Here is a funny story an ENT resident told me sometime ago. It happened in the1st City Hospital in Moscow, Russia. It is actually a very good hospital in terms of staff experience. Though buildings are 100 years old. Doesn't matter.

So, resident is on-call. It's midnight. Ambulance rolls in. A man: U-U-U, M-M-M. Something metal is sticking out of his mouth.

OK. It turns guy was at home. Probably drinking.

Those stories about Russians and vodka are partially true.

Partially.

For example, I don't drink at all, even beer. Just don't drink. Though, Russians are different. We all are.

I knew some guys who drunk 3 bottles of vodka a day for week straight. Those stories about American colleges, where a student brags that seven people drunk a box of beer and vomited half night, are nothing.

Kids.

Russia is Land of Extreme.

Russians drink in company usually. It is considered not healthy to drink alone. Should be three.

Americans have their parties. Russians have their parties.

It's cold in Russia, you know. People are genetically healthier. So they can trash their bodies. To equalize.

Then they talk about soul, self-respect, and world-wide problems. About Africa, for example. Or about importance of Daosizm for international culture. The place of a human in Universe is also a favorite topic. Long night talk.

Again, not everybody drinks vodka in Russia. I don't. Never did. My father doesn't. My grandfathers and relatives don't'.

I heard Putin also doesn't drink much. Some wine during American visits. He prefers judo. That man in hospital maybe was sober.

Anyway. In a company he bet he can put a light bulb into his mouth. This is why I say: Maybe.

So, bulb gets in. It's it.

Stuck.

It turns: it is easy to put a bulb into mouth, but it is difficult to get it out. The muscles locked in. Trismus. (Trismus is condition when your masseter muscle spasms. It happens in people with tetanus. Masseter muscle is muscle that clench your jaws).

I actually do not know how to explain it exactly.

It seems there are some anatomical and physiological reasons.

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Lets talk about 1969 for one second, Viet Nam, Flower Power, free love, a new generation, my generation, we thought we would live forever, and we didn’t trust any one over thirty. I was right there in Hait Ashbury. I know younger generations since then have envied our time and they should, it was life! Jimi Hendrix’s guitar was screaming “All Along The Watchtower” and we still had Elvis too! Well, I am a baby bomer and want some of it back. Yes, I am young for 55 but I can see what’s coming around corner for me and my fellow hippies from 1969 (If they are still alive). And it isn’t pretty. No matter what generation your from, just stop and imagine for one moment what it would be like to have your youth back. Have you ever noticed how time flys like a jet airplane. Something has got to be done and we are going to do it right here in labs at Gen Cell Cures.

How are we going to find cure for old age?