{"id":27920,"date":"2016-07-16T20:32:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T03:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/silicon-valley-entrepreneurs-aim-to-hack-the-brain"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:35:58","slug":"silicon-valley-entrepreneurs-aim-to-hack-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/silicon-valley-entrepreneurs-aim-to-hack-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Aim To \u2018Hack\u2019 the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silicon-valley-entrepreneurs-aim-to-hack-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woo and other entrepreneurs are using fasts and other tricks to \u201chack\u201d their brain chemistry like they would a computer, hoping to give themselves an edge as they strive to dream up the next billion-dollar idea. Known by insiders as \u201cbiohacking,\u201d the push for cognitive self-improvement is gaining momentum in the Silicon Valley tech world, where workers face constant pressure to innovate and produce at the highest levels.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-tech-today.com\/news\/Entrepreneurs-Aim-To--Hack--the-Brain\/story.xhtml?story_id=10000AFL3BYG\">http:\/\/www.sci-tech-today.com\/news\/Entrepreneurs-Aim-To--Hac...000AFL3BYG<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woo and other entrepreneurs are using fasts and other tricks to \u201chack\u201d their brain chemistry like they would a computer, hoping to give themselves an edge as they strive to dream up the next billion-dollar idea. Known by insiders as \u201cbiohacking,\u201d the push for cognitive self-improvement is gaining momentum in the Silicon Valley tech world, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,19,34,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-chemistry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27920","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=27920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66900,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27920\/revisions\/66900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}