{"id":219616,"date":"2025-08-07T20:04:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/liz-parrish-why-she-risked-everything-on-an-unproven-treatment"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:04:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:04:59","slug":"liz-parrish-why-she-risked-everything-on-an-unproven-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/liz-parrish-why-she-risked-everything-on-an-unproven-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Liz Parrish: Why She Risked Everything on an Unproven Treatment"},"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\/aB-3u_HthcM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What would you do if medicine offered no answers?<\/p>\n<p>Liz Parrish didn\u2019t wait for FDA approval. She became the first person in the world to take multiple gene therapies, using her own body to test a future that medicine wasn\u2019t ready for.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, she\u2019s taken 10 gene therapies, helped over 300 people treat conditions once considered untreatable, and challenged one of the biggest assumptions in healthcare:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 Should we treat aging the same way we treat disease?<\/p>\n<p>In this talk, Liz shares how her personal decision created ripple effects across the world \u2014 and why gene therapy may be the first real step toward extending not just health span, but lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>What you\u2019ll hear:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/liz-parrish-why-she-risked-everything-on-an-unproven-treatment\">Continue reading \u201cLiz Parrish: Why She Risked Everything on an Unproven Treatment\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would you do if medicine offered no answers? Liz Parrish didn\u2019t wait for FDA approval. She became the first person in the world to take multiple gene therapies, using her own body to test a future that medicine wasn\u2019t ready for. Since then, she\u2019s taken 10 gene therapies, helped over 300 people treat conditions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219616","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\/219616","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}