{"id":74535,"date":"2017-12-16T10:45:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T18:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/silicon-valleys-immortalists-will-help-us-all-stay-healthy"},"modified":"2017-12-17T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:00:19","slug":"silicon-valleys-immortalists-will-help-us-all-stay-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/silicon-valleys-immortalists-will-help-us-all-stay-healthy","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley\u2019s Immortalists Will Help Us All Stay Healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/silicon-valleys-immortalists-will-help-us-all-stay-healthy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All over Silicon Valley and the regions that imitate it, executives follow weird revitalization fads. They think the code of aging can be hacked and death made optional. Daniel Gross, a partner at Y Combinator, fasts enthusiastically\u2014and encourages others to do so\u2014because he believes it will extend his life. Inventor Ray Kurzweil swallows 100 supplements a day for the same reason, presumably so he\u2019ll live long enough to be uploaded into the singularity, circa 2045.<\/p>\n<p>But you don\u2019t have to be a prophet of posthumanism to wish for a few more good years. I\u2019ve followed my own antiaging routines: For a time I ate 30 percent fewer calories than recommended, and I now starve myself for 16 of every 24 hours. And while there\u2019s certainly plenty of folly in the tech elite\u2019s quest for immortality, I\u2019m glad they\u2019ve embarked on it\u2014for reasons that go beyond sheer entertainment value.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/silicon-valleys-immortalists-will-help-us-all-stay-healthy\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/silicon-valleys-immortalists-wil...y-healthy\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All over Silicon Valley and the regions that imitate it, executives follow weird revitalization fads. They think the code of aging can be hacked and death made optional. Daniel Gross, a partner at Y Combinator, fasts enthusiastically\u2014and encourages others to do so\u2014because he believes it will extend his life. Inventor Ray Kurzweil swallows 100 supplements [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,2018,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-ray-kurzweil","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74535","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74549,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74535\/revisions\/74549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}