The Alcor Podcast
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at what's really happening at Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to advancing cryopreservation science and technology. Through candid monthly conversations with our researchers, medical team, and staff, we share the stories and science driving the world's leading cryonics organization forward.
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The podcast covers a range of topics centered around cryonics, including expansion strategies, research advancements, and member services. Specific episodes like 'Making Alcor Europe a Reality' delve into international expansion and fundraising efforts, while episodes like 'Big Changes at Alcor' focus on team growth and innovation in emergency response capabilities, bringing forward unique stories about the impact of their work on the community.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at what’s really happening at Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to advancing cryopreservation science and technology. Through candid monthly conversations with our researchers, medical team, and staff, we share the stories and science driving the world’s leading cryonics organization forward.
In this episode, Daniel Walters sits down with Dr. Cristina LePort, a cardiologist with 45 years in medicine, co-founder of the biotech company Genescient, and author of the new medical and political thriller Defrosted. This past June, AARP ran her essay “I’m a Cardiologist and I Plan to Be Cryogenically Frozen,” putting cryonics in front of one of the largest readerships in America. Cristina talks about arriving in New York with almost no English, switching specialties in her late 40s, the fruit flies in her garage that live six times longer than normal, and why after decades of keeping patients alive, she decided cryonics was the only rational response to death.
Additional Highlights:
- The aging conference where she first heard Alcor present
- Genescient’s long-lived fruit flies and why aging is a “soft sweep” of thousands of genes
- Staying healthy while signed up for cryonics
- Landing a pro-cryonics essay in AARP and what it took to get there
- From hated school essays to David Baldacci blurbs
- The cancer diagnosis that cemented her decision
- The story behind Defrosted and the world its hero wakes up in
- Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and why cryonicists lean toward reason over faith
- The reasons for dystopian narratives in science fiction
- Why a world that can revive you is more likely free than dystopian
Defrosted is available on Amazon in hardcover, Kindle and audiobook. If you enjoy it, please leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads. You can find more about Cristina and her other books at cristinaleport.com.
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