{"id":92578,"date":"2019-06-24T05:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/how-to-live-forever-meet-the-extreme-life-extensionists"},"modified":"2019-06-24T05:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T12:42:25","slug":"how-to-live-forever-meet-the-extreme-life-extensionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/how-to-live-forever-meet-the-extreme-life-extensionists","title":{"rendered":"How to live forever: meet the extreme life-extensionists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A very good article on the life and ideas of life extensionists\/immortalists\/longevity\u2019s: \u201c\u2026 Strole is now 70. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, a desert town. In the life-extensionist mode, he avoids dairy and rarely touches bread, though he devours a whole heap of other things. Recently his diet has included pills, branded \u201dCognitive\u201d, which he takes twice a day and claims have all sorts of nourishing effects on his brain. (What good is maintaining the body if not the mind?) The pills are part of a self-directed anti-ageing process that requires a lot of swallowing. On some days, Strole takes 70 supplements, including a tablet that \u201denergises the mitochondria\u201d (mitochondria produce energy) and whose effects resemble \u201da shot of coffee, minus the jitters\u201d, as well as vitamins, multi-nutrients and metformin, a diabetes drug that has become so popular among life extensionists that one referred to it as \u201dthe aspirin of anti-ageing\u201d. In the early mornings, when the Arizona air is still brisk, he takes a cold dip in his pool to shock his immune system into better function, and at some point or another he lies face-up on an electromagnetic mat that whirs silently against his body and \u201dopens up the veins\u201d, and engages in a breathing regime that, he says, \u201dbalances the hormones\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Some sleep on electromagnetic mats, others pop up to 150 pills a day. But are \u2018life extensionists\u2019 any closer to finding the key to longevity? Alex Moshakis meets some of the people determined to become immortal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very good article on the life and ideas of life extensionists\/immortalists\/longevity\u2019s: \u201c\u2026 Strole is now 70. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, a desert town. In the life-extensionist mode, he avoids dairy and rarely touches bread, though he devours a whole heap of other things. Recently his diet has included pills, branded \u201dCognitive\u201d, which he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92578","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}