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I don't think the motive is to make it easy. I think the motive is to make it highly profitable for someone.

I feel like both can be true – the motivation here is likely to both solve a real problem (aging and all that's associated with it) and to make some profit as a result.

This is ultimately a product like any other. Like a SaaS product making any hard process easy, you wouldn't expect the solution to be wholly free. People would still have the option to take a different route (caloric restriction) to accomplish the same, but it's clear many people struggle with that.

Making hard things easy can be lucrative. Markets work because they align incentives like that.

If your goal is actually improving the health of people, making money on it can be a case of not aligning incentives. It can be a case of actively undermining your stated goal.

X solution: Actually makes people healthy, doesn't make you rich. Gets no press because it's not making you rich.

Y solution: Kind of, sort of addresses some health issue, but at the price of terrible, horrifying side effects. Also: Makes someone rich. Gets all the promotion while no one hears anything about the cheap solution that doesn't come with horrifying side effects and a huge literal price tag.

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