{"id":246534,"date":"2026-11-04T18:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T00:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/a-cardiologists-case-for-cryonics"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T00:05:24","slug":"a-cardiologists-case-for-cryonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/a-cardiologists-case-for-cryonics","title":{"rendered":"A Cardiologist\u2019s Case for Cryonics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2421164\/episodes\/20018035-a-cardiologist-s-case-for-cryonics-dr-cristina-leport?client_source=twitter_card&player_type=full_screen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Daniel Walters sits down with Dr. Cristina LePort, a cardiologist with 45 years in medicine, co-founder of the biotech company Genescient, and author of the new medical and political thriller Defrosted. This past June, AARP ran her essay \u201cI\u2019m a Cardiologist and I Plan to Be Cryogenically Frozen,\u201d putting cryonics in front of one of the largest readerships in America. Cristina talks about arriving in New York with almost no English, switching specialties in her late 40s, the fruit flies in her garage that live six times longer than normal, and why after decades of keeping patients alive, she decided cryonics was the only rational response to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Daniel Walters sits down with Dr. Cristina LePort, a cardiologist with 45 years in medicine, co-founder of the biotech company Genescient, and author of the new medical and political thriller Defrosted. This past June, AARP ran her essay \u201cI\u2019m a Cardiologist and I Plan to Be Cryogenically Frozen,\u201d putting cryonics in front [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2017,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cryonics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246534","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=246534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}