bill explodes. Tools like RYSE, Google Nest, and Amazon Alexa automate light the same way alarms automate waking up.

This isn’t lazy, it’s removing friction. Tim Cook doesn’t wake up and manually opens blinds, neither do hedge fund guys. Systems beat willpower. Always!

Manual living is expensive: When you forget to close blinds, you waste energy. When your room is too bright or too hot, your focus drops. Lower focus = worse work = less money. Automated shades close when it’s hot, open when it’s cold, protect privacy at night, and make your house look occupied when you’re gone.

That’s lower bills, better sleep, fewer decisions, and less mental noise. If you automate food (DoorDash), thinking (Google), and communication (iPhone), automating light is one of the highest-ROI upgrades you can make to your life.

Disclaimer: This newsletter is for informational purposes only. Details may change or come from third-party sources; always do your own research and consult a qualified professional before making decisions.