{"id":171698,"date":"2023-09-10T04:22:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T09:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-immortals-meet-the-billionaires-forking-out-for-eternal-life"},"modified":"2023-09-10T04:22:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T09:22:50","slug":"the-immortals-meet-the-billionaires-forking-out-for-eternal-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-immortals-meet-the-billionaires-forking-out-for-eternal-life","title":{"rendered":"The Immortals: meet the billionaires forking out for eternal life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-immortals-meet-the-billionaires-forking-out-for-eternal-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Conboys\u2019 statement on plasma dilution is important:<\/p>\n<p>The pair are quick to add that this isn\u2019t going to have a Benjamin Button effect, and the research \u201cwasn\u2019t geared to make old people young\u201d \u2013 even if this idea is being bio-hacked around the world. \u201cIt was clear that there were improvements after a couple of procedures,\u201d says Irina. \u201c[But] it\u2019s not really healthy or rejuvenating to drain somebody of 70% of their blood and replace it with something.\u201d She warns people to wait until more research is done.<\/p>\n<p>Still, they believe that in the next five years we will see huge advancements in prolonging life treatments \u2013 including taking a pill instead of getting blood, and a \u201cfountain of middle age\u201d. \u201cPeople will be able to have this high quality, productive life where they are healthy for many more decades,\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A fascinating and often terrifying new podcast delves into the lengths \u2018longevity superstars\u2019 will go to make 90 the new 50, from swapping blood with the young to designing the first \u2018post-humans\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conboys\u2019 statement on plasma dilution is important: The pair are quick to add that this isn\u2019t going to have a Benjamin Button effect, and the research \u201cwasn\u2019t geared to make old people young\u201d \u2013 even if this idea is being bio-hacked around the world. \u201cIt was clear that there were improvements after a couple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171698","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\/171698","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\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}