A slightly amusing story about when a seminar speaker came to town: after his talk a bunch of us went to have lunch at a food court near my school. In town were also some people I know who were visiting from a somewhat nearby school (70+ miles away, by car). Anyways, the guy who co-organizes the seminar with me from a nearby school (less than 5 miles away) was also at the table. This co-organizer is maybe 30 to 35 years old, whereas I, the seminar speaker, and the guys visiting from that “nearby school” are all over 40 (some of us are over 50).
Now, this co-organizer is somebody I’ve talked to before about aging. I mentioned to him once a year or two ago that I was “over 50”, and he was surprised, thinking I was in my 40s. I told him I’m really into various things to slow signs of aging (exercise, supplements, etc.). He gave the impression of feigning interest, wanting to make it seem important (though he really didn’t think it was, I could tell). Anyways, the conversation about this ended quickly and we moved on to talking about research…
Back to the “seminar lunch”: me, my co-organizer, the speaker, and one of the “over 50” guys from that “nearby school” were sitting at the same table, when my co-organizer mentioned “supplements”. I think he had a vague idea that the speaker might have found it interesting; but mostly just wanted to add a new topic to the conversation. To his surprise, the three of us “over 40” (and two of us “over 50”) started swapping supplement stories. The guy from the “nearby school” even started talking about David Sinclair, unprompted (he apparently has read Sinclair’s book, and follows him on social media). The seminar speaker apparently has his own supplement stack, but was interested in adding some things to it.
Anyways, this completely shocked my seminar co-organizer. I told him, “See! Once you’re over 40 you’ll be interested in it, too. You’re too young to care about these things right now; but you’ll change your tune when you get a little older!”
(Oh, I should also mention that the seminar speaker asked him [co-organizer] to take down on his phone all the supplements we discussed, and to send it to him as an email so he could study it later.)
