Longevity Poll: How Long Would You Want to Live?
Weekly longevity poll: how long would you want to live? Vote once, and see the results next week on the blog.
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My Public Longevity Database at 71: Every Supplement, Workout and Blood Test I Track
At 71 I track every supplement, workout, blood test and change I make on public pages. Here is where to find each one, and how tracking keeps me consistent.
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Garlic for Longevity at 71: What the Research Says About Living Longer
Garlic extended lifespan in mice and worms, is linked to longer lives in people over 80, and lowers blood pressure. Here is why I take 500 mg of aged garlic extract every day at 71.
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L-Theanine at 71: Calm Without Sedation
Why I take 400 mg of L-Theanine every night at 71, what three studies actually show about sleep and stress, and why I chose it over another sedative.
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What My Longevity Protocol Actually Costs at 71
Every supplement, every shake, every blood test, my DNA test and the MRI I booked, with the real numbers: about $52 a day, $1,580 a month, and what is actually food I would buy anyway.
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Plastic-Free Toothbrush at 71: Why I Put Boar Bristles on My Sonicare
I swapped the nylon head on my Sonicare for boar bristles on a bamboo base. Why I did it, what the evidence actually supports, what it does not, and the downsides nobody mentions.
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Ginger at 71: One Of The Newest Things in My Stack
Ginger is the newest thing on my supplement list at 71 — 1,000 mg a day, added because my blood pressure has been sitting in the Elevated band. Here is what the research actually shows, what it does not, and what I have noticed so far.
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I Built My Own Blood Pressure and Exercise App at 71
I got tired of losing the scrap of paper, so I built my own private blood pressure and exercise tracker that runs on my phone. Here are both screens, what each one does, and what building it taught me.
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Why I Am Paying Cash for a Full Body MRI at 71
No doctor ordered it and no insurer will touch it, so I am paying out of pocket for a whole body MRI at 71. Here is where I am going, what it costs, why I am doing it, and the honest case against it.
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Everything I Do to Reach 200 Is in a Free PDF. Almost Nobody Knows.
Fifteen pages with every supplement, dose, sleep rule and blood marker I track at 71. It is free, it always will be, and hardly anyone knows it exists.
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Interval Walking at 71: How I Do HIIT Without Leaving My Wife Behind
Kathy and I walk 1.8 miles every evening and I was not giving that up to train harder. So I built a version of interval walking that keeps me beside her: two minutes flat out, walk back to her, one minute together, repeat. Plus what the research found about leg strength.
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My Best Friend Asked What My Top Five Supplements Are. I Take Over 25 and Could Not Answer.
My best friend called and asked what my top five supplements would be. I take over 25 things every morning and had never once put them in order. Here is what I told him, and the two I had to think hard about.
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Tru Niagen at 71: Why I Ordered the 1,000 mg Dose
I ordered Tru Niagen Pro at the clinical-strength dose, and I want to say up front what the research does and does not show. NR reliably raises NAD+. Whether that makes a healthy 71-year-old better off is a different question, and it is not settled.
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Blueprint Cocoa Review at 71: A Year of Cocoa in My Coffee
I have put a scoop of Blueprint cocoa in my first coffee every morning for almost a year, after seeing it in Bryan Johnson’s protocol. Here is what the largest trial ever run on cocoa flavanols found, why heavy metal testing matters more with cocoa than almost anything else, and what I have actually noticed.
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Weight Loss and Divorce: What Really Happens to a Marriage After Big Weight Loss
A headline says weight loss drugs are driving a 50% jump in divorce. I lost 168 pounds and stayed married, so I read the actual study. The part everyone misses: the relationships at risk are themselves one of the best-evidenced longevity interventions there is.
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I Am Testing My Biological Age Again — This Time With Methylation
TruDiagnostic sent me the TruAge + TruHealth kit. One finger prick, 180+ biomarkers, eleven separate organ ages, and a telomere estimate that will second-guess everything I have been taking. Then I interview the founder.
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Qitone Review at 71: Seven Months of Ketones in My Coffee
I have put a scoop of Qitone in my coffee every morning for seven months after seeing half a room at DaVinci 50 doing it. My blood ketones are up. I have felt nothing. Here is the honest review, including what the research does and does not show for someone my age.
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What Is Longevity Escape Velocity? Aubrey de Grey’s Big Idea, Explained at 71
Longevity escape velocity is the point where medicine adds more than a year of life for every year that passes. Here is what Aubrey de Grey actually proposed, what the mouse studies show so far, and why the timing matters more at 71.
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The Pill Organizer I Use for Supplements at 71
Sorting bottles every morning was costing me consistency, and travel was worse. The organizer Kathy and I both use now — and the one feature that actually solved it: each day pulls off and goes in your pocket.
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I Took the Last Plastic Out of My Coffee. Here’s What I Bought.
Hot water plus plastic plus every single morning is a bad combination, and my old brewer still had plastic in it. Here is the glass, steel and wood setup that replaced it, what the research on microplastics actually shows, and the one trade-off nobody selling a metal filter will mention.
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