The 200 Year Life Project: Everything I’m Doing to Live to 200
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The short version: The Ultrahuman Ring tracks my sleep stages, heart rate variability, body temperature and movement, with no screen. It showed me that afternoon and evening coffee was hurting my deep sleep. After I moved caffeine to mornings only, my deep sleep rose to over 1.25 hours a night, and my sleep efficiency climbed…
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The short version: I learned two things were wrong with my coffee. Plastic pods force near-boiling water through plastic, which can leach microplastics into your cup. And the U.S. has almost no legal limits on mold toxins in coffee. My fix is organic beans tested for mold, pesticides and heavy metals, ground fresh, and brewed…
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I drank apple cider vinegar in chamomile tea every morning for months, and it fixed my indigestion. Then a doctor told me to stop, and to stop right away. Here is what he said about my teeth, and what I take now instead.
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I was 70 when I set the goal: be the first person to live to 200. Three packs a day for twenty years, over 350 pounds at my heaviest, five hours of sleep a night. Here is where the project started and what I changed first.
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I got to three hundred and fifty two pounds. Then I asked a flight attendant for a seat belt extender, out loud, in front of the row. Here is what happened next.
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My wife emailed the Mayor of Arlington without telling me. A few weeks later he read a proclamation into the City Council record naming March 1st after me.
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I was in ninth grade, the ticket cost two dollars, and I assumed Alice Cooper was a girl. That night started ten years of going to every concert I could get to. Here is the full list.
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I was not cast in Born on the Fourth of July. I heard about it on the radio, drove downtown in a suit, and walked in with the Secret Service agents. There were supposed to be twelve of us.
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