{"id":2103,"date":"2011-08-31T05:47:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T12:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=2103"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:30:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:30:52","slug":"life-extension-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/life-extension-potential","title":{"rendered":"Life Extension Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-extension-potential.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The objective for the body and more specifically cells is to monitor its energy potential and well being just like we\u2019d monitor anything else with a modern <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Information_system\">information system<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Information_technology\">information technology<\/a> (IS\/IT).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apoptosis\">Apoptosis<\/a> is an intentional death of a cell that triggers a \u201cnatural\u201d death, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Necrosis\">Necrosis<\/a> is an unintentional death of a cell due to damage. While there are some inherent dangers with existing and making it as difficult today to avoid necrosis as it was yesterday, we can aim to scientifically identify apoptosis and manage it. Most of us are familiar with apoptosis, we call it cancer\u2026a phenomenon where cells don\u2019t know when to call it quits and we suffer as a result of the growth.<\/p>\n<p>The specific technology doesn\u2019t exist yet, but we require a mechanism to measure and regulate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitocondria\">mitochondrion<\/a> decisions on-demand. Let\u2019s get to work people! Is there a way that we could constantly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apoptosis#Mitochondrial_regulation\">monitor<\/a> mitochondrial regulation without losing blood regularly like a the annoying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationaboutdiabetes.com\/diabetic-testing\">finger prick<\/a> monitoring that diabetics have to currently endure.<\/p>\n<p>Lance Becker does a good job of further elaborating on this topic and charging us with a new objective of creating the technologies that will assist in life management and extension.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lance Becker: Modifying the Boundary between Life and Death\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/19098618?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objective for the body and more specifically cells is to monitor its energy potential and well being just like we\u2019d monitor anything else with a modern information system\/information technology (IS\/IT). Apoptosis is an intentional death of a cell that triggers a \u201cnatural\u201d death, Necrosis is an unintentional death of a cell due to damage. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,17],"tags":[345,318,222],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-sustainability","tag-death","tag-life-extension-tag","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","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\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70151,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions\/70151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}