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05Longevity — 4 articles

Longevity & Healthspan

Healthspan versus lifespan, muscle as a retirement asset, VO2 max as a mortality predictor, and why the fundamentals keep beating the biohacks in every dataset we have.

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Longevity
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Healthspan vs. Lifespan: Pick the Right Target

Adding years is the wrong goal if they arrive at the end, pre-broken. The real project is compressing the sick years into the smallest possible window.

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Longevity
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Muscle Is a Longevity Asset

Think of muscle less as vanity tissue and more as a retirement account, one that pays out in metabolism, mobility, and survivable bad luck.

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Longevity
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VO2 Max and the Long Game

Few numbers in medicine predict how long you'll live as strongly as your aerobic capacity. Unlike your birth year, this one is trainable.

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Longevity
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The Boring Fundamentals Still Beat the Biohacks

The gap between doing the basics and doing nothing is enormous; the gap between the basics and the frontier of biohacking is a rounding error, priced accordingly.

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