Andy Walker's Blog: Andy Walker's Super You Notes, page 4
June 22, 2016
Death is curable: Don’t let you children suffer the pain of burying you
It really makes me sad when I see people on Facebook lamenting the loss of parents or family members to illness or even old age. Longevity scientists are treating death as a non-inevitable condition that is ‘curable” using preventative medicine. And cryonicists are working to cure it after it happens.
We explore this in our book which has an extensive chapter (CH08) on the coming revolution in Hyper Longevity. Be sure to check it out when you pick up the book.
Don’t let your children lose you to death. Today it’s a choice but you’ll need to act today to beat it. Read about it in Super You: http://superyou.link/book
June 21, 2016
Super You Quote: Smart skin is coming for artificial limbs…
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June 16, 2016
Andy is interviewed on The Feed on SiriusXM Radio by AmberMac and MichaelB
Super You author Andy Walker discusses how to hack yourself on The Feed on SiriusXM Radio with hosts AmberMac and Michael Bancroft.
Here’s the show below.
Revolutionary “nanosugar” lowers sugar intake without sacrificing flavor
What if you could indulge in your favorite sugary foods without worrying about your blood sugar levels spiking, gaining weight, or being diagnosed with any of the common sugar-induced health issues, such as type ll diabetes? It may be possible in the very near future.
Could nanosugar eradicate obesity one day?An Israeli company, DouxMatok, is currently developing a new kind of sugar that cuts the sugar content of any food by 25% to 55% without artificial sweeteners. So, the sweet foods you love, taste the same but with less of the damaging health effects. Cupcakes for breakfast!
DouxMatok’s sugar is made from nano particles of food-grade sand that are coated in glucose and sucrose. Watch the video below to learn more about this sweet invention.
And, if you like the idea of new tools that help you manage your blood sugar (and live better and longer), you’ll want to pay close attention to Chapter 3 of Super You. You’ll learn about a brilliant nano-sized device that monitors your blood sugar levels and shuts off your appetite when they get to high.
June 13, 2016
Grow new human organs inside a pig? Yes, it’s now possible
A pig like this could have a replacement organ grown from your skin cells inside itIf you needed an organ, would you be ok with getting one grown from your own DNA, except inside a pig? Besides the inevitable bacon jokes, this is serious business. Researchers are on the brink of being able to to grow human organs inside pig embryos, from stem cells made with a patient’s skin cells. The controversial experiments hope to produce organs completely compatible with the patient, with no risk of rejection by a patient’s body.
May 29, 2016
The Vatican calls about designer babies
In Chapter 2 of Super You,(Baby Science: How to Conceive a Tennis Star and Other Procreative Miracles), we look extensively at baby science , and baby making. We interviewed Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg of the Fertility Institutes in Los Angelese and he explained what happened when he started to look at offering trait selection to parents for their children. Steinberg’s clinic already offers gender selection and after researching albinism he identified the genetic trains for eye color. He intended to offer trait selection such as eye color, hair color and texture (curly vs. straight) and eventually traits such as athleticism. (He also sees a future where he could offer genetic disease screening that produce children who aren’t encumbered by illnesses past through via parent DNA.)
As you would imagine the media jumped on the story and then came the protests and crazies. One day in the midst of all the controversy, the Vatican called Steinberg.
You can read what happened on p. 58 in the book.
Nanobots in your brain: Will you use them to connect to Google with your thoughts?
In our book Super You, we explore the very real possibility of of connecting your brain to the Internet so that you can use the power of the Cloud to expand your ability to access information. This would likely be done using really tiny swimming robots that are the size of blood cells. They would swim in your blood stream and help you brain connect to the Internet. Likely they would be made with your own genetic material so that your body would not reject them.
Read more about this starting page 200 Chapter 5 — The Human Computer: How to Rewire and Turbo-Boost Your Ape Brain
This technology will likely be possible within 20 years. Would you connect your brain to Google? Tell us in the comments below…
May 24, 2016
Cotton Candy Machine Inspires Machine to Create Artificial Organs
A cotton candy machine is the inspiration for a new device that could print replacement human organsA common machine is behind a new process that could potentially lead to the creation of replacement artificial livers, kidneys and other essential human organs. You’ve seen it before at fairs, festivals and even birthday parties: It’s the cotton candy machine.
When scientist Leon Bellan, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Vanderbilt University, got the inspiration as a graduate student. He was studying how nanoscale fibers were created using electrospinning. The technique uses a very high voltage to produce a fiber-forming jet that deposits nanofibers in a mat on a surface.
“When describing this mat, people often use the analogy of silly string, cheese whiz, or cotton candy,” he told Bioscience Technology.
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May 21, 2016
Video: The in-ear universal translator is here
If you have been waiting for the babelfish (a universal translator) from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
, then wait no longer, because it has a arrived from Waverly Labs. Although it’s not a fish, but it does go in your ear. It’s called the Pilot.
The babelfish, a universal translator, from the book Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.The Pilot comes with 2 earpieces. Two people speak in real time and in the other person’s ear the sentence is spoken in their native language. So far it works on European languages – English, French, Spanish, German. But there are more coming. Expected to retail for about $250, but you know the price will come down.
It’s going to change the way we travel and relate to those that don’t speak our own language. Amazing!
(Thanks to Peter Adler for the tip!)
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May 16, 2016
How to revive a dead brain
Researchers don’t know how to revive brain dead humans, but they are sure going to learn a lot in the process in a clinical trial aimed at reviving comatose patients.
Biotech Bioquark is recruiting 20 patients who have been clinically deemed brain dead from severe traumatic brain injury. Using cutting-edge treatments that include stem cells, bioactive molecules, brain and spinal cord stimulation — the researchers hope to revive parts of the patients’ basic brain functions, with the objective of returning the ability for the patient to breathe on their own.
