{"id":27825,"date":"2016-07-13T15:01:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T22:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/brain-hacking-entrepreneurs-turn-to-fasting-and-smart-drugs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:39:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:39:20","slug":"brain-hacking-entrepreneurs-turn-to-fasting-and-smart-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/brain-hacking-entrepreneurs-turn-to-fasting-and-smart-drugs","title":{"rendered":"Brain \u2018hacking\u2019: Entrepreneurs turn to fasting and \u2018smart drugs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-hacking-entrepreneurs-turn-to-fasting-and-smart-drugs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The SV trend.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Employees at San Francisco startup Nootrobox don\u2019t eat on Tuesdays.<\/p>\n<p>The weekly fast isn\u2019t an extreme money-saving move by a scrappy, bootstrapping company. Instead, Nootrobox team members swear withholding food for 36 hours \u2014 they stop eating Monday night \u2014 improves their workplace focus and concentration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re actually super productive on Tuesdays,\u201d co-founder and CEO Geoffrey Woo said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard at first, but we literally adopted it as part of the company culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montereyherald.com\/article\/NF\/20160710\/BUSINESS\/160719992\">http:\/\/www.montereyherald.com\/article\/NF\/20160710\/BUSINESS\/160719992<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SV trend. Employees at San Francisco startup Nootrobox don\u2019t eat on Tuesdays. The weekly fast isn\u2019t an extreme money-saving move by a scrappy, bootstrapping company. Instead, Nootrobox team members swear withholding food for 36 hours \u2014 they stop eating Monday night \u2014 improves their workplace focus and concentration. \u201cWe\u2019re actually super productive on Tuesdays,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27825","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66930,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27825\/revisions\/66930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}