{"id":221967,"date":"2025-09-16T11:14:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/sam-altmans-longevity-startup-is-testing-a-pill-for-a-younger-brain"},"modified":"2025-09-16T11:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:14:41","slug":"sam-altmans-longevity-startup-is-testing-a-pill-for-a-younger-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/sam-altmans-longevity-startup-is-testing-a-pill-for-a-younger-brain","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman\u2019s longevity startup is testing a pill for a younger brain"},"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\/_oxx-cXDZbg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve just hopped on a video call with the CEO of Retro Biosciences, the Sam Altman-backed longevity company, when I mention it\u2019s quite hot.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Betts-LaCroix takes my passing comment as a cue to muse on the wonders of air conditioning, and how energy and heat were once synonymous \u2014 until they weren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>As a multi-hyphenate scientist, entrepreneur, and once-inventor of the world\u2019s smallest computer, Betts-LaCroix is excited by paradigm change.<\/p>\n<p>At the helm of what is essentially Altman\u2019s playground for experimenting with pushing the limits of the human lifespan, Betts-LaCroix is hoping to engineer the same shift that air conditioning brought to hot summer days for your brain and body. Ideally, one day, decouple aging from decline and disease.<\/p>\n<p>The experimental memory pill works by clearing out \u201cgunk in the cells\u201d linked to Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s, Betts-LaCroix said. If the pill works, it will restart stalled autophagy processes in the body, cleaning up damage, \u201cespecially in the brain cells,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, other new Alzheimer\u2019s drugs, like Eisai\u2019s Leqembi and Eli Lilly\u2019s Kisunla, slow down cognitive decline by flushing out sticky amyloid plaques that are a hallmark of the disease.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/sam-altmans-longevity-startup-is-testing-a-pill-for-a-younger-brain\">Continue reading \u201cSam Altman\u2019s longevity startup is testing a pill for a younger brain\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just hopped on a video call with the CEO of Retro Biosciences, the Sam Altman-backed longevity company, when I mention it\u2019s quite hot. Joe Betts-LaCroix takes my passing comment as a cue to muse on the wonders of air conditioning, and how energy and heat were once synonymous \u2014 until they weren\u2019t. As a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221967","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}