I had a great idea for helping elderly people, especially arthritis. despite how old you are does not matter because regardless, one day most of us will become old. Moon base. Gravity on the moon i slower, which means less weight on joints. What if we create a moon colony for old people that have these sort of conditions. I doubt it is currently economical, but at some point it may be. Why give out all these prescriptions when an easy solution would be to turn gravity lower. And would it be bad ass when you are old to be on the moon, smoking a lil bud, and watching the fucking world. That would be fucking epic.
Who's gonna pay for it? What if you're young and have arthritis? (Me) and the pharma companies would never allow it
You are tuck in the past. In the future, we won't grow old! Seriously though would about transitioning into marine animals? Why go to the moon when we have a giant ocean right here. Swimming is a lot easier on the joints too.
Despite your horrible grammar I have decoded what you said to be "Why not turn our old people into marine animals and make them live in the ocean" The fuck? Some grannys cant even walk up steps alone let alone fucking swin in the ocean and compete with predators like sharks and shit ... lmao
Arthritis is caused by an autoimmune disease. Gravity doesnt have any effect on it at all. The best way to prevent arthritis is to consume lots of animal cartilage/collagen. There are certain receptors in your gastrointestinal tract that work to detect foreign invaders. If something is relatively new to your diet then you're body may not recognize it and thus treat it like a pathogen, but if you consume something regularly then it becomes recognized as friendly. Consuming lots of cartilage/collagen acts to make your body recognize cartilage/collagen as friendly and that applies to the cartilage that already makes up your joints. The autoimmune response is never activated because your body never sees the tissue as a threat.
You don't think you owe it to your older self to help yourself later by helping yourself now. Save the money, by a one way ticket to the old people space club. It doesn't have to be paid by taxpayers, but remember you will be old one day.
It was more for joint pain, back pain, and gravity related pains. Back hurts because you spine can't support the weight anymore. If you didn't weigh as much, it would be easier to hold up your back which means it wont hurt as much. Astronauts who stay in space for a while have joint pain when they return to earth because it is more weight on their joints. I figured it would make sense to reverse it. Going from lower to higher gravity creates joint pain, maybe the same is true for the exact opposite. I wouldn't doubt it would relieve some pain.
There are over 100 types of arthritis, and many types are not considered by medical science to be an an autoimmune disease, or caused by one.
The elderly's joints would become weaker when exposed to conditions involving lower gravity. It would lead to more accidents overtime. It's like wearing a shoe with arch support. In the short term you're fine but you slowly lose arch strength and eventually injure yourself because of it.
There are over 200 types if you want to be a technical ass about it but all are still caused by the body attacking itself.
Their joints are fucked either way. Lower gravity would put less stress on them making it easier to be mobile, to whatever extent they can be mobile.
[quote name='"LSYouTiger"']Moon base Gravity on the moon i slower, which means less weight on joints. What if we create a moon colony for old people that have these sort of conditions. I doubt it is currently economical, but at some point it may be. Why give out all these prescriptions when an easy solution would be to turn gravity lower.[/quote] Is that you Newt?
That's just treating the symptoms not the problem. Apply what you know of economics to health. This idea is akin to the fed doing qe4
we will cure arthritis before that becomes cost effective. a retirement home or 2 on the moon is a descent idea. to bad thats about 70 years away, so maybe it will workout for me
Or they could smoke a couple j's. Here's a thought. I wish society was less afraid of death. I wish it was a common practice to realize your life is done and you are more of a burden at a certain age. Not like everyone dies at say 80 but just common to do it. Suicide would have to be legal though