{"id":103371,"date":"2020-03-06T08:08:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/meet-the-families-biohacking-their-bodies-to-live-healthier-and-longer"},"modified":"2020-03-06T08:08:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T16:08:19","slug":"meet-the-families-biohacking-their-bodies-to-live-healthier-and-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/meet-the-families-biohacking-their-bodies-to-live-healthier-and-longer","title":{"rendered":"Meet the families \u2018biohacking\u2019 their bodies to live healthier\u2026 and longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-families-biohacking-their-bodies-to-live-healthier-and-longer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 5pm in the Farrant household and Jack, six, and Thomas, four, are currently manifesting their desires in the form of Lego. To an outsider this looks like two small children playing with toys, but their mother Catherine proudly points out that Jack has built a yacht \u2013 something he is helping his family to acquire via visualisation exercises.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Dinner\u2019s ready,\u2019 calls out the nanny. In line with the family\u2019s Paleo diet \u2013 of anti-inflammatory, natural foods \u2013 they have octopus cooked with lemongrass, and fish-bone broth. \u2018Yes, my favourite,\u2019 cries Jack happily, while his mum explains exactly what the broth is: \u2018It\u2019s an age-old elixir that\u2019s made from boiling wild bones. It\u2019s very high in iodine, which most of us are deficient in.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>After dinner, the children can continue to express their creativity, or watch some television \u2013 though if they\u2019re going to do the latter after 6pm they need to put on their \u2018blue-light blockers\u2019, glasses with amber lenses to block the blue light of technology from affecting their sleep. \u2018We also do red-light therapy,\u2019 explains Catherine, pointing to a red dinosaur lamp in the boys\u2019 bedroom. \u2018It\u2019s to help the body\u2019s natural rhythms of sunset with exposure to red colours at night, and blue and white light in the morning.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s 5pm in the Farrant household and Jack, six, and Thomas, four, are currently manifesting their desires in the form of Lego. To an outsider this looks like two small children playing with toys, but their mother Catherine proudly points out that Jack has built a yacht \u2013 something he is helping his family to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103371","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}