{"id":83112,"date":"2026-05-29T10:20:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83112"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:20:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:20:39","slug":"inside-putins-26-billion-quest-for-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/inside-putins-26-billion-quest-for-longevity\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Putin\u2019s $26 Billion Quest for Longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Wall Street Journal:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-11489317?width=700&amp;height=466\" alt=\"A young looking Vladimir Putin surrounded by gym equipment, health products, and medicines, acting like a looksmaxxer.\" width=\"308\" height=\"205\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0<a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/person\/vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"person\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0was captured\u00a0<a class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/china-hot-mic-xi-putin-kim-55a86f1a?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-type=\"link\">by a hot mic<\/a>\u00a0telling Xi Jinping that humans could achieve immortality by replacing their organs, some dismissed the exchange as eccentric small talk between aging autocrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1qg6i2u eku5yup0\" data-type=\"paragraph\">Like Silicon Valley billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman and Peter Thiel, Putin has long been fascinated with antiaging research. But in Russia, Putin\u2019s quest to stave off decline is now a state priority relying on methods as wide-ranging as organ printing, harvesting mini-pigs and exposure to ultralow temperatures.\u00a0Last month, Russia\u2019s government announced that scientists are developing a gene-therapy treatment aimed at slowing cellular aging as part of \u201cNew Health Preservation Technologies,\u201d Putin\u2019s $26 billion longevity initiative.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1780050039\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Inside Putin\u2019s $26 Billion Quest for Longevity\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Wall Street Journal: When\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0was captured\u00a0by a hot mic\u00a0telling Xi Jinping that humans could achieve immortality by replacing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83113,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83112\/revisions\/83113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}