{"id":10146,"date":"2015-03-13T10:57:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=10146"},"modified":"2015-07-09T12:04:03","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:04:03","slug":"self-less-god-created-man-man-created-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2015\/03\/self-less-god-created-man-man-created-immortality.html","title":{"rendered":"Self\/Less: &#8216;God Created Man, Man Created Immortality&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"SELFLESS - Official Trailer - In Theaters Summer 2015\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/71fWtJXEI0Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What would it really feel like to feel immortal?\u00a0Phoenix\u00a0Biogenic\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">offers this once in a lifetime offer where the new body will be genetically mastered to perfection. Only a select few are chosen to be the perfect human, and with an activation of a phone I opted in for this interactive fictional experience, and will share it as it unfolds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2015\/03\/photo-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-10147 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2015\/03\/photo-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"219\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists and researchers believe that it might not be a fantasy, as they\u00a0discovered that telomeres are a big factor in our aging. Telomeres are caps at the end of strands of our DNA that protect these chromosomes. They are described as plastic tips&#8211; like we have on shoelaces and\u00a0fray contributing to us aging, according to T.A. Sciences, a company founded in 2002, which is studying the phenomena at the cellular level and\u00a0working to reverse this cycle. 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