‘The Future Loves You’ review: Could a brain freeze cure all diseases – indirectly?
Patients examined at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona
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The future loves you
Ariel Zheleznikov-Johnston (Penguin, November 28)
Much of medicine today focuses on prolonging life by no more than a few months. Cancer and Alzheimer’s drugs touted as effective often do little more than buy people more time. Ariel Zheleznikov-Johnston asks: What if we could send terminally ill people to be saved by the medicine of the future.
It’s an interesting question, and one that Zheleznikov-Johnston, a neuroscientist, asks in his book, The future loves…