A theory I’ve heard is that he was googling his own name and stumbled upon Werner Syndrome, sending him down a rabbit hole that’s forever changed his path in life:
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If that’s not true your guess is as good as mine.
That's a perfect cosmic irony that "Werner syndrome" involves premature aging, when Lucas's whole shtick is that his gradual aging (like cheese and wine, dontchaknow, which, since you eat, means you have to diddle Lucas's skittle!) renders him uniquely perfect.
Does anyone remember what he wrote on one of those lovenotes, perhaps the Starbucks one? He said men his age "automatically become perfect fathers". He really believes that.
Lucas also has repeated multiple times that nobody, not even the scientists who create his beloved telomere research, have ever read through a complete study.
He gets very heated about this, arguing as if with the air (as he does) to tell his haters that if they claim to have read studies in their entirety, they're lying. No one could read that much.
Once again, note that Lucas's own limited abilities (in this case, his clear difficulty with both reading comprehension and his oft-stated dislike of reading, at all) have formed his entire metric for average behavior.
He does this quite often. Anything he doesn't do, or is unwilling to do, is impossible, and if people claim to have done things Lucas can't or won't they're liars with no proof.
Girlfriends and wives, for example: because he has never had a serious relationship, Lucas believes anyone who says they are in one is lying. The fact that this assertion contradicts his claims of seeing relationshipped couples everywhere doesn't seem to distress him.
If Lucas can't do it, it's impossible.