{"id":102787,"date":"2020-02-24T18:02:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T02:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-ultra-rich-are-investing-in-companies-trying-to-reverse-aging-is-it-going-to-work"},"modified":"2020-02-24T18:02:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T02:02:22","slug":"the-ultra-rich-are-investing-in-companies-trying-to-reverse-aging-is-it-going-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/the-ultra-rich-are-investing-in-companies-trying-to-reverse-aging-is-it-going-to-work","title":{"rendered":"The ultra-rich are investing in companies trying to reverse aging. Is it going to work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-ultra-rich-are-investing-in-companies-trying-to-reverse-aging-is-it-going-to-work.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t defeat death, what if you could postpone it, or at least postpone the diseases commonly associated with getting old?<\/p>\n<p>Many people, especially the ultra-wealthy in Silicon Valley, are investing money into companies trying to answer exactly those questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/quotes\/?symbol=AMZN\">Amazon<\/a> CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/jeff-bezos\/\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> and billionaire <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/quotes\/?symbol=PYPL\">PayPal<\/a> co-founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2014\/10\/06\/peter-thiel.html\">Peter Thiel<\/a> have both invested in South San Francisco-based <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/quotes\/?symbol=UBX\">Unity Biotechnology<\/a>, a company whose mission is to \u201cextend human healthspan, the period in one\u2019s life unburdened by the disease of aging.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can\u2019t defeat death, what if you could postpone it, or at least postpone the diseases commonly associated with getting old? Many people, especially the ultra-wealthy in Silicon Valley, are investing money into companies trying to answer exactly those questions. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel have both invested in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}