{"id":71324,"date":"2017-07-28T02:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T09:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/why-the-super-rich-are-ploughing-billions-into-the-booming-immortality-industry"},"modified":"2017-07-28T02:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T09:42:26","slug":"why-the-super-rich-are-ploughing-billions-into-the-booming-immortality-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/why-the-super-rich-are-ploughing-billions-into-the-booming-immortality-industry","title":{"rendered":"Why the super-rich are ploughing billions into the booming \u2018immortality industry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Imagine a world in which you\u2019re 90 years old and nowhere near middle-aged. An app on your phone has hacked your DNA code, so you know exactly when to go to the doctor to receive gene therapy to prevent all the diseases you don\u2019t yet have. A microchip in your skin sends out a signal if you\u2019re at risk of developing a wrinkle \u2014 so you step out of the sun and hotfoot it to your dermatologist. Every evening you sync your brain-mapping device with The Cloud, so even if you were caught up in a fatal accident you\u2019d still be able to cheat death \u2014 every detail of your life would simply be downloaded to one of the perfect silicon versions you\u2019d had made of yourself, ensuring you last until at least your 1,000th birthday.<\/p>\n

This may sound like science fiction but it could be your fate \u2014 provided you can afford it. If current research develops into medicine, in the London of the future the super-rich won\u2019t simply be able to buy the best things in life, they\u2019ll be able to buy life itself by transforming themselves into a bio-engineered super-race, capable of living, if not forever, then for vastly longer than the current UK life expectancy of 81 years.<\/p>\n

The science of turning back the clock has never been more advanced. In Boston, a drug capable of reversing half a lifetime of ageing in mice is about to be tested on humans in a medical trial monitored by NASA. NMN is a compound found naturally in broccoli which boosts levels of NAD, a protein involved in energy production that depletes as we get older. Professor David Sinclair, who headed up the initial research at Australia\u2019s University of New South Wales, doses himself with 500mg daily, and claims that he has already become more youthful. According to blood tests analysing the state of the 48-year-old\u2019s cells, prior to taking the pills Sinclair was in the same physical shape as a 57-year-old, but now he\u2019s \u201831.4\u2019.<\/p>\n

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