Category: Longevity
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VO2 max is the single strongest predictor of how long you’ll live. Here’s how to actually improve it
There’s one number that predicts how long you’ll live better than your blood pressure, your LDL cholesterol, your fasting glucose, or your resting heart rate. It’s not a biomarker you get from a blood draw. Most people have never had it measured. Most doctors don’t test for it at all. That number is your VO2…
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Ashwagandha: the one adaptogen that actually has RCT data
The adaptogen category is mostly a mess. Rhodiola, holy basil, eleuthero — you’ll find them all in supplement stacks, sometimes alongside breathless claims about “resilience” and “adrenal support,” usually without a single well-designed human trial behind them. The term “adaptogen” itself isn’t a medical or pharmacological classification. It’s a marketing concept dressed in Soviet-era research…
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Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint: obsessive, extreme, and weirdly instructive
Bryan Johnson wakes up at 4:30 AM, eats his last meal before noon, and goes to bed at 8:30 PM. He hasn’t had an unplanned meal in years. Every bite of food is measured. He takes somewhere between 50 and 100 pills daily depending on which version of his protocol you’re reading. A team of…