Health CEO and Biohacker Found Dead in Washington DC Facedown in Flotation Tank

Health CEO and Biohacker Found Dead in Washington DC Facedown in Flotation Tank
By Erin Elizabeth -
April 30, 2018



Aaron Traywick, CEO of Ascendance Biomedical and a figure in the biohacking and transhumanist movements, was found dead this weekend in a flotation tank in Washington DC, according to Tristan Roberts. He was 28 years old.
Biohacking is a form of science research that hopes to push medical technology without invoking academic, state, or big corporate actors. It tends to heavily emphasize independent and experimentation. Transhumanism is a movement that seak to evolve the human species beyond its natural limits, primarily through technology.
“Floating” is meditation method where an individual places themselves into a sound-proof pod filled with salt water at body temperature, which gives the sensation of floating in empty space. The practice is meant to promote a state of deep meditation.
I’ve done it a few times, including with Dr Mercola. It was fun and easy and the tanks are usually very large. You can sit up and are very buoyant (float very easily) I didn’t feel claustrophobic AT all. Millions worldwide use floating tanks with no problems.
“He was found face down,” Roberts explained. Other details were not immediately available.

Sit-Down Interview

News2Share’s last sit-down interview with Traywick took place February 2nd. Although included as part of a livestream profiling a bio-hacking lab, the raw interview was previously unreleased:



https://youtu.be/p6PBarqWMBE

Biohacking and DIY Gene-Therapy

News2Share first covered Traywick’s work in October, when he provided a DIY HIV gene-editing substance to Tristan Roberts, who self-injected it.
“Essentially 1%, and really even less than 1%, of persons currently with HIV, for reasons that are aren’t really clearly known, these persons developed a genetic immunity once they contracted the HIV,” explained Traywick. His mission, he said, is to share the 1%’s immunity “with the 99%.”
Results in that experiment are currently inconclusive.



https://youtu.be/jpYE3cUogh0

The following February, Traywick publicly injected himself with a substance he co-created as a gene-editing cure and immunization against herpes.
“The procedure itself is a simple one,” Traywick told News2Share. “If my herpes goes away, and the vaccine remains detectable in the blood upon subsequent lab analysis, we know it works as a cure. For Andreas, so long as the same happens, and he still doesn’t have herpes, then we have 90 percent of the data necessary to prove the vaccine works.”



https://youtu.be/GR_jWexoA_Y

The Food and Drug Administration responded with a thinly-veiled swipe that, while avoiding specific mention of Traywick’s experiment, expressed concern about the safety of self-administered gene therapies and advised consumers to refrain from undergoing treatments not approved or studied “under appropriate regulatory oversight.”
Production specialist Machiavelli Davis regarded the absence of a corporate or academic hierarchy as a strength, not a weakness. “Working with a tight knit team of passionate friends is also a far better experience than just being brought together because of a corporate job,” Davis said, noting that each of the team’s members had prior experience with self-experimentation.


Thanks to Erin at: https://www.healthnutnews.com