{"id":138556,"date":"2022-04-24T22:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-said-his-neuralink-brain-chip-could-help-treat-morbid-obesity-scientists-say-its-a-long-shot-but-not-an-impossibility"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:02:34","slug":"elon-musk-said-his-neuralink-brain-chip-could-help-treat-morbid-obesity-scientists-say-its-a-long-shot-but-not-an-impossibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/elon-musk-said-his-neuralink-brain-chip-could-help-treat-morbid-obesity-scientists-say-its-a-long-shot-but-not-an-impossibility","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk said his Neuralink brain chip could help treat morbid obesity. Scientists say it\u2019s a long shot \u2014 but not an impossibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YRvf00NooN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk believes his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/neuralink-elon-musk-microchips-brains-ai-2021-2?r=US&IR=T\">Neuralink<\/a> brain chip could help treat morbid obesity. Experts say the billionaire\u2019s dream isn\u2019t as far-fetched as it may seem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it is any more implausible than other claims for the potential of neurotechnology,\u201d Professor Andrew Jackson, an expert in neural interfaces at Newcastle University, told Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Musk made the suggestion in a TED <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YRvf00NooN8?t=1988\">interview<\/a> on April 14, thereby adding \u201cmorbid obesity\u201d to a growing list of ailments he believes Neuralink could help treat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk believes his Neuralink brain chip could help treat morbid obesity. Experts say the billionaire\u2019s dream isn\u2019t as far-fetched as it may seem. \u201cI don\u2019t think it is any more implausible than other claims for the potential of neurotechnology,\u201d Professor Andrew Jackson, an expert in neural interfaces at Newcastle University, told Insider. Musk made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138556","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=138556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}