{"id":132430,"date":"2021-12-14T22:24:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/tech-bro-thinks-hes-close-to-cheating-death"},"modified":"2021-12-14T22:24:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T06:24:31","slug":"tech-bro-thinks-hes-close-to-cheating-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/tech-bro-thinks-hes-close-to-cheating-death","title":{"rendered":"Tech Bro Thinks He\u2019s Close to Cheating Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tech-bro-thinks-hes-close-to-cheating-death2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A stem cell researcher who founded his startup with the psychedelic-loving German billionaire Christian Angermayer, Peyer believes that aging is a disease that humans can fight with pharmaceuticals. He plans to prove it first by identifying disorders and diseases that mimic aging, such as those that cause loss of muscle mass, and then partner with researchers studying medicines for said diseases.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A bold proposal: that by 2050, a 70-year-old will look and feel like they\u2019re 50.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the gamble that 35-year-old James Peyer is taking with this Cambrian Biopharma \u201clongevity startup,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/bcaf26de-5a05-11ec-985a-09e80e25697e?shareToken=c5af92941c488275d131971e65233cdf\" class=\"\"><em>Times of London<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf our 100,000-year-plus history as a species, it\u2019s been for only about 75 years that these diseases of ageing have been the primary predators of humankind,\u201d he told the newspaper. \u201cWe are rapidly zeroing in on our biggest predators \u2014 diseases of [aging] \u2014 and figuring out how to beat them back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stem cell researcher who founded his startup with the psychedelic-loving German billionaire Christian Angermayer, Peyer believes that aging is a disease that humans can fight with pharmaceuticals. He plans to prove it first by identifying disorders and diseases that mimic aging, such as those that cause loss of muscle mass, and then partner with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132430","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\/132430","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\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}